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I and the Village and The Birthday by Marc Chagall
I and the Village by Marc Chagall (1911) Having just completed my four part look at the quartet of Scottish Colourists I am turning to a painter from the same era but one who could not be more...
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Zinaida Serebriakova. Part 1
House of Cards (1919)by Zinaida Seberiakova One of the most pleasing aspects of this blog for me is discovering artists I had never heard of before. It is an even greater pleasure when the “new-to-me”...
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Zinaida Serebriakova – Part 2.
My blog today continues with a look at the life of the Russian painter, Zinaida Serebriakova. At the end of my last entry I told you that she and her family’s life had been turned upside down by the...
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The Naples Series by Thomas Jones
Buildings in Naples by Thomas Jones (1782) To start My Daily Art Display blog today I want to first look at the fascinating happening which occurred during the late seventeenth century to early...
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Kees van Dongen, his life, his family and his art
Portrait of Guus Preitinger by Kees van Dongen (1910) Last Thursday I embarked on my monthly pilgrimage to London to visit a couple of art galleries and take a look at two new art exhibitions and it...
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Victorine Meurent
Le Jour des Rameaux by Victorine Meurent (c.1880) The painting above, Le Jour des Rameaux or Palm Sunday, is unique in as much as it is the only surviving painting by my featured artist. It was...
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Figure at a Window by Dali (1925) and Young Virgin Autosodomized by her Own...
Figure at a Window by Dali (1925) My blog today looks at two paintings by the same artist, completed twenty-nine years apart. There is an obvious a similarity about the works and yet they could not be...
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Frederic Edwin Church, Part 1
Last weekend I spent a two day break in London attending the christening of my grandson and pottering around a couple of galleries visiting their current exhibitions. I had tickets for the Boccacio...
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Frederic Edwin Church, Part 2
For those of you who have just landed on this page I suggest you go back to my previous blog which looks at Frederic Church’s early life and talks a little about his exhibition at the National Gallery,...
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Gradiva by André Masson
After my last two blogs looking at the exquisite artistry of the American landscape painter, Frederic Church, I am going to give you something completely different today. I was going to facetiously...
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Paul Delvaux’s Sleeping Venus
Sleeping Venus by Paul Delvaux (1944) In my last blog I looked at the life of André Masson, the French-born Belgian Surrealist and one of his paintings, which in some ways mirrored the physical and...
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The War Series by George Bellows
Massacre at Dinant by George Bellows (1918) Another exhibition I recently attended whilst in London was one which showcased some of the works by the influential American realist painter, George...
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The Frederiksborg Castle paintings by Christen Købke
Frederiksborg Castle in the Evening Light by Christen Købke (1835) The featured painter in my next two blogs is the Danish artist, Christen Købke, who lived in Denmark in the first half of the...
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The Portraiture of Christen Købke
Self Portrait by Christen Købke (1833) Today, as I promised in my last blog, I am going to continue looking at the life of the Danish painter Christen Købke and concentrate on some of his intriguing...
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Virgin and Child with Saints by Rogier van der Weyden
Sketch of Madonna and Child with Saints Do you like jigsaw puzzles? Do you like a mystery? I hope so as today my featured paintings are just part of an artistic and mysterious jigsaw puzzle. I...
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The Holy Family paintings by Joos van Cleve
Self portrait by Joos van Cleve (1519)Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The artist I am featuring today is the early Netherlandish painter Joos van der Beke, better known as Joos van Cleve because he is...
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Rembrandt von Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburg
Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume by Rembrandt (1635) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume was painted by Rembrandt in 1635, The painting is housed in the National Gallery, London....
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Rembrandt, Geertje Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels
Woman bathing in a Stream by Rembrandt (1654) It is thought that the woman in the painting is Hendrickje Stoffels, who was Rembrandt’s maid and who shared the second part of the artist’s life. Later...
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Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant
The Honeysuckle Bower by Rubens (c.1609) This painting, which is housed in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich is entitled The Honeysuckle Bower and was painted by Rubens the year he married Isdabella Brant....
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Peter Paul Rubens and Hélène Fourment
Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment and Their Son Frans by Rubens (c.1636) This superb portrait by Rubens of his wife Hélène and their three year old son, Frans can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of...
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