Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
I wish I were optimistic that spring like weather will be arriving soon. This week it was cold, dark, rainy and windy, pretty unspring like if you ask me. But Mother Nature hasn’t asked me so I guess I’ll have to suffer like everyone else.
I visited Sotheby’s for their American auction preview. It was very low key, all on one floor and only 138 lots. The total sales price was $3.4M with only two items going for above $100K, paintings by Milton Avery and Andrew Wyeth which I’ll link to below. It was pretty much the usual suspects and while there were no blockbusters or big ticket items much of it was pleasing. This is a link to all the objects in the auction.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2019/american-art-n10048.html?locale=en Milton Avery - PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER READING – This sold for the highest price in the auction, $425K, roughly 2 ½ times the high estimate. Avery was a contemporary American modern painter born in the late 19th Century who died in 1965. Hilton Kramer, the art critic, referred to him as America’s greatest living colorist which is interesting as I find his colors in this portrait rather muted. The second link is to Kramer’s column in the Times in which he made this statement and then went on to say, “Pictures seemed to be constructed of nothing but a very few, very flat areas of muted, milky color contained in free-form shapes that fitted as snugly - and as inevitably - into the picture surface as the pieces of a child's picture-puzzle. It seemed at times as if the impulse inherent in this tendency could scarcely be carried further without lapsing into abstraction, which - had it occurred - would have endangered the whole tone and spirit of a style that depended upon some minimal element of representation for its survival.” To me the fact that it doesn’t lapse into abstraction is what makes it worth looking at.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.13.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/12/arts/art-view-avery-our-greatest-colorist-by-hilton-kramer.html Andrew Wyeth – CORDWOOD – This was the second highest price at $350K, also selling above the high estimate but only by $50K. Wyeth is a contemporary artist that I’ve come to enjoy although I didn’t think this was one of his better works.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.77.html William Trost Richards - CRASHING WAVES – Trost Richards is someone my brother turned me on to, an American landscape artist of the 19th Century who was associated with the Hudson River painters, a group I especially like. Last summer I wrote about my visit to the Brooklyn museum to see an exhibition of his watercolors. This is one of his seascapes and nicely captures the roar of the ocean as the waves break against the shore.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.112.html John Henry Twachtman – SPRING – Twachtman, another artist my brother introduced me to, was a 19th Century American known for his Impressionist landscape paintings of which this is a good example.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.120.html Thomas Moran - FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS – I’ve linked to Moran many times and always commented on how his works are obviously influenced by Turner. You can see how evocative this is of Turner’s Venetian port scenes.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.115.html Jasper Francis Cropsey - WILLIAM PENN'S WEDDING (A WEDDING PROCESSION, STOKE POGES CHURCH) – Cropsey is a favorite who I’ve also linked to many times. This is an unusual painting for him in that there are people in it, usually he paints unpeopled landscapes, possibly with animals, such as the other painting I link to below. I like the whole composition of this, the building, the landscape and the procession walking down the lane, a very pretty setting.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.98.html Jasper Francis Cropsey – LANDSCAPE – This one with cattle
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.106.html Martin Johnson Heade - APPLE BLOSSOMS AND HUMMINGBIRD – Heade painted in many different categories, Wikipedia described his oeuvre as, “American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, and depictions of tropical birds (such as hummingbirds), as well as lotus blossoms and other still lifes. He was also part of the Hudson river school of artists and someone else I’ve linked to many times. As the title says, this is one of his humming birds.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.102.html Childe Hassam - BOUQUET OF OAKS – Hassam was another American Impressionist, he was especially known for his series of flag paintings which he began in 1916 when he was inspired by a Preparedness Parade for US involvement in World War I, a cause he embraced. Bouquet is a lovely, bright landscape of a tranquil setting.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.52.html Everett Shinn - THE BALLET REHEARSAL – Shinn was an American realist and member of the Ashcan school, artists who painted scenes of urban life, not attempting to prettify it. This is evocative of Degas, someone he more than likely came across when he was in France.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.48.html George Inness - LANDSCAPE, SUNSET – Inness was another landscape painter of the 19th Century. In the last decade of his life he lived in Montclair, New Jersey where the Montclair museum has a gallery dedicated to his art. This is a venue I’ve been to a number of times and I’m sure I wrote about their Inness exhibition back in 2012.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.107.html Edward Hopper - STUDY FOR 'GIRLIE SHOW' – I’ll end with another favorite of mine. Not much comes up for auction for Hopper although in recent years there were some really impressive paintings that came to the hammer from David and Peggy Rockefeller and Barney Ebsworth, both of which I wrote about last year. This is a pencil and charcoal sketch, a rough draft for his painting, Girlie Show which I’ve also linked to below. Like all the women modeled in his paintings this is based on his wife Jo.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/american-art-n10048/lot.16.html https://www.edwardhopper.net/girlie-show.jsp In other art news.
