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Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg by Philip de Laszlo
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (1887-1969) was Queen of Spain until 1931when King Alfonso XIII abdicated. Her grandson Juan Carlos became King in 1975. Her Wikipedia entry is here.Below are...
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James McNeill Whistler's Tall Women in Colors
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903, biographical information here) occasionally painted full-length portraits of women.As was usual for most of his paintings, he titled them using a color or two...
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Ramon Casas Paints a Crowd
Catalonian artist Ramon Casas (1866-1932), Wikipedia entry here, was skilled at depicting people. This was even the case with his crowd-scene paintings where hundreds of folks were shown.One such...
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Paul César Helleu's Women
Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) portrayed society women. According to his Wikipedia entry he was eventually rich enough to buy yachts, a subject of his later paintings.Unlike most portrait painters...
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Molti Ritratti: King Alfonso XIII
Spanish King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) abdicated his throne in 1931, dying ten years later in Rome of a heart attack at age 54. Biographical information can be found here.Even in the age of...
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Drawings by Bernard Boutet de Monvel
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949), biographical information here and here, was a leading Art Deco / Moderne era artist. He is best known for his illustrations and portraits, though those were not...
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Ramon Casas' Women
Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932), Wikipedia entry here, was one of those excellent Barcelona-based artists active in the decades around 1900. Most of his paintings and drawings are of people. He was...
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Alexandre de Riquer, Painting and Posters and More
Alexandre de Riquer i Ynglada, 7th Count of Casa Dávalos (1856-1920) is probably best known for his poster work. But he also painted, engraved, and wrote poetry and other works. Some background...
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Multi Ritratti: Nero Wolfe
From time to time I present multiple portraits of famous or well-known people. And I even stoop to featuring various artists' versions of fictional characters. Such it is with today's post, the...
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Thomas Maitland Cleland's Cadillac Images
Thomas Maitland Cleland (1880-1964), brief Wikipedia entry here, was an art director and graphic artist of note during his career. Perhaps he is best known for creating the first cover of Fortune...
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Sonia Delaunay Clothing in Black and White
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), Wikiperdia entry here, was a Modernist designer of note who during the 1920s and early '30s focused largely on cloth patterning for women's fashions.In this post I present...
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De Laszlo Paints King Alfonso XIII and Family, 1926-27
Philip de László (1869-1937), Wikipedia entry here, was a highly successful portrait artist: considered by some the successor to John Singer Sargent. Born and raised in Hungary, most of his career was...
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Coles Phillips' Fadeaway Illustrations
Clarence Coles Phillips (1880-1927) lived a short, but highly productive life as an illustrator. He was and is famed for his striking "fadeaway" compositions where areas of the subject's clothing...
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Up Close: Pauline Astor by John Singer Sargent
Pauline Astor (ca. 1880-1972) was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor and granddaughter of John Jacob Astor III. Her portrait was painted ca. 1898-99 by John Singer Sargent. As best I can discover,...
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Anglada Camarasa's Women
In 2013 I wrote about Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (1871–1959); his brief English language Wikipedia entry is here.My post mentioned that:"Spanish artists have the reputation of being especially fond...
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Camouflaged Aircraft Factories
Military-related camouflage attracted the attention of a number of artists, some of them well-known in their day, including Abbott Handerson Thayer, Solomon J. Solomon and Norman Wilkinson (a list of...
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Pietro Annigoni, Portrait Artist
Pietro Annigoni (1910-1988), as mentioned here, was one of a small group of Italian artists who signed a manifesto of Modern Realist Painters (pittori moderni della realità) in 1947.He is best known...
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Pierce-Arrow Automobile Advertisements
Pierce-Arrow automobiles (1901-1938, Wikipedia entry here) were very expensive. They also were well-engineered and built using top-quality craftsmanship.What they were not was stylish. Pierce-Arrows...
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More Ettore Tito Paintings
Ettore Tito (1859-1941) was a Venetian realist painter best known for his genre scenes. Biographical information is here. I wrote about him here in 2013.Today's post once again presents some of his...
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James E. Allen, Illustrator and Printmaker
James Edmund Allen (1894-1964) is known for his illustration work, but is perhaps better known for his prints. More background is here.According to the link above, not many of his original...
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