Walter Sickert, Ennui c. 1914 (detail) The Camden Town Group were a British post-impressionist group founded in 1911 by Walter Sickert, who lived in Camden Town in the 1890s. Artists include: Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942 Charles Ginner 1878–1952 Harold Gilman 1876–1919 Spencer Gore 1878–1914 Robert Bevan 1865–1925 ◊ KidsArt!™ teaches children art and art appreciation, publishes news/reviews of London art exhibitions, […]
Rose Wylie, Installation view (detail), ‘Quack Quack’ Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (Nov. 2017 – Feb. 2018) — ◊ — Nicole Kidman — ◊ — KidsArt!™ teaches children art and art appreciation and publishes reviews and news of current and future London art exhibitions. For who we are and what we do, click here © KidsArt Limited, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi (‘Saviour of the World’), c.1500 (detail – full picture here!) … sold at Christie’s New York in November 2017 for: — ◊ — $400 m — ◊ — KidsArt!™ teaches children art and art appreciation and publishes reviews and news of current and future London art exhibitions. For who we are and what we do, click here © KidsArt Limited, 2017
Song Dynasty (960 – 1279) bowl – just 13cm (5″) across, in a “duck egg” blue-green glaze ∞ $38m (£28m), October 2017 ∞ (an auction porcelain record in Hong Kong) Ru-ware ( 汝窯) porcelain is the most celebrated of all wares in the history of Chinese ceramics, produced for the Imperial court for a short 20 year […]
A painting, usually on hinged panels, often used as an alter piece, invariably small in size and portable. Here’s a brilliant example: The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–1399) depicting King Richard II being presented to the Virgin Mary and Christ by John the Baptist and two English kings (Edward the Confessor and Edmund the Martyr). Painted […]
Paul Gauguin’s Nafea Faa Ipoipo? (When Will You Marry?), 1892 (detail) … sold in February 2015 for: — ◊ — £210.4 m ($300 m) — ◊ — KidsArt!™ teaches children art and art appreciation and publishes reviews and news of current and future London art exhibitions. For who we are and what we do, click here © KidsArt Limited, 2017
11 4 of cut sunflowers (the ‘Paris sunflowers‘): August – September 1887 — ♦ — 7 of vase with sunflowers (the ‘Arles sunflowers‘): August 1888 and January 1889 —
Cubism is an art movement which began in Paris around 1907 and became hugely influential in the period to the start of the first world war (1914) and thereafter. It broke away from centuries of traditional painting by rejecting a single viewpoint and showing people and objects in multi-dimensions. Cubist artists fractured their subjects into geometric forms […]
