Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
Well it’s a winter wonderland again, we had our first significant snowfall of the season. Something that always makes me anxious. The only driving I do on a regular basis is to the Shop-Rite every Saturday morning and when it snows there’s always the question as to whether I’ll be able to go. Which in and of itself is not a major bother but I follow my routine and the snow tries to disrupt it. My boss tells me I’m compulsive and I don’t argue with him. I could walk to the store, I always do if I go on Sunday or in the afternoon but on my weekly trip I shop for the week, always buying a gallon or two of milk in addition to my vegetables, fish and other stuff and it would be a nuisance to carry all of that back home. In years to come I may buy a cart and bring the groceries home in that just as I did for my Mother when I was a child but that won’t work in the snow so it will still be an issue.
When we had the minor snowfall earlier in the season I was surprised when my man didn’t come by but it wasn’t a big deal so I didn’t ask. But when I heard about the prediction for last night I called him to make sure he was still my guy. He is but he gave me a scare. When I spoke to him he told me he had a hernia and couldn’t push the snow blower. He said he was told to have the operation but didn’t indicate he really planned to. I asked him if he would be able to have his men take care of me and he told me not to worry that he would do it. I argued with him about how serious a hernia can be but he was not to be swayed. So this morning when I got back from the store he was out there shoveling. I spoke to him and he said that he’s ok, just shouldn’t do any heavy lifting and he said he was going to have the operation. I couldn’t persuade him that shoveling snow involved lifting. I hope he does have the operation and soon, selfishly I want him healthy for future seasons but I also really like him a lot and don’t want him to hurt himself even more. As to the snow, I would guess we got about 4 or 5 inches, it’s always hard to say. It was very wet and slushy but I was able to get to the Shop-Rite and back which is really all I care about.
Once back from the store I headed into New York for the Sotheby’s auction. I wore what I jokingly refer to as my seven league boots. They’re rubbers that are very heavy. I bought them online not knowing how heavy they were, if I had seen them in a store I would never have purchased them. I definitely needed them in NJ but could have done without them in the City which didn’t really get very much snow. Most of it had been shoveled already. I took the very long walk from the Port Authority to Sotheby’s in a mist, it was wasn’t really raining but it was clearly doing something. I arrived at the auction house damp and a little tired from the walk due to the extra effort of having the heavy shoes.
The Sotheby’s show was really great. It’s on the tenth, seventh and third floors but the tenth is the one to see. I walked ahead of a couple who were always a painting or two behind me and I think they will be bidding rather just looking like me based on overhearing some of their conversation. They paused in front of a painting by Gerard Donck and the man asked the woman if she had one. I didn’t make notes this time so this is from memory but there were 8 small paintings right at the entrance which I liked, including a Van Dyck portrait and Strawberries by Adrien Coorte which I can’t seem to locate on the auction site. In total there were two small Van Dyck portraits. There was a John Constable oil sketch for his large painting of Salisbury Cathedral which my brother speculated would be in great demand by museums as the painting is a masterpiece, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE MEADOWS
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.96.html It was nice but there were many other things I liked more. A Pieter Claesz still life, A ROEMER, AN OVERTURNED PEWTER JUG, OLIVES AND A HALF-PEELED LEMON ON PEWTER PLATES
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.37.html and a Clara Peeters still life, SLICES OF BUTTER ON A WANLI 'KRAAK' PORCELAIN DISH, A STACK OF CHEESE ON A PEWTER PLATE, WITH A JUG, A FAÇON-DE-VENISE WINEGLASS, A BUN, CRAYFISH ON A PEWTER PLATE, A KNIFE AND SHRIMP ON A TABLE
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.18.html both of which were really wonderful. I know nothing about her but she was certainly a fine artist. They had a wonderful Canaletto, LONDON, A VIEW OF THE OLD HORSE GUARDS AND BANQUETING HALL, WHITEHALL SEEN FROM ST. JAMES' PARK,
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.98.html as well as a Panini ROME, THE PANTHEON, A VIEW OF THE INTERIOR TOWARDS THE PIAZZA DELLA ROTONDA.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.91.html An absolutely glowing Solomon Van Ruysdael painting of two small Dutch boats on the water with an incredible blue sky, WIJDSCHIP AND OTHER SMALL DUTCH VESSELS AT THE MOUTH OF AN ESTUARY
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.60.html I mused that it’s a painting I would love to wake up and look at every morning as it would bring sunshine no matter how gloomy the actual weather was. And it’s estimated for only $3-4 million! There’s even an El Greco, SAINT JOSEPH .
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.41.html The drawings are very good as well, two Ingres, Jacques Louis David, Greuze, a number of Tiepolo’s and Gericault’s and many others. And a number of pastel portraits by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau which are really beautiful. Here’s one of them, PORTRAITS OF AIMÉ BENJAMIN FLEURIAU AND HIS WIFE, MARIANNE SUZANNE LIÈGE FLEURIAU
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/old-master-drawings-n09301/lot.117.html I saw an exhibit of pastel portraits at the Met last year which had Perroneau and it was one of the best exhibits I’ve seen. In additional to the links above here are links to the auction pages for the different shows.
Old Master & 19th Century European Art
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/old-master-paintings-19th-century-n09303.html#&page=all&sort=lotNum-asc&viewMode=listMaster Paintings: Part I
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302.html#&page=all&sort=lotNum-asc&viewMode=list Master Paintings and Sculpture: Part II
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/master-paintings-part-ii-n09307.html#&page=all&sort=lotNum-asc&viewMode=list Old Master Drawings
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2015/old-master-drawings-n09301.html#&page=all&sort=lotNum-asc&viewMode=list All in all I was very glad I didn’t let the weather deter my visit.
And now, let’s go to the Flickrs.
Andy G.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/31407788%40N02/15038644601 Twice Two (1933)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56590546%40N03/16314977295 sissy boy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/117041661%40N02/16140505025 IMG_0690
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rafiats/14751051753/ sheldon in maid outfit
https://www.flickr.com/photos/69818816%40N00/16081230686 All in black
https://www.flickr.com/photos/georgieukcd/15955255717 The missing objects
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66926448%40N07/16009434442 Womanless beauty pageant
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7742807%40N08/16146566937 White Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/85377749%40N08/15465330374 Legnano - Corso Italia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alessiacross/15945120767 Paisley Dress
https://www.flickr.com/photos/110386909%40N08/16122638235 Cute black and white dress
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