Category: Art History

• Art Buyers Be Aware!

  

  This beautiful etching and aquatint, “The Deserted Garden”, by the Danish artist, Lars Bo*, was struck in 1962. I was pleased to acquire this piece from a private collection through the on-line art auction held in the fall of 2012 at the Hamilton Art Gallery in Ontario.

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  March 13, 2013

  Art Galleries, Art History, Etching

  Danish artist, Lars Bo, MoMA, Paul Verlaine, Rambouillet Forest

• Un Painting Picasso #2: The Washerwoman

  Recently I received a note on this postcard from a good friend who knows about my devotion to Picasso. When I looked closely at this drawing of 12 squiggles I thought to myself that there is no point even trying to “make art” when Picasso has done it all, and done it all so brilliantly.…

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  August 13, 2012

  Art History

  Andre Breton, Apollinaire, Camilio Cela, Cocteau, Eluard, Gavilla de Fabulas sin Amor, Lavandiere, Max Jacob

• Un-painting Picasso: La fillette aux pieds nus

  This post is the first of a new series examining a work by Pablo Picasso. For more explanation see the introduction in Un-painting Picasso. When Picasso was 10 years old his family moved from Malaga, his birthplace in exotic Andalucia, to LaCoruña in Galicia on the forbidding North West Atlantic coast of Spain north of…

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  June 13, 2012

  Art History

  La fillette aux pieds nus, Musee Picasso, Patrick O’Brian, Phillipe Sollers, Picasso