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Eugenia Martinez de Irujo, daughter of the 18th Duchess of Alba,
before Goya's portrait of 13th Duchess of Alba, Madrid, Spain
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the 18th Duchess of Alba
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Showing posts with label Living ART. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living ART. Show all posts
a poem by PROUST
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jacques emile blanche
" Narrative Art, the Novel-from Murasaki to Proust, has produce great works of poetry.
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it also musical.
It unites two arts into one."- Eugenio Montale.
It could not be more so than with Proust.
"What was once chic is now trashy Mme. Swann is a creature of fashion. She is passionately devoted to her aesthetic ideals, even if they are continually changing." ( Eric Karple from Paintings in Proust )
detail of 'The Cousins' by Watteau
""Nowadays it was rarely in Japanese kimonos that Odette received her intimates, but rather in the bright and billowing silk of a Watteau housecoat whose flowering foam she would make as though to rub gently over her bosom, and in which she basked, lolled disported herself with such an air of well-being, of cool freshness, taking such deep breaths, that she seemed to look on these garments not as something decorative, a mere setting for herself, but as necessary, in the same ways as her 'tub' or her daily 'constitutional,' to satisfy the requirements of her physiognomy and the niceties of hygiene. "
'La Gioconda' Leonardo da Vinci
"She used to often to say that she would go without bread rather than give up art and cleanliness, and that the burning of the 'Gioconda' would distress her infinitely more than the destruction, by the same element, of the 'millions' of people she knew. "
“The year before, at an evening party, he had heard a piece of music played on the piano and violin. At first he had appreciated only the material quality of the sounds which those instruments secreted. And it had been a source of keen pleasure when, below the delicate line of the violin-part, slender but robust, compact and commanding, he had suddenly become aware of the mass of the piano-part beginning to emerge in a sort of liquid rippling of sound, multiform but indivisible, smooth yet restless, like the deep blue tumult of the sea, silvered and charmed into a minor key by the moonlight. But then at a certain moment, without being able to distinguish any clear outline, or to give a name to what was pleasing him, suddenly enraptured, he had tried to grasp the phrase or harmony — he did not know which — that had just been played and that had opened and expanded his soul, as the fragrance of certain roses, wafted upon the moist air of evening, has the power of dilating one’s nostrils."
Fantin Latour's 'Roses & Lilies' 1888
An old cetifolia rose from the days of Victoria or before, carries the name Rosa Fantin Latour. Its intoxicating fragrance must have been what -like the music- stirred Swann's own soul. The rose is named after painter Henri Fantin-Latour.
"He would rap on the pane, and she would hear the signal, and answer, before going to meet him at the front door. He would find, lying open on the piano, some of her favourite music, the Valses des Roses, the Pauvre Fou of Tagliafico (which, according to the instructions embodied in her will, was to be played at her funeral); but he would ask her, instead, to give him the little phrase from Vinteuil's sonata. It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilled fingers upon a tuneless piano. The little phrase continued to be associated in Swann's mind with his love for Odette."
Proust's Vinteuil Sonata is fictional-but becomes irrevocably attached to Swann in his reveries & reality. Proust's own affection for composer Cesar Franck led him to seek out a string quartet to play Franck's Violin Sonata for him in his private rooms. Speculation from Proust devotees is that little phrase Swann heard was Franck's.
quotes in lilac italics from Proust's In Search of Lost Time
& from Alain de Botton's book presented by the BBC with Ralph Fiennes as ProustHow Proust Can Change you LifeProust's Vinteuil read more here & here
on Franck here
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the essence of an artist
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You've got to know the rules to break them. I spent a lot of time learning to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them." *
Alexander McQueen
Pablo Picasso Woman with a Crow
from his Rose Period
Alexander McQueen above & Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Haute Couture, below
*this is the essence of a true artist, I was taught this in my basic art courses over thirty years ago & it is none more visible in the work of these two geniuses-one with a long and full life, one with a full life-cut short.
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a reminder
" I'm an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's Beauty in the world." Alexander McQueen
The Madonna and Child with St John and Angels
Michelangelo
(c. 1497),
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lavender. grey & cometes : Karl's Chanel
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Kristen McMenamy looking like a Bourbon from a Nattier portrait
Why there will always be Chanel-at this point, one must admit it is the vision of Karl Lagerfeld. He is a magician pulling beautiful rabbits out of a Chanel boater. His Resort collection was staged at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera this week.
