Abandoning Ship by Russian Artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
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Abandoning Ship – Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was an Armenian-Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. He was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
While stormy seas, sinking ships and survivors in lifeboats are common themes in Aivazovsky’s work, the absence of horizon and sky in this painting is very unusual. The tightly cropped composition draws the viewer in and increases the drama of the scene, further enhanced by the striking reflection of light on the waves.
The unusual composition is not the result of the canvas having been cut-down at a later stage but was indeed intended by the artist. A copy of the work, painted by Mikhail Briansky in 1887, only five years after the original, was sold at Sotheby’s London in May 2004. Both its composition and dimensions are identical to the original.
AED1,600.00
Almond Blossoms by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees.
Large blossom branches like this against a blue sky were one of Van Gogh’s favourite subjects. Almond trees flower early in the spring making them a symbol of new life. Van Gogh borrowed the subject, the bold outlines and the positioning of the tree in the picture plane from Japanese printmaking.
The painting was a gift for his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo, who had just had a baby son, Vincent Willem. In the letter announcing the new arrival, Theo wrote: ‘As we told you, we’ll name him after you, and I’m making the wish that he may be as determined and as courageous as you.’ Unsurprisingly, it was this work that remained closest to the hearts of the Van Gogh family. Vincent Willem went on to found the Van Gogh Museum.
AED1,250.00
Boy Holding a Blue Vase by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso
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Café Terrace at Night by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh
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Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir).
Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.[1]
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Card Players by French Artist Paul Cezanne
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This oil painting depicts three men (Card Players) with hats.
AED1,500.00
Château Noir by French Artist Paul Cézanne
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After settling in Aix, France, in 1899, Cézanne ventured daily into the surrounding Provencal landscape in search of subjects to paint. Chateau Noir, a recently constructed neo-Gothic castle designed to mimic aged ruins, captivated him. He repeatedly represented this structure and also painted from its grounds, where he had an unobstructed view of nearby Mont Sainte-Victoire, another favoured subject. As is typical of landscapes executed late in his career, Cézanne applied thick paint in broad, multihued swatches.
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Composition II in red, blue and yellow by Dutch Artist Piet Mondrian
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Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow is an oil painting on canvas. Abstract composition, it consists of several rectangles separated by horizontal and vertical black lines. Two-thirds of the painting, at the top right, is occupied by a red square. The lower left corner contains a blue rectangle, the lower right corner a yellow rectangle. The other rectangles are white.
The technique used is quite complex: Piet Mondrian sketched the work in charcoal, then glued pieces of wallpaper, added strips of tape, paint and a little more charcoal, then he replaced all the elements with paint.
AED1,200.00
Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan by Russian Artist Iliya Repin
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks is a painting by Ukrainian-born Russian artist Ilya Repin.
It is also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto, and known in Russian as ‘Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan’.
Repin began in 1880 and finished in 1891. He recorded the years of work along the lower edge of the canvas. Alexander III bought the painting for 35,000 rubles. Since then, the canvas has been exhibited in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg with another version by Repin in the Kharkiv Art Museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
AED2,550.00
Daniel in the Lions’ Den by Peter Paul Rubens
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Daniel in the Lions’ Den is a painting from around 1615 by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Sir Dudley Carleton, 1st viscount Dorchester [1573-1632], English Ambassador to The Hague, who acquired the painting in 1618 from the artist in an exchange for antique sculpture; presented to Charles I, King of England [1600-1649], between c. 1625 and 1632, where it hung in the Bear Gallery at Whitehall; James Hamilton-Douglas, 1st duke of Hamilton [1606-1649], Hamilton Palace, Scotland, by 1643; by descent in his family to William Alexander Louis Stephen Hamilton-Douglas, 12th duke of Hamilton [1845-1895], Hamilton Palace; (first Hamilton Palace sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19 June 1882, no. 80); purchased by Duncan for Christopher Beckett Denison; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 13 June 1885, no. 925); purchased by Jamieson for the 12th duke of Hamilton; by inheritance to his kinsman, Alfred Douglas Hamilton-Douglas, 13th duke of Hamilton [1862-1940], Hamilton Palace; (second Hamilton Palace sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6-7 November 1919, 1st day, no. 57); purchased by Kearley for Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st viscount Cowdray [1856-1927], Cowdray Park, Midhurst, Sussex; by inheritance to his son, Weetman Harold Miller Pearson, 2nd viscount Cowdray [1882-1933], Cowdray Park; by inheritance to his son, Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd viscount Cowdray [1910-1995], Cowdray Park; (sale, Bonham’s, London, 1 August 1963, no. 25, listed as by Jordaens and De Vos by Bonham’s cataloguer, Mr. Lawson); withdrawn and sold by private treaty before the auction to (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], New York); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 13 December 1965 to NGA.
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Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer – Arles, 1888 by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
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Can you see why these fishermen’s boats appear slightly unreal? Compared to the irregular surface of the sandy beach, they’ve been painted in an overly two-dimensional way. The boats are made up of areas of uniform colour within strong outlines. Furthermore, the boats don’t cast shadows on the beach. These stylistic elements were familiar to Van Gogh from his collection of Japanese prints.
Van Gogh would have preferred to make this painting on the beach, but he couldn’t, because the fishermen put out to sea very early every morning. He did draw the boats there, however, and later made this painting at home.
AED1,600.00
Guernica by Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso
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Guernica, official name Gernika, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain. The town of Guernica is one part of the municipality of Gernika-Lumo, whose population is 16,224 as of 2009.
On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis tested their new air force on the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain. One-third of Guernica’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded. Pablo Picasso exposed the horror of the bombing in his famous anti-war painting called Guernica.
AED1,150.00
Haystack at Giverny by Artist Claude Monet
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Haystack at Giverny, 1866, with the brilliant use of color suggestive of the rolling fields of poppies and the strand horizontal planes with vertical accents, typifies Monet’s treatment of his landscape subjects at this time.
AED1,300.00