Hello everybody and welcome back to My Weekly Flickr.
A little cool this morning with rain threatening but never arriving. Like probably half of the Country I have trouble sleeping. To put a finer point on it I have trouble staying asleep. I get up very early in the morning to get ready to go to the office, usually around 3:30 AM so I generally go to bed around 7:30/8:00 PM. My co-worker has two small children and I joke that they stay up later than I do which in fact is true. Usually I fall right asleep but pretty much like clockwork I wake up three hours later to go to the bathroom. My brother questioned whether I wake up to go to the bathroom or go to the bathroom because I wake up which is a valid question but I think the answer is the former. Sometimes it’s more than once a night. I remember having lunch with my boss many years ago when I was a young man and he was at the age I’m at now and he said that every night he got up once or twice to go to the bathroom. I blithely responded that I slept through the night. His response was terse, just wait. Well, I can acknowledge him as a prophet now. Generally I fall right asleep but after waking up is when my problems start. Quite often the rest of the night is fitful and while we all say about a bad night that we didn’t sleep at all, that’s not accurate, of course we slept but it wasn’t a very restful sleep. Last night was an unusual one for me. I went to bed around 8:30 PM and slept for five hours before waking up. Then upon my return from the bathroom I fell back asleep and slept until about 4AM. Usually on Saturday’s my internal clock goes off around 5:30 AM and I get up to do my exercises and check my email before heading out to the grocery store, prior to heading into the City. So if I wake up at 4AM, I generally drift in and out of sleep seeing the times change until I finally get out of bed at 5:30 AM. But this morning I was stunned when I rolled over and fell back asleep only to awaken and look at the clock and see it was 6:20 AM. I overslept! First time I’ve awakened with a start in a very long time. In the scheme of things it doesn’t make a difference as I still did my exercises but I had to put off the email until later in the day. And I clearly needed the extra rest. I would love to sleep straight through the night again but I think those days are clearly over.
Anyway, today I went into New York City to Christie’s auction house for a preview of their Impressionist auction, Impressionist And Modern Evening Sale Including Property From The John C. Whitehead Collection. Saw many nice things, although like the Sotheby’s auction I described there were a lot of lesser pieces as well. I started to write here that Christie’s format is different from Sotheby’s, not allowing for individual URLs, but in searching Google I discovered a section of the site that does allow it. But this is a link to the main page where you can click on their catalog to either save it as a PDF or view it as an
e-catalogue. Their catalogues are beautiful things, basically a soft cover book of art and I hope you will take the effort to do view it. You may have to register with Christie’s but there is no fee or anything to discourage you.
http://www.christies.com/salelanding/index.aspx?intSaleID=25296 Also, when you go to the individual paintings be sure to zoom in to enlarge, the small window doesn’t show nearly enough.
The star of the auction I guess is Monet, there are two of his iconic paintings, LES MEULES À GIVERNY, haystacks or wheatstacks and LE PARLEMENT, SOLEIL COUCHANT (THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, AT SUNSET). He did many versions of both paintings and these are quality representations.
http://tinyurl.com/o9jvefu http://tinyurl.com/qcmcpcy Amodeo Modigliani is someone whose paintings don’t come up in auctions that often. I saw two paintings of his, the first is a portrait of Jean Alexandre, the brother of his first patron Paul Alexandre. It’s an unusual painting in that there is another painting on the reverse, Seated Nude. The second is of Beatrice Hastings who Wikipedia tells me was an English writer, poet and literary critic who shared an apartment with Modigliani. This URL discusses both.
http://www.christies.com/features/Modigliani-Primer-5938-1.aspx and this shows the Seated Nude as well as Jean Alexandre.
http://tinyurl.com/q77n753 They had several oil paintings by Toulouse Lautrec, again something that I don’t believe comes up at auction very often, mostly you see his prints and posters. First was EQUIPAGE AU BOSC, a carriage horse with his attendant.
http://tinyurl.com/oknb4p3 Second was PRINCETEAU DANS SON ATELIER, a portrait of his friend and fellow painter, Rene Princeteau at the easel in his atelier.
http://tinyurl.com/pw4azab One painting by Gustave Courbet, LE CHÂTEAU DE CHILLON, a house in the snowy mountains.
http://tinyurl.com/p5vffro I mentioned Eugene Boudin as someone I like, there are lots of his paintings available, there were several in this auction and while I liked them all I’ll choose this as representative, BEAULIEU, LA BAIE DES TOURMIS, EFFET DU MATIN, a painting of several boats in what I take to be a lake in the mountains, lots of water and sky.
http://tinyurl.com/ooosyjm One painting by Paul Cezanne, PORTRAIT D’HOMME BARBU, a portrait, head and shoulders, of a man with a beard.
http://tinyurl.com/lxecgon There were lots of other very beautiful items in the auction, I suggest also going through the catalogue of IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN WORKS ON PAPER INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN C. WHITEHEAD COLLECTION which shows some of the things I’ve mentioned along with hundreds of other items.
http://www.christies.com/salelanding/index.aspx?intSaleID=25297 I want to mention two more items which were on display although not part of this auction. The first is by another of my favorite American painters, Edward Hopper TWO PURITANS, two wood frame houses side by side.
http://tinyurl.com/luryzb2 This painting, along with three others will be in their next auction of American art which I hope to view next week. And a Georgia O’Keeffe which for once is not one of her desert animal skeletons or flowers, EAST RIVER WITH SUN a watercolor.
http://tinyurl.com/mzyk2gv And that’s that for the moment. A very enjoyable morning for me, hope you enjoy it as well.
Andy G.
Retro housewife
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