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1904 In Art
Events from the year 1904 in art. Events * April ** Octavian Smigelschi is selected to paint the interior decoration of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Sibiu. ** George Frederic Watts (dies 1 July) opens the Watts Gallery in the English village of Compton, Guildford, for the display of his work. * November – The Potters (artists group) is formed by female artists in St. Louis, Missouri. * Start of Picasso's Rose Period. * Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert. * Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts. * British Impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn marries American portrait painter Jane Erin Emmet. * Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, designed by Ernst von Ihne and noted for its ''Skulpturensammlung'', is completed. Works Paintings * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' The Finding of Moses'' * Paul Cézanne ** '' Mont Sainte-Victoire'' ( Philadelphia Museum of Art) ** ''La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octavian Smigelschi
Octavian or Octav Smigelschi (last name also Smigelski, Smighelschi, Szmigelszki, or Szmigelschi; hu, Szmigelszki Oktáv; 21 March 1866 – 10 November 1912) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian painter and printmaker, one of the leading Romanians, culturally Romanian artists in his native Transylvania. Of mixed Poles, Polish, Aromanians, Aromanian, and possibly Ruthenians, Ruthenian, background, he identified mainly with the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, Romanian-speaking Greek-Catholics, although some of his most important work was also done for the rival Romanian Orthodox Church. Smigelschi studied under Bertalan Székely at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Drawing School and Art Teachers' College in Budapest, becoming familiar with the Historicism (art), historicist trend in contemporary Hungarian art. While working on and off at high schools in Upper Hungary and Transylvania, he experimented with borrowings from ancient Romanian handicrafts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Finding Of Moses (Alma-Tadema Painting)
''The Finding of Moses'' is a 1904 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema. It was one of his last major works before his death in 1912, but quickly fell out of favour; according to rumour, it was sold in the 1950s for its frame. After appreciation of Victorian painting was renewed towards the end of the 20th century, it was described in an auction catalogue in 1995 as "the undisputed masterpiece of lma-Tadema'slast decade, as well as a late (perhaps the final?) flowering of the nineteenth-century's love-affair with Egypt". It was sold to a private collector at auction in 2010 for nearly US$36 million. The Finding of Moses had been a popular subject for paintings since the Renaissance, with a revival in the 19th century by Orientalist artists keen to add authentic archaeological decor to their depictions. Background The painting was commissioned by Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet for 5,000 guineas, plus expenses. Aird's civil engineering business, John Aird & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Godward
John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, but his style of painting fell out of favour with the rise of modern art. Early life Godward was born in 1861 and lived in Wilton Grove, Wimbledon. He was born to Sarah Eboral and John Godward (an investment clerk at the Law Life Assurance Society, London). He was the eldest of five children. He was named after his father John and grandfather William. He was christened at St Mary's Church, Battersea on 17 October 1861. The overbearing attitude of his parents made him reclusive and shy later in adulthood. Career He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1887. When he moved to Italy with one of his models in 1912, his family broke off all contact with him and even cut his image from family pictures. Godward returned to England in 1921, died in 1922, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, West London. One of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Fuller
Florence Ada Fuller (1867 – 17 July 1946) was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert Hawker Dowling and teacher Jane Sutherland and took classes at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, becoming a professional artist in the late 1880s. In 1892 she left Australia, travelling first to South Africa, where she met and painted for Cecil Rhodes, and then on to Europe. She lived and studied there for the subsequent decade, except for a return to South Africa in 1899 to paint a portrait of Rhodes. Between 1895 and 1904 her works were exhibited at the Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy. In 1904, Fuller returned to Australia, living in Perth. She became active in the Theosophical Society and painted some of her best-known work, including ''A Golden Hour'', described by the National Gallery of Australia as a "masterpiece" when it acquired the work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert James Draper
Herbert James Draper ( (baptism record) – ) was an English Classicism, Classicist painter whose career began in the Victorian era and extended through the first two decades of the 20th century. Life Born in London, the son of a fruit merchant named John James Draper and his wife Emma, he was educated at Bruce Castle School in Tottenham''The Times'', Thursday, Sep 23, 1920; pg. 1; Issue 42523; col A and then went on to study art at the Royal Academy. He undertook several educational trips to Rome and Paris between 1888 and 1892, having won the Royal Academy Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship in 1889. In the 1890s, he worked as an illustrator, eventually settling in London. In 1891, he married Ida (née Williams), with whom he had a daughter, Yvonne. He died of arteriosclerosis at the age of 56, in his home on Abbey Road, London, Abbey Road. Career Draper's most productive period began in 1894. He focused mainly on mythological themes from ancient Greece. His painting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Dexter (British Artist)
Walter Dexter (12 June 1876 – 12 February 1958) was an English artist, painting in oil and watercolour. He lived in King's Lynn for much of his life, and many of his pictures show the area. Life Dexter was born in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, son of Walter Sothern Dexter, a photographic artist, and his wife Emily. The family came from King's Lynn; they returned there, and Walter was educated in the town. He was also taught to paint by Henry Baines (1823–1894; a well-known artist of West Norfolk and brother of Thomas Baines)."Walter Dexter – Painter" East Winch and West Bilney community project. Retrieved 14 April 2020."Dexter, Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ( pl, Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis – ) was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life, he composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings, as well as many literary works and poems. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture. Biography Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was born in Senoji Varėna, a town in southeastern Lithuania that at the time was in the Russian Empire. He was the oldest of nine children of his father, Konstantinas, and his mother, Adelė née Radmanaitė (Radmann), who was descended from a Lutheran family of Bavarian origin. Like many educated Lithuanians of the time, Čiu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady In Blue (C%C3%A9zanne)
Lady in Blue may refer to: *June Winters, American actress who performed as the children’s music character "Lady in Blue" on television, radio, and on dozens of albums from the 1940s into the 1960s. Her character "Lady in Blue" also had its own comic strip. *Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, a Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer, popularly known as Lady in Blue and the Blue Nun, after the color of her order's habit * ''Lady in Blue'' (Cézanne), a painting by Paul Cézanne * ''Lady in Blue'' (album), album by Joe Dolan ** "Lady in Blue" (Joe Dolan song), song by Joe Dolan, title track of similarly titled album, side A of his double-A sided single "Lady in Blue" / "My Darling Michelle" * "Lady in Blue" (Tori Amos song), song by Tori Amos from her 2009 album '' Abnormally Attracted to Sin'' See also * ''Woman in Blue'', a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire Vue Du Bosquet Du Château Noir
''La Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir'' is a 1904 oil on canvas landscape painting by the French artist Paul Cézanne. The ostensible subject is the painter's familiar Montagne Sainte-Victoire and it is part of a series the artist did of the promontory between 1904 and 1906. In 2014 the work was sold by the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan for $100 million dollars $US in a private sale to the State of Qatar. See also *List of paintings by Paul Cézanne *List of most expensive paintings This is a list of the highest known prices paid for paintings. The current record price is approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's ''Salvator Mundi'' (). The painting was sold in November 2017, t ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Montagne Sainte-Victoire vue du bosquet du Château Noir, La 1904 paintings Paintings by Paul Cézanne Landscape paintings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
