Barge Haulers on the Volga by Russian Artist Iliya Repin
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Barge Haulers on the Volga or Burlaki is an oil-on-canvas painting by artist Ilya Repin. It depicts 11 men physically dragging a barge on the banks of the Volga River. They are at the point of collapse from exhaustion, oppressed by heavy, hot weather. The work is a condemnation of profit from inhumane labor.
AED1,750.00
American Realism, Edward Hopper, Modern art, Modernism, Oil on Canvas, Paintings, Realism, Social realism, Western Paintings
Nighthawks – Edward Hopper
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Nighthawks is a 1942 oil on canvas painting by Edward Hopper that portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night as viewed through the diner’s large glass window. The light coming from the diner illuminates a darkened and deserted urban streetscape.
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On a Turf Bench by Russian Artist Iliya Repin
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Ilya Repin created a series of fine Impressionist canvases, including the pearl of Russian Impressionist painting “On a Turf Bench”. His genre canvases are now classics of Russian Impressionism and did much to popularise the compositional devices of Impressionism in Russian painting.
Depicted: Vera Alexeyevna Repina, the artist’s wife; Vera and Nadya, his daughters. Alexei and Evgenia Shevtsov, parents of the artist’s wife; Alexei and Maria Shevtsov, the artist’s brother-in-law and his wife.
AED1,600.00
Whistler’s Mother by Artist James McNeill Whistler
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Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler, was the mother of the artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler and the subject of her son’s painting popularly known as Whistler’s Mother, though actually titled Arrangement in Grey and Black. This painting, which hangs in the Musée d’Orsay and was reproduced on the 1934 Mother’s Day U.S. postal stamp, as well as in countless art books and encyclopedias, has come to symbolize world motherhood. Certainly, her likeness is better known throughout the world than that of any other North Carolina woman.
Arrangement in Grey and Black, best known under its colloquial name Whistler’s Mother, is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871. The subject of the painting is Whistler’s mother, Anna McNeill Whistler.
It has been variously described as an American icon and a Victorian Mona Lisa.
AED1,500.00