peinture des 19e et 20e siècles
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Díaz exhibited many pictures at the Paris Salon, and was decorated in 1851 with the rank of Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d’honneur.
Simon de Vos was a Flemish painter, graphic artist and art collector, a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp.
Simon de Vos specialized early in his career in cabinet and genre painting in the style of the Utrecht Caravagistes. His depictions of merry company and scenes from fables are well known. From about 1640 he increasingly painted large-scale religious, allegorical and historical scenes in the style of Peter Paul Rubens and Antoni van Dyck. Among his pupils was Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679).
Simon de Vos was financially successful: by the end of his life he owned four estates in Antwerp and a collection of 290 paintings.
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Maurice de Vlaminck was a French artist renowned for his vibrant use of color and contribution to the Fauvist movement. Born in Paris in 1876, Vlaminck's early work was marked by a passionate application of paint and a bold palette, drawing inspiration from Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse. His participation in the 1905 Salon d'Automne, alongside other Fauvist painters, was met with critical disdain, leading to the term "fauves" (wild beasts) being coined to describe their unorthodox use of intense color.
Vlaminck's career was characterized by a continuous exploration of color and form. Early on, he depicted scenes of daily life, landscapes, and portraits, imbuing them with a sense of motion through his dynamic brushwork. Notable works from this period include "Sur le zinc" (At the Bar) and "L'homme a la pipe" (Man Smoking a Pipe), which highlighted his departure from traditional portraiture and landscapes towards more expressive and mood-driven compositions. His landscapes, in particular, showcased a disregard for detail in favor of conveying atmosphere, a technique that was revolutionary at the time.
Throughout his life, Vlaminck's style evolved, showing influences from Post-Impressionism and later, a more monochromatic palette reminiscent of Paul Cézanne. Despite this evolution, he maintained a critical stance towards Cubism and its leading figure, Pablo Picasso, believing that Cubism had led French painting into a "wretched dead end". In his later years, Vlaminck's work adopted a darker palette and more naturalistic style, moving away from the Fauvist emphasis on color to explore the dramatic and expressive potential of landscapes and seascapes.
Vlaminck's impact on modern art is undeniable. His works are held in prestigious collections worldwide, including the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, attesting to his enduring influence and the continued fascination with his bold, expressive approach to painting.
For collectors and experts in art and antiques, Vlaminck's oeuvre represents a pivotal moment in the history of modern art, where the emotional intensity and visual impact of color were explored as never before. To stay informed on new product sales and auction events related to Maurice de Vlaminck, signing up for updates is recommended, offering exclusive insights into the vibrant world of Fauvism and modernist painting.
Imi Knoebel (born Klaus Wolf Knoebel) is a German artist. Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. Knoebel lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Reinis Zusters is an Australian artist of Latvian descent who lived and worked in Australia.
He painted many striking large landscapes of Australia, conveying the rich nature and colors of that country. He was particularly inspired by the Blue Mountains, to which he dedicated triptychs.
For Australia's bicentennial in 1988, Zusters completed his major work, a series of large-scale epic panels entitled The Birth of a Nation.
His works are represented in numerous public and private collections in Australia and abroad.
Melchior d'Hondecoeter was Dutch animalier painter, was born in Utrecht and died in Amsterdam. After the start of his career, he painted virtually exclusively bird subjects, usually exotic or game, in park-like landscapes. Hondecoeter's paintings featured geese (brent goose, Egyptian goose and red-breasted goose), fieldfares, partridges, pigeons, ducks, northern cardinal, magpies and peacocks, but also African grey crowned cranes, Asian sarus cranes, Indonesian yellow-crested cockatoos, an Indonesian purple-naped lory and grey-headed lovebirds from Madagascar.
