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Exhibition Review
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1067–9
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Reviewer:
Tobin, Claudia (Tobin, Claudia)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Great Britain
subjects:
Still lifes / British art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain Pallant House Gallery, Chichester | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
13. Roses, columbine and poppies in a glass vase on a marble ledge with some grapes, by Simon Verelst. Oil on canvas, 45.7 by 35.6 cm. (Private collection; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
Attributed works:
14. Kettle, teapot, breadboard, matches, by Eric Ravilious. 1939. Watercolour and pencil, 39.3 by 51.9 cm. (Private collection; Fry Art Gallery Society; Bridgeman Images; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
Attributed works:
15. Through the looking glass, by Jean Cooke. 1960. Oil on canvas, 60.8 by 50.8 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester).
Article
Below the surface of Braque's 'Pitcher, candlestick and black fish'
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 968-75
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Author:
Dijkema, Desirae (Dijkema, Desirae)
Subjects
artists:
Braque, Georges
dates:
1940-1949
museums and institutions:
Menil Collection, Houston, United States
subjects:
French art / Technical analysis / Infrared photography / Still lifes / Second World War / Interiors / overpainting / Conservation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pitcher, candlestick, and black fish (Vase et poisson noir) (after treatment), by Georges Braque. 1943. Oil on canvas, 64.6 by 48.6 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Menil Collection, Houston).
Attributed works:
10. L’homme au foulard, by Georges Braque. 1929. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Current location unknown; from N. Worms de Romilly: Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque, ed. N. Mangin, Paris 1959, III).
Attributed works:
11. Reflected infra-red image of the reverse of Fig.1, after lining removal; the image has been flipped so that the composition is seen as it would be when viewed from the front.
Attributed works:
12. Digital estimation of the third underlying composition of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lower-right corner.
Attributed works:
14. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lower-right corner and imaged under magnification.
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lower-right quadrant.
Attributed works:
3. Reflected infra-red image of Fig.1. (Menil Collection, Houston).
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4. Transmitted infra-red image of Fig.1. (Menil Collection, Houston).
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5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the eyes.
Attributed works:
6. Woman at an easel (green screen), by Georges Braque. 1936. Oil on canvas, 92 by 73 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
7. Digital estimation of the composition immediately underlying Fig.1. (Menil Collection, Houston).
Attributed works:
8. Woman with a mandolin, by Georges Braque. 1937. Oil on canvas, 130.2 by 97.2 cm. (© Artists Rights Society, NY and DACS, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
9. Femme, by Georges Braque. 1936. Oil on canvas, 65 by 54 cm. (Current location unknown; from N. Worms de Romilly: Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque, ed. N. Mangin, Paris 1959).
Short Notice
Looking slowly with Cezanne
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 422
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Author:
Smith, Paul (Smith, Paul)
Subjects
artists:
Cézanne, Paul
dates:
1870-1909
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
subjects:
French art / Perception / Landscapes (visual works) / Still lifes / Bathers / Portraits / Exhibitions
subjects:
Techniques / Paintings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Basket of apples, by Paul Cezanne. c.1893. Oil on canvas, 60 by 85 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
10. Curtain, pitcher and a fruit bowl, by Paul Cezanne. 1893–94. Oil on canvas, 59.7 by 73 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
11. Still life with apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1893–94. Oil on canvas, 65.8 by 81.6 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
12. Still life with a ginger jar and eggplants, by Paul Cezanne. 1893–94. Oil on canvas, 72.4 by 91.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
14. Mont Sainte-Victoire, by Paul Cezanne. 1902–06. Oil on canvas, 64.8 by 81.3 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
15. Mont Saint-Victoire seen from the Bibémus Quarry, by Paul Cezanne. c.1895–99. Oil on canvas, 65.1 by 81.3 cm. (Baltimore Museum of Art; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
16. Still life with plaster cupid, by Paul Cezanne. c.1894. Oil on paper on board, 70.6 by 57.3 cm. (Courtauld Institute Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
17 and 18. Cupid, by Hébert fils mouleur, after François Duquesnoy. c.1900. Plaster, height 45.7 cm. Photographed at a distance of approx. 65 cm. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
19. Bathers (Les grandes baigneuses), by Paul Cezanne. c.1894–1905. Oil on canvas, 127.2 by 196.1 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Auvers, panoramic view, by Paul Cezanne. 1873–75. Oil on canvas, 65.2 by 81.3 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
20. Detail of Fig.19, showing the head of the figure fifth from the left. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
21. Ginger jar. China, c.1900. Stoneware, height 13.7 cm. Photographed from a distance of approx. 22 cm. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
22. Detail of Fig.25, showing the eye-socket on the right of the hindmost skull. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
