2011 ~ Blog of an Art Admirer

Monday

Norah Neilson Gray (1882-1931) British Painter

Norah Neilson Gray, Self-portrait, 1918

Norah Neilson Gray, Salopian Cup and Chinese Vase

Norah Neilson Gray, Little Brother 1920-22

Norah Neilson Gray, Little Boy with Oranges

Norah Neilson Gray, Half-Length Portrait of a Boy

William Merritt Chase, Park Bench

William Merritt Chase, Terrace at the Mall, Central Park

William Merritt Chase, Afternoon in the Park 1887

William Merritt Chase, Terrace Prospect Park

William Merritt Chase, A Bit of the Terrace

Anton Filkuka (1888-1957) Austrian Artist

Anton Filkuka, Jeune Fille Assise

Anton Filkuka, Portrait of the artist's daughter

Anton Filkuka

Anton Filkuka, Die Donau Beigreifenstein Im Frühling, 1942

Anton Filkuka

Barna Basilides (1903-1967) Hungarian Painter, Graphic Artist, Tapestry Designer

Barna Basilides

Barna Basilides, 1938-40

Barna Basilides, Ballerina Melinda Ottrubay

Barna Basilides, Balaton Beach, 1950, detail

Barna Basilides

Barna Basilides, Still Life 1943

Barna Basilides

Barna Basilides, 1959

Guido Cadorin (1892-1976) Italian Artist

Guido Cadorin, (Deco. Art in Italy. 1919-1939)

Guido Cadorin, Le Tabacchine (detail)

Guido Cadorin

Guido Cadorin, Portrait of Baroness Fanny Winspeare, 1919; Ritratto di mio figlio, 1941

"The artist worked for sixty years continuously, not only as a painter but in many different art fields receiving through the years many prestigious assignments: Villa Zadra, the décor for Papadopoli’s Villa realized in collaboration with the architect Brenno Del Giudice (who will eventually marry Guido’s sister Tullia) is extremely elegant; when he has just turned thirty he receives an order by the “Sommo Poeta”, Gabriele D’Annunzio, to realize the project of the “stanza dei sonni puri” (pure sleep room) at the Vittoriale: he orchestrates a multitude of winged figures on the ceiling, designs painted silks, exquisite furniture, chandeliers." ("Guido Cadorin, Elegant Painter in Twentieth Century Venice")

In 1925, Gino Clerici, a wealthy Milanese industrialist, built a modern and luxurious hotel on via Veneto.
"...the most important piece of decorative unique work inside the Boscolo Hotel Palace is the series of nine fascinating frescoes painted in 1926 by Guido Cadorin (1892-1976). Cadorin inserted numerous portraits of his contemporaries into his frescoes, among them the Italian architect Marcello Piacentini's wife, Matilde Festa, and his niece, the painter Felice Carena and his wife, the architect Melchiorre Bega who strongly supported the choice of Carodin for the hotel's paintings, the friends and family of the owner Gino Clerici, Margherita Grassini Sarfatti and her daughter Fiammetta. "Fiammetta and I wish to be immortalized in your fresco in the main room" was the explicit request coming from a woman who, because of her friendship with Mussolini and her position as journalist and art critic, gave herself the right to put thinly veiled pressure on artists.
Cadorin also inserted himself in the fresco. (boscoloart.com)

Walter J. West (1860 - 1933) British Artist

Walter J. West. The Poppy Garden (galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk)

The Keepsake by Walter J. West (vintage-views.com)

Walter J. West. Southern Landscape

Friday

Maxime Maufra (1861-1918) French Impressionist Painter

Maxime Maufra, born in Nantes, started painting at 18. In late 1886, he exhibited his artworks at the Paris Salon. He settled in Brittany where he met Gauguin and Serusier. Maufra had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1894, at Le Barc de Toutteville.

Maxime Maufra. The Port of Sauzon-Belle Isle en Mer

Maufra admired Sisley and Pissarro and sometimes quoted their pointillist-like technique although his technique is clearly more aggressive and bold. His works also feature a pronounced liking for synthesis, strong color, and powerful drawing, traits reminiscent of Pont Aven artists.