I love the stars -part of Chanel haute joallerie pieces- diamonds brooches pinned on vests, & featured as motifs in fabrics-
Chanel Fine Jewelry here
Chanel.com here
Vogue.com here
Comet images here
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Kristen McMenamy looking like a Bourbon from a Nattier portrait
Sophie de France
Madame Victoire of France
painted by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Why there will always be Chanel-at this point, one must admit it is the vision of Karl Lagerfeld. He is a magician pulling beautiful rabbits out of a Chanel boater. His Resort collection was staged at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera this week.
I love the stars -part of Chanel haute joallerie pieces- diamonds brooches pinned on vests, & featured as motifs in fabrics-
"Do not you believe, madam, said I,
that the clearness of this Night exceeds the Glory of the brightest day?
I confess, said she, the Day must yield to such a Night. "
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
"I wanted to cover women with constellations!
With stars!
Stars of all sizes!"
CHANEL
"I confess, said she, the Day must yield to such a Night.
I love the Stars, and could be heartily angry with the Sun for taking them from my sight."
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Chanel Fine Jewelry here
Chanel.com here
Vogue.com here
Comet images here
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Picasso,Dodie Rosekrans & an evening auction at Sotheby's
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The Picasso's have been sold.
You missed it! Sadly Picasso waits for no one.
The room above belonged to none other than late Dodie Rosekrans & was designed for her by the late great Michael Taylor in the 1970's. Last year when the charming and charmed Dodie Rosekrans died, author Diane Dorrans Saeks offered up this celebration of Rosekrans sparkling life here, at the Style Saloniste. The timelessly chic interior design of the Michael Taylor room sits well with the heft of the Picassos. For devotees of interior design & of Taylor, the dissolution of these rooms is a poignant farewell to both Taylor and Rosekrans.
Charles Moffett of Sotheby's said of Dodie Rosekrans: She"was blessed with a great eye. Her eclectic tastes & interests were not bounded by strictures, regulations or other people's values. She could always discern what was special, lively & lovely, often in the most idiosyncratic ways. Whether collecting couture, Old Master, Modern or Contemporary paintings, decorative arts or jewelry, the common threads were freshness, character, and above all, quality."
(from left to right) Picasso's painting of daughter, Paloma at age 7 in 1956, "Fillete aux nattes e au chapeau vert. "Couple a la guitare" painted when the artist was 88 years old. The subject of romantic love filled Picasso's late works and the couple here is the artist himself & his wife Jacqueline. The last of the Picasso's from the Rosekrans collection is "Femme" from his Surrealist period painted in 1930. Driven by the 16th c. anatomical drawings, Picasso produced a small series of paintings known as Bones-this work -of his wife Olga. (all images courtesy of Sotheby's)
The results of the sale are listed here, and the subject of each painting is explored at the Sotheby's site. The Paloma portrait sold for 5,906,500, the Couple sold for 9,602,500 and Femme for 7,922,500.
This evening Sotheby's offers other works from Dodie Rosekrans estate. Two important Warhol's will be up for auction. The works are considered some of Warhol's most important. The "Round Jackies", silkscreen and gold paint, were completed in 1964 and offer indelible images of Jacqueline Kennedy using photographs taken on the day of the Kennedy assassination. With this pair of images, Warhol captures the loss of the nation and a woman that carried much of the burden and sense of loss for the entire country. The tondos are part of eight of Warhol's finest screens in this series and also thought to be the first images of Jackie the artist worked with. The two offered this evening show a smiling Jackie & and the second a Jackie with all the tragedy of the day's events etched on her face. Interestingly the two Round Jackies have always been under the same ownership, this evening they will be offered individually. I guess the big question will be-if the bidder for the first Lot will secure the second.
Three works from artist Jacques Dubuffet. The three paintings represent a significant period in the artist's work, 1945-1954. Studying paintings of the insane and the art of children, Dubuffet set out to paint friends and sitters with a style of his own, working from the ideas in these studies. Bracing and sometimes grotesque paintings resulted.
