little painted doll 🪆

My art and aesthetic side blog. Especially interested in representations of girlhood, whether through art history, fashion, ballet, or dolls.

[little-painted-doll]

Gerda Wegener, black and white illustrations.

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Swallows", by Fernand Cherer

French vintage postcard

[7pleiades7]

The Pearl (c. 1865) by Frederick Sandys (British, 1829 – 1904), oil on canvas, 40 cm (15.7 in) x 30 cm (11.8 in), Private Collection

[peaceinthestorm]

Henri Martin (1860-1943, French) ~ Dahlias et Pois de Senteurs, 1928

[Source: invaluable.com]

[simena]

Alexander Brantingham Simpson

[thenordroom]

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[charnel-grounds]

“Fair Rosamund”

unidentified English pre-Raphaelite artist

oil on canvas, 19th century

[beatricecenci]

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895)

Julie jouant du violon

[classicdavinci]

Paule Gobillard in a Ball Gown

 

by Berthe Morisot

[illustratus]

The Love Letter ― Follower of Petrus van Schendel

[dailyrothko]

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢

No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe), 1964

signed, partially titled and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1964 #15' (on the reverse) oil on canvas

93 × 69 in. (236.2 × 175.3 cm.)

📸 thanks to Mark Cashion who takes a lot of good pictures from auction houses and contributes them

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This is one of my personal favorites and it's up for auction because Agnes Gund, who bought it directly from Rothko, died and she was one of the good people in that world.

I hope a lot of these paintings on sale now don't disappear into private collections, but some of them probably will

[frostedmagnolias]

Love of Winter (1914)

by George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882–1925)

[queershakespeare]

replica by alessio carnevali // st. mary magdalene from the santa lucia triptych, painted c1470 by carlo crivelli

[iloveedvardmunchart]

Edvard Munch- Girl washing herself (1896)

[dozydawn]

jodie foster, 1993.

[7pleiades7]

Two Nymphs Embracing, (Detail), (1892), by Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 – 1895), oil on canvas, 63.8 x 79.4 cm (25.1 x 31.3 in), Private Collection

[frostedmagnolias]

Bodice

c. 1852-1856

silk, cotton, linen, metal

London Museum