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Goya’s portrait of Bartolomé Sureda y Miserol (c1803/4) is one of my favourites. The image is one of a debonair young man with the artist using flashes of colour to bring excitement to the image. Miserol was a clever man who became an industrialist.
The gallery has a number of sensuous paintings in the collection. We are more use to thinking of his transcendental saints but here flesh is stretched & rippled into erotic form. An artist whose work is always exciting.
Watts submitted a drawing for the Houses of Parliament & won a prize in 1843 & a bursary. This allowed him to travel to Italy. Lady Holland (c1843-4), The Golden Age (1840) & Fiesole, Tuscany (1840s)
I think his Madonna Litta is his finest mother & child. It is the exaltation of love & serenity at a spiritual level. Madonna Litta (1490) with detail & original study for the Virgin. Some think the work may have been finished, or painted in part, by his student Boltraffio
Thread: I extended my project to mark my 50th birthday until Monday 4th May as I hadn’t finished sorting orders yesterday & to be fair to everyone.
The idea is to make original art accessible to everyone & provide some comfort during a gloomy time.
As you would expect framing & gift wrapping are not included.
Lovers (2019)
Outside of Europe I use DHL courier. The courier will need your mobile (cell) telephone number.
Apollo (2019) & Spring Flowers (2015)
Another feature of his late work was a series of self-portraits (1914 & three from 1915). Here we see the painter observe himself with wry amusement. With financial & emotional freedom his work had bloomed.