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Girl with still life, 1953, Rafael Zabaleta

Medium: oil,canvas

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Chantal Regnault’s Ballroom Portraits

Chantal Regnault’s portraits captured the emerging and vibrant ballroom scene in Harlem, 1989-1992.

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“I write, paint, draw. But work never keeps me from moving from port to port, between Villefrance and its famous hotel Welcome, between Villefrance and the beautiful Porto Venere, with its phantom houses, phantom rocks, phantom church, its phantom of Lord Byron. Work does not keep me from an occasional horse ride. Work does not keep me from even riding a lion. Furthermore, my horse and my lion get along splendidly.”

(Stills and quote from “La Villa Santo-Sospir” – a short documentary from 1952 showcasing the magical home of Jean Cocteau directed by Jean Cocteau himself.)

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French artist/writer/filmmaker Jean Cocteau and his lover actor Jean Marais, Paris, 1939, photo by Cecil Beaton

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Oluwarotimi (Rotimi) Adebiyi Wahab Fani-Kayode (20 April 1955 – 21 December 1989) was a gay, Nigerian-born photographer, who moved to England at the age of 12 to escape the Nigerian Civil War. The main body of his work was created between 1982 and 1989. He explored the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through stylized portraits and compositions. He died in a London hospital of a heart attack while recovering from an AIDS-related illness on 21 December 1989. At the time of his death, he was living in London, with his life partner and collaborator Alex Hirst.

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Painted from Nature, 1937, Victor Brauner

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Witchtober 2020 by Tena Galović

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How do you fabrics : Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873)

German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. He was a virtuoso in the art of conveying the texture of fabrics, furs and jewellery, to which he paid no less attention than to the face. He painted very rapidly and very fluently, designing most of his compositions directly in the canvas. His portraits are elegant, refined, lifelike, and pleasantly idealized.

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Tree-ness House by Akihisa Hirata

Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata has completed a multi-storey project in Tokyo’s Otsuka district, which expands upon his affinity with nature-inspired architecture. although it is primarily a residential building, ‘tree-ness house’ also contains spaces for commercial tenants at its lower levels. located on a deep but narrow site, the slender design employs an organic layering system to generate a series of three-dimensional spaces that relate to the building’s surroundings.

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SINGULAR E PLURAL - photography: Zee Nunes - styling: Pedro Sales - hair: Shin Arima - makeup: Frankie Boyd - models: Hyun Ji Shin & Elibeidy Danis - Vogue Brazil February 2018

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CONTE JAPONAIS - model: Tony Thornburg - photography: Sølve Sundsbø - styling: Mattias Karlsson - hair: Malcolm Edwards - makeup: Sam Bryant - set design: Max Bellhops - creative direction: Thomas Persson - Luncheon Magazine #5 Spring/Summer 2018