Ba-rah, Persian Dancer (1910-1912)

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Season's Greetings! Postcards c.1912. So regarding plants, anything that is still green (and even better if it has berries) in is considered special.

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Cubism and The Trompe l’Oeil. Pablo picasso, Still life with Chair Canning, 1912; Juan Gris. Breakfast 1914; Georges Braque, Still Life, Fruit Dish,Ace of Clubs. On View at The Met. How the modern masters of Cubism use perspective to create illusions or confound the viewer.

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A 1912 crepe de chine & Chantilly lace gown for a shadowed night, three drops of L'Heure Bleue on a handkerchief, a winged troika in the darkness come fast from the Imperial Opera & the air is of old bells & frozen rivers & woodsmoke, carp frying in the restaurant on the square.

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Matisse Room at the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition 1912-1913

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She was born in upper middle class Warsaw to a Jewish father & Catholic mother & was drawing by the age of 10. From 1912-5 she lived in St Petersburg & married a Polish lawyer in 1916. Red Haired Woman (1922), Ira Perrot (1923), the Marquis (c1923) & Two Friends (1923)

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本日11月8日は『ブラム・ストーカー(1847-1912)』の生誕175年の誕生日です♪ 🇮🇪アイルランドのダブリンで生まれました。アイルランドの小説家。『吸血鬼ドラキュラ』の作者。
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Tobias and Parcae, 1912, by Jacek Malczewski

Tobit (Tobias), a pious man, is blinded by a bird which defecates in his eyes. In ancient Roman religion and myth, the Parcae were the female personifications of destiny who directed the lives/deaths of humans and gods.

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New Smart Ape Yacht Club Official Sale!
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I leave you with an enhancement of a 1912 autochrome by Alfonse Van Besten. A young lady posed amongst the marguerite daisies, 110 years ago. I thought you may like seeing a before & after comparison. I've not painted on any additional colour, just boosted what was already there.

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🐼 The mammals of Illinois and Wisconsin
Chicago, 1912.
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Komodo Dragon

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The local Sundanese people often call them "Ora", meaning land crocodile.-
According to the San Diego Zoo, no western scientist had ever seen a real Komodo dragon until 1912. They were only regarded as mythical creatures by non-locals before their eventual di

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His self-portrait is a homage to his blue city scenes of Stockholm. Self-portrait (1901), Tor Hedberg (c1912) & Ernest Thiel (1902). His image of Thiel is startling for its chromatic saturation

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