To Paint, To Have Painted

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paquitotuntun:

Sunil Gupta is an Indian born artist and photographer based in London. Queer is his first monograph and offers a comprehensive overview of his work from the 1970s to the present. For decades he has explored narratives of contemporary gay life; tackled issues of gender and sexuality; and documented his own experiences living with AIDS. Queer is published by Prestel and is available onAmazon.

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jockohomo: The Boxer, Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869-1939) - Signed and dated ‘C. Somov/1933’ (lower right); recently sold at Christies ‘Russian Works of Art & Fabergé’ sale for $1,195,830. Painting inscribed with colour notes (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 21½ x 18 1/8 in. (54.8 x 46 cm.) Together with the pair of boxing gloves used in the composition.

jockohomo:

The Boxer, Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869-1939) - Signed and dated ‘C. Somov/1933’ (lower right); recently sold at Christies ‘Russian Works of Art & Fabergé’ sale for $1,195,830. Painting inscribed with colour notes (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 21½ x 18 1/8 in. (54.8 x 46 cm.) Together with the pair of boxing gloves used in the composition.

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pallassofiko: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwelloil on canvas, exhibited 1840

pallassofiko:

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Richard Rothwell
oil on canvas, exhibited 1840

karvna: Frank Cadogan Cowper was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary scenes, described as “The last of the Pre-Raphaelites”.He worked in both watercolours and oils, and also worked as book illustrator - providing the illustrations for Sir Sidney Lee’s The Imperial Shakespeare.As art fashion changed Cowper increasingly exhibited his portrait paintings but still continued to produce historical and literary works. Frank Cadogan Cowper Vanity (1907) Oil on canvas. 

karvna:

Frank Cadogan Cowper was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary scenes, described as “The last of the Pre-Raphaelites”.
He worked in both watercolours and oils, and also worked as book illustrator - providing the illustrations for Sir Sidney Lee’s The Imperial Shakespeare.
As art fashion changed Cowper increasingly exhibited his portrait paintings but still continued to produce historical and literary works.

Frank Cadogan Cowper Vanity (1907) Oil on canvas.