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Great Discoveries: Rare Revolutionary War Sketch Found in Apartment

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The other is a 1782 painting created by American-French military engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant depicting a woman serving troops food at American encampments. This watercolor sketch of Revolutionary War soldiers sold for $129.99 Dan Kobialka is a self-employed content writer and editor with about a decade of experience.

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Lost Fine Art: ‘Medicine’ by Gustav Klimt

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Upon presenting his paintings, ‘Philosophy’, ‘Medicine’ and ‘Jurisprudence’, Klimt came under attack for ‘pornography’ and ‘perverted excess’ in the paintings. None of the paintings would go on display in the university.

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“People Are Rewarded by Close Looking” – Kathan Brown of Crown Point Press on the Enduring Excitement of Printmaking

Art Dealers Association of America

She never stopped doing watercolors and drawings, even though it was not easy during the Depression when she was working full-time. I made drawings and paintings with my mother and helped my father develop photographs in our basement. My mother went to the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a practicing artist all her life.

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Lost Fine Art: The White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry

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The painting is 95.3 Oudry produced mainly portraits, but devoted his creative life and the still life with fruit and animal painting. His painting “The White Duck” was part of the Walpole collection, which was exhibited at the country house Houghton Hall. Its value is estimated at around eight million dollars.

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So You Found A John George Brown Painting?

Harrison Appraisals

In fact, his true calling was painting. Genre Painter Brown painted both landscapes and portraits. However, by the mid-1870s, he began focusing almost exclusively on painting the working children of late 19 th century America. Brown’s street urchin paintings include specific themes that contributed to their popularity.

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Missing Fine Art: Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh

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First sold in 1897 by Van Gogh’s sister-in-law for 300 francs, the painting was subsequently bought and sold until being acquired by Siegfried Kramarsky, who fled to Lisbon in November 1939 and arrived January 1940 in New York. Paul Gachet who took care of Van Gogh during the final months of his life. paid US$82.5 paid US$82.5

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Breakdance – 6817

Art Peritus

Wilson graciously donated this series of 53 original watercolors as well as the reproduction print-rights to benefit the Cottonwood Institute, an organization that connects underprivileged children with nature through outdoor activities and skill development.