If you need another Picasso shot-Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou brings together the paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by one of Picasso’s most ideal models and enduring passions. The exhibition is curated by the eminent Picasso biographer, John Richardson, together with Marie-Thérèse’s granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, who is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures. (from the Gagosian Gallery site)
With Picasso's suggestions that he paint a portrait, the many works of Marie Therese began-
The Gagosian exhibition takes up Picasso's work with more than 80 pieces from the years 1927 to 1940, including several works shown in the States for the first time.
for those that can not venture a Picasso fortunately Gagosian has a book to preorder here
more more more:
from the Style Saloniste here
Picasso at little augury here
Michael Taylor at little augury here
Warhol at little augury here
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The Picasso's have been sold.
You missed it! Sadly Picasso waits for no one.
The room above belonged to none other than late Dodie Rosekrans & was designed for her by the late great Michael Taylor in the 1970's. Last year when the charming and charmed Dodie Rosekrans died, author Diane Dorrans Saeks offered up this celebration of Rosekrans sparkling life here, at the Style Saloniste. The timelessly chic interior design of the Michael Taylor room sits well with the heft of the Picassos. For devotees of interior design & of Taylor, the dissolution of these rooms is a poignant farewell to both Taylor and Rosekrans.
Charles Moffett of Sotheby's said of Dodie Rosekrans: She"was blessed with a great eye. Her eclectic tastes & interests were not bounded by strictures, regulations or other people's values. She could always discern what was special, lively & lovely, often in the most idiosyncratic ways. Whether collecting couture, Old Master, Modern or Contemporary paintings, decorative arts or jewelry, the common threads were freshness, character, and above all, quality."
Dodie Rosekrans
images courtesy of Sotheby's
A trio of Picasso's sold last week at Sotheby's
The results of the sale are listed here, and the subject of each painting is explored at the Sotheby's site. The Paloma portrait sold for 5,906,500, the Couple sold for 9,602,500 and Femme for 7,922,500.
another view of the Rosekrans room
Sotheby's image
This evening Sotheby's offers other works from Dodie Rosekrans estate. Two important Warhol's will be up for auction. The works are considered some of Warhol's most important. The "Round Jackies", silkscreen and gold paint, were completed in 1964 and offer indelible images of Jacqueline Kennedy using photographs taken on the day of the Kennedy assassination. With this pair of images, Warhol captures the loss of the nation and a woman that carried much of the burden and sense of loss for the entire country. The tondos are part of eight of Warhol's finest screens in this series and also thought to be the first images of Jackie the artist worked with. The two offered this evening show a smiling Jackie & and the second a Jackie with all the tragedy of the day's events etched on her face. Interestingly the two Round Jackies have always been under the same ownership, this evening they will be offered individually. I guess the big question will be-if the bidder for the first Lot will secure the second.
May 10 at 7 p.m.
Three works from artist Jacques Dubuffet. The three paintings represent a significant period in the artist's work, 1945-1954. Studying paintings of the insane and the art of children, Dubuffet set out to paint friends and sitters with a style of his own, working from the ideas in these studies. Bracing and sometimes grotesque paintings resulted.
"Portrait de Edith Boissonnas"
If you need another Picasso shot-Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L’amour fou brings together the paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by one of Picasso’s most ideal models and enduring passions. The exhibition is curated by the eminent Picasso biographer, John Richardson, together with Marie-Thérèse’s granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, who is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures. (from the Gagosian Gallery site)
With Picasso's suggestions that he paint a portrait, the many works of Marie Therese began-
'You have an interesting face. I would like to do your portrait. I have a feeling we will do great things together'.--Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso with his painting of Marie Thérèse Walter. 1932
"Nude, Green Leaves and Bust"
photograph by Cecil Beaton
"Nude, Green Leaves and Bust"
Picasso's obsession produced the layered paintings seen in "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" with Picasso using other of his works of Marie Therese , the bust (shown below) in the painting. Picasso's "Visage" at left. and "Tete de Femme" at right
The Gagosian exhibition takes up Picasso's work with more than 80 pieces from the years 1927 to 1940, including several works shown in the States for the first time.
for those that can not venture a Picasso fortunately Gagosian has a book to preorder here
more more more:
from the Style Saloniste here
Picasso at little augury here
Michael Taylor at little augury here
Warhol at little augury here
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