23. The hindmost skull shown in Fig.25. (Atelier Cezanne, Aix-en- Provence; photograph the author).
Attributed works:
24. Still life with ginger jar, sugar bowl and oranges, by Paul Cezanne. 1902–06. Oil on canvas, 60.6 by 73.3 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
25. Three skulls on a patterned carpet, by Paul Cezanne. 1904. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 65 cm. (Kunstmuseum Solothurn; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Madame Cezanne in a red armchair, by Paul Cezanne. c.1877. Oil on canvas, 72.4 by 55.9 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
4. Madame Cezanne in a yellow chair, by Paul Cezanne. 1888–90. Oil on canvas, 80.9 by 64.9 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
5. The sea at L’Estaque behind trees, by Paul Cezanne. 1878–79. Oil on canvas, 73 by 92 cm. (Musée Picasso, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. The Gulf of Marseilles seen from L’Estaque, by Paul Cezanne. 1878–79. Oil on canvas, 59 by 73 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Photograph of the motif in Fig.8 taken on 27th September 2022 at 17:24. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
8. Cliffs in L’Estaque, by Paul Cezanne. 1882–85. Oil on canvas, 73 by 92 cm. (Collection Museu de Arte de São Paolo; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
9. Betschdorf jug. c.1900. Stoneware, height 25.8 cm. (Photograph the author).
Article
Cut from the same cloth: a composite canvas by Paul Cezanne
12/2022 | 1437 | 164
Pages: 1224-1233
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Author:
Aebi, Kiko (Aebi, Kiko)
Author:
Haddad, Abed (Haddad, Abed)
Subjects
artists:
Cézanne, Paul / Renoir, Pierre-Auguste / Degas, Edgar
collectors and dealers:
Vollard, Ambroise
dates:
1870-1879
museums and institutions:
King's College, Cambridge, Great Britain / Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain / Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
subjects:
Still lifes / Nineteenth-century French art / Scientific analysis / Scanning macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) spectroscopy / Technical analysis / Reconstructions / Fragments / Pigments
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still life with apples, by Paul Cezanne. c.1878. Oil on canvas, 19 by 27 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, lent by the Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge, Keynes Collection).
Attributed works:
10. Study of heads, by Pierre-August Renoir. 1890s. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38 cm. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
2. Glass and apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1879–80. Oil on canvas. 31.5 by 40 cm. (Rudolf Staechelin, Basel).
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3. Female nude (Leda), by Paul Cezanne. c.1887. Oil on canvas stretched on pasteboard, 44 by 62 cm. (Von der Heydt- Museum, Wuppertal).
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4. Reconstituted study sheet of drawings by Paul Cezanne, subsequently divided into three separate compositions: Sheet of studies, including a Skull (left), A historical or Biblical scene (The rape of Lucretia) (top right), and A historical or Biblical scene (bottom right). (From W. Feilchenfeldt, J. Warman and D. Nash: The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne, www.cezannecatalogue.com).
Attributed works:
5. Image of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left) unframed and in their original configuration, revealing contiguous brush strokes across both pictures. (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
6. X-ray radiograph of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left). (Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
7. MA-XRF maps of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left), showing the distribution of iron (Fe), calcium (Ca), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr) and mercury (Hg). (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
8. Lead L-series (Pb-L) MA-XRF map of Glass with apples (right) and Still life with apples (left), with inset details magnifying holes along the edge of the original canvas. (© Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2022; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
9. Five apples, by Paul Cezanne. 1877–78. Oil on canvas, 12.7 by 25.5 cm. (Private collection).
Article
The development of the still lifes of Frans Snijders up to 1615
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 568-577
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Author:
Meijer, Fred G. (Meijer, Fred G.)
Subjects
artists:
Snyders, Frans
dates:
1600-1649
places:
Antwerp
subjects:
Flemish painting / Still lifes / Animals / Birds
subjects:
Kitchen scenes / Hunting scenes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still life with a hare, lobster and fruit, by Frans Snijders. Here dated to c.1613–14. Oil on panel, 106.4 by 75 cm. (Photographed in 2012 after restoration; private collection, on long-term loan to the Frans Snijders Museum, Antwerp).
Attributed works:
10. Still life with fowl and game, by Frans Snijders. 1614. Oil on canvas, 156 by 218 cm. (Walraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne).
Attributed works:
11. Dishes with oysters, fruit and wine, by Osias Beert. c.1620–25. Oil on panel, 52.9 by 73.4 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
13. Still life with dead game, fruits, and vegetables in a market by Frans Snijders. 1614. Oil on canvas, 212.1 by 308.6 cm. (Art Institute, Chicago).
Attributed works:
14. Still life on a kitchen table, by Frans Snijders. c.1610–12(?). Oil on panel, 58.5 by 106.9 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
15. A game and fruit seller’s stall, by or after Frans Snijders. c.1610–12(?). Pen and wash and black chalk on paper, 27.8 by 40.5 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
16. A game seller in his stall, by Frans Snijders. c.1610–12(?). Oil on panel, 127 by 89 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
17. Detail of Fig.1; 18. Detail of Still life of game with a tazza of grapes, by Frans Snijders. c.1614. Oil on panel. (Hessische Museumslandschaft, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel); 19. Detail of Still life of game, vegetables, fruit and a lobster, by Frans Snijders. c.1613. Oil on canvas. (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam); 19. Detail of Fig.1, showing the lobster; 20. Detail of Fig.14, showing the lobster; 21. Detail of Still life of fruit with a squirrel, by Frans Snijