Edward Burra (British, 1905-1976), The Nitpickers, 1932. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, 74.5 x 39.4 cm.
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Edward Burra (British, 1905-1976), The Nitpickers, 1932. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, 74.5 x 39.4 cm.
Remedios Varo. Solar Music, 1955. Oil on masonite, 91 x 61 cm. Private collection.
Gijsbrecht Leytens - Winter Landscape with Skaters -
oil on panel, Height: 72 cm (28.3 in). Width: 89 cm (35 in)
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Gijsbrecht Leytens, formerly known as Meester van de Winterlandschappen or Master of the Winter Landscapes, (1586– after 1643 and before 1656) was a Flemish painter who specialized in landscapes and in particular winter landscapes.
Artists such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Abel Grimmer, as well as Denis van Alsloot and Daniel van Heil, had turned the winter landscape into one of the preferred subjects of Flemish painting. The theme was taken up by Dutch painters such as Hendrick Avercamp, Aert van der Neer and Anthonie Verstraelen. Gijsbrecht Leytens’ work is unique in distancing itself from the austere, dreary and unsettling landscapes that rely on human figures to come to life. Leytens succeeded in recreating winter while avoiding a simple academic rendering showing the trivial details of human activities. His winter landscapes shimmer in the light of sunny mornings. Leytens is regarded as the ‘poet of the frost’, since he succeeds in expressing the poetic beauty of winter by devices such as depicting the naked sun on a countryside caught in the ice. He stands out through the refinement of his subtle colour harmonies.
Gijsbrecht Leytens was influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. Like his contemporaries in Antwerp, Abraham Govaerts and Alexander Keirincx, Leytens painted wooded landscapes populated with small figures, bracketed by strong repoussoir trees.
As was common in Antwerp artist circles in the 17th century Gijsbrecht Leytens regularly collaborated with other painters who were specialists in a particular genre. Inventories of the 17th century provide evidence for collaborations between Leytens and artists such as Frans Francken the Younger, Sebastiaen Vrancx and Vincent Malo, who would paint the figures while Leytens painted the landscapes. Often Leytens reused his landscape designs and let his collaborators add different figures to them thus creating a different theme. This points to serial work in his workshop due to the great demand for his work.
Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Le Masque fatigué [The Tired Mask], 1919. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 46.2 x 35.3 cm.
Wanda Gág (American, 1893 - 1946): Spring (Spring in the Garden) (1927) (via Smithsonian)
Leonard Daley-Why, 1993
Illustrations for classic Russian folk tales and children’s songs, by Yury Vasnetsov. Postcards from 1968. (buy on etsy)
My favourite is the boy talking to bullfinch. We’re having an uncommonly cold & snowy October, so wearing valenki and talking to birds seems in place.
Otto Dix aka Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix (German, 1891-1969, b. Gera, Germany) - Night Over The City, 1913 Paintings: Oil on Paper and Cardboard
Oskar Bergman (Swedish, 1879-1963), Småstadsgata i Töväder I, 1945-46. Oil on canvas, 81 x 116 cm.
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Chorus of Birds by the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger
A. Prokofyev, “Jokes” - illustrated by Yury Vasnetsov (1980)
Isaak Brodsky (Ukrainian, 1883-1939)
Fireworks, N/D
Oil on canvas, 36 x 33 cm
A monkey entertains a ecologically impossible group of animals by reading from Le Rire, a satirical French magazine from the turn of the 20th century.
Milton`s Mysterious Dream via William Blake