Grandiloquences

Paintings, performers, and other passions ... in the grand manner (or not)

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Hans Albert von Behr (German-American, 1902-1990)

Reverie, 1930's

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Burt Glinn, Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, New York, 1951.

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W. Eugene Smith

6th Ave at 28th Street During Snowstorm, 1958

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“Der Achensee mit Blick auf den Ortsteil Scholasticka, am Nordufer” (The Achensee [Lake Achen] with a View of the Scholasticka District, on the North Shore). Franz Richard Unterberger (Austrian; 1838–1902). Oil on canvas, n.d. Dorotheum, Vienna.

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“Still Life: Vase of Peonies.” Edmund Charles Tarbell (American; 1862–1938). Oil on canvas. ca. 1925. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Édouard Boubat Self-portrait with Lella, Paris 1951

"In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss." Édouard Boubat

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by Gen Otsuka / 大束元 Reflection in Rain, c. 1950

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Wife and Children of Sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas, Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1935

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From the Bus, New York, Photo by Robert Frank, 1958

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Model in a Brooks Brothers shirt Photographer: John Rawlings (American; 1912–1970) Vogue, August 15, 1949

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David Bailey, Veruschka, 1965 Bert Stern (American; 1929–2013) Gelatin silver print Christie’s, London

Signed in red crayon and titled in pencil (verso)

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Fishing Boats, Collioure (Bateaux, pêcheurs, Collioure) André Derain (French; 1880–1954) 1905 Oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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La Roue de la Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune) Edward Burne-Jones (British; 1833–1898) 1875–83 Oil on canvas Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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Evil Omen Adolph Gottlieb (American; 1903–1974) 1946 Oil on canvas Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

“I disinterred some relics from the secret crypt of Melpomene to unite them through the pictograph, which has its own internal logic. Like those early painters, who placed their images on the grounds of rectangular compartments, I juxtaposed my pictographic images, each self-contained within the painter’s rectangle, to be ultimately fused within the mind of the beholder.”

— Adolph Gottlieb’s statement in the exhibition catalogue for Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, 1944

© The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by ARS, New York, NY

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“Deauville, La Plage.” Lucien Adrion (French; 1889–1953). Oil on canvas, undated. Lempertz, Cologne.

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Paris’ dom (The Judgement of Paris) Harald Giersing (Danish; 1881–1927) 1909 Oil on composition board Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen