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Comment by Eva Libre on October 19, 2024 at 8:53pm

"Gatering Wood"
By Pierre-Edouard Frere (1819-1886).

Comment by Eva Libre on August 1, 2024 at 3:16pm

Egon Schiele:

Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer (1914) - Bildnis Friederike Maria Beer
Oil on canvas.
(Kallir P276)

Friederike Maria Beer (1891-1980) is the only person to be painted in oil by both Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. She is said to have paid 600 kronen for the Schiele portrait and 20,000 for the Klimt painting. Beer was the daughter of the proprietor of the successful Kaiser-Bar, a close friend of the painter Hans Böhler, and an ardent admirer of the Wiener Werkstätte.

Böhler introduced her to Schiele, who reported receiving the portrait commission on October 2, 1914; sittings apparently continued through mid-December. Beer wore a Wiener Werkstätte dress, which Schiele adorned with woven South American dolls. The pose (achieved by the subject lying face down with her arms wrapped around a pillow) is related to that in “Young Mother” and “Death and Maiden.”

Comment by Eva Libre on July 19, 2024 at 6:52pm

"Strong Dream" (1929)
Paul Klee

Comment by Eva Libre on June 2, 2024 at 5:45pm

"A Mouse and a Frog Near a Pond"

From an illustrated edition of the works of Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī , aka Mawlānā (مولانا,) , Persia / Iran , 1073 AH / 1663 AD.

Comment by Rosmarie Heusser on March 7, 2024 at 9:05pm

Art by Thomas Little

Comment by Eva Libre on October 26, 2023 at 3:55am

Felix Vallotton

Comment by Eva Libre on May 28, 2023 at 6:12pm

"Blue Bird"
by Viktoria Kalaichi (Ukraine)

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 22, 2022 at 6:47am

Christmas greetings from Pablo Picasso.

Comment by Eva Libre on December 9, 2022 at 11:50am

"Young Mother", (1914)
Egon Schiele

Technic: oil on canvas
Gallery: Wien Museum

Egon Schiele’s younger sister, Gertrude (Gerti), fell in love with his former Academy classmate and fellow Neukunstgruppe painter, Anton Peschka. She and Peschka married on November 24, 1914, and welcomed a son the following month.

The painting "Young Mother" was Egon's belated wedding gift to Gerti. Its subject, a nurturing, attentive maternal figure, attests to the artist’s high regard for his sister. Today in the collection of the @wienmuseum, "Young Mother" is one of two motherhood allegories Schiele executed in 1914, each representing one of the two types into which he believed humanity could be sorted: “noble spirits” (seen here) and “life-blind and incompetent people” (exemplified by the canvas “Blind Mother).

Kallir Research Institute

Comment by Eva Libre on December 5, 2022 at 12:14am

"Schauspieler Maske" ("Actor’s Mask"), 1924.
Paul Klee

Technic: Oil on canvas mounted on board
Gallery: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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