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Suzanne Valdon. Part 4 – Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas
Self portrait by Suzanne Valadon (1883) In my last blog, Part 3 of the life story of Suzanne Valadon, I talked about her relationship with the French painter Pierre-August Renoir and looked at his...
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Suzanne Valadon Part 5. Her son Maurice Utrillo, her husband Paul Mousis and...
Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice (c.1889) My look at the life of Suzanne Valadon would not be complete if I didn’t spend some time looking at the early years of her son Maurice and how he had such...
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Suzanne Valadon. Part 6 – André Utter, the War and a change in circumstances
Self Portrait with Family(André Utter, Madeleine Valadon and Maurice Utrillo)by Suzanne Valadon (c.1910) My last blog about Suzanne Valadon ended with the appearance on the scene of André Utter, a...
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Suzanne Valadon. Part 7 – The final years
Portrait of His Mother Suzanne Valadon by Maurice Utrillo With their newly found wealth the acrimonious arguments ceased, long-standing bills were paid and new clothes were bought for Suzanne, her...
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Amedeo Modigliani. Part 1 – The birth of an artist
Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920) The artist I am featuring today has a connection with my last few blogs as, whilst he was living in Paris, he befriended Suzanne Valadon’s son, Maurice Utrillo, and...
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Amedeo Modigliani. Part 2 – Sculpture and a disappointed commission
I ended my last blog about Amedeo Modigliani with him having arrived in Paris in January 1906, thanks to financial help from his mother. For that first year in Paris, Modigliani, who still had some...
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Amedeo Modigliani. Part 3. The female nude paintings
I have changed my intended blog for today. At the end of my last blog, I said that in the next one I would conclude Modigliani’s life story and look at some of the women in his life. However, after...
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Amedeo Modigliani. Part 4 – His lovers and the tragic end.
Modigliani – the woman’s man Today’s blog is the final one of four about the life of Amedeo Modigliani, the Livorno-born artist, who at the age of twenty-two moved to Paris where he lived out the last...
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John Peter Russell. Part 1. Van Gogh and portraiture
John Peter Russell Last week I watched a documentary on television about the death of Vincent van Gogh. You have probably seen something similar or read a book on his somewhat mysterious death. Did...
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John Peter Russell. Part 2 – Belle Île, Monet and Matisse
In the first part of my blog about the Australian painter, John Peter Russell, I told you about his early life in Australia and how his father and brothers had started a foundry and engineering works...
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Louis Anquetin and cloisonnism
Girl reading a Newspaper by Louis Anquetin (1890) Today I have a new artist for you and a new –ism ! My featured painter today is the nineteenth century French artist Louis Anquetin, who was one of...
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Frederick McCubbin. Part 1 – The early years
Self portrait by Frederick McCubbin (1886) A couple of years ago I was in Northern Queensland, Australia on holiday and I had hoped to get an insight into Australian art. Unfortunately, because we...
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Frederick McCubbin. Part 2 – The Box Hill Artists’ Camp and the 9 by 5 Art...
F.McCubbin, SelfPortrait (1913) When I left off Frederick McCubbin’s life story in my last blog the year was 1884 and he was twenty-nine years of age and attending the National Gallery of Victoria...
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Frederick McCubbin. Part 3 – The later years and The Pioneer
The Pioneer by Frederick McCubbin (1904) In my last two blogs I have looked at the life of the Australian painter, Frederick McCubbin. I looked at how he started painting and how, in his twenties,...
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The Three Portraits of Ria Munk by Gustav Klimt
I suppose the most challenging and distressing period of one’s life is when somebody close to us, somebody we love, dies. It is both a traumatic and painful time when suddenly we feel the loss of...
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Jean-Marc Nattier
Jean-Marc Nattier by Louis Tocqué (c.1742)Toqué was taught by Nattier in the 1720′s and married Nattier’s daughter Marie in 1747. The career you decide on as a teenager is often a logical follow-on...
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Honoré Daumier – Lithographs and Caricatures
1830 issue of La Caricature In my blog today I want to look at some of Honoré Daumier’s political and satirical caricatures and lithographs. To get some idea as to why he came to satirise the ruling...
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Hans Makart
Hans Makart in Renaissance costume (1879)Photogrphed by Ludwig Angerer The artist I am featuring in My Daily Art Display today is the Austrian academic history painter Hans Makart. He was an artist...
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Judith Leyster and Tulip madness
The Merry Company by Judith Leyster (1630) Of my featured artist today, the Dutch Golden Age writer and poet Theodorus Schrevelius wrote in his 1648 book about the history of Haarlem entitled...
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Adolphe-William Bouguereau. Part 1 – The History Painter and his painting,...
Self Portrait by William Bouguereau (1879) In my next three blogs I want to look at the life and some of the works of one of the greatest and most prolific nineteenth century French painters,...
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