I haven’t downloaded the App discussed in the article below but the two minute video is certainly interesting. The actual VR must be a little creepy. My brother replied by saying, a step too far.
You Can Now Join Doctors as They Dissect a Corpse in Rembrandt’s Most Famous Painting Through Augmented Reality
https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/rembrandt-reality-augmented-reality-1490914 A five minute video from Sotheby’s with overseas exhibitions. The first two are Van Gogh and while we can’t go to the exhibits the previews are nice.
Preview the Blockbuster Museum Shows Opening in March
https://tinyurl.com/yxtxl25o Article on three Jean-Léon Gérôme Works in an upcoming auction with the second link a brief video on the best one, a strikingly beautiful painting of an Arab comforting his exhausted horse.
Three of a Kind: Jean-Léon Gérôme Works that Redefine Orientalism
https://tinyurl.com/y59kw4lm Gérôme’s Cinematic Vision of the North African Desert
https://tinyurl.com/y3ubnxvf Article on German exhibition of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese which I’m sure is a blockbuster.
How the Venetian Painters Changed the Course of Art History
https://tinyurl.com/y5vs4afk Three articles from Christies.
Giacometti’s monument to a fallen hero of the French Resistance
https://tinyurl.com/y2rmbfem How Irving Penn ‘changed the way people saw the world’ – I saw the Penn Centennial exhibit at the met in 2017 and it was something special.
https://tinyurl.com/y367e8jo The Irving Collection tops $32.2 million during Asian Art Week season in New York
https://www.christies.com/features/Irving-Collection-leads-Asian-Art-Week-in-New-York-9764-3.aspx?sc_lang=en#FID-9764 Two articles from Art Daily. I’ve visited the Wadsworth and I’d like to go back but it’s a long train ride and then a short walk. And if memory serves the train schedule isn’t great either.
A Van Gogh without a doubt: Wadsworth Atheneum painting is authenticated
http://artdaily.com/news/112117/A-Van-Gogh-without-a-doubt--Wadsworth-Atheneum-painting-is-authenticated Rare, private collection of Old Master paintings makes exclusive appearance in Florida – I imagine this collection will be coming up for auction at some point based on what it says in the article.
http://artdaily.com/news/112221/Rare--private-collection-of-Old-Master-paintings-makes-exclusive-appearance-in-Florida Now here is this week’s Flickrs.
Andy G.
Roberta
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertamaid/47071719202/More curtsey practice at sissy manor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499@N02/47084386032/ Naughty sissy faggot Katrina from Queensland, Australia
https://www.flickr.com/photos/46438423@N02/46406682124/ A few more from sissy manor
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135809499@N02/33231275138/ An enchanting moment in time
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146568012@N05/28728876017/Garden maid
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146568012@N05/46877406082/A pinky curtsey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/144247595@N02/45883366814/Prissy Sissy Slut
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyukslut/40136686653/142339
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefiecd/45704636175/Mistress says every curtsy is a courtesy to her guests, and is also compulsory!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sissyplaything/32876525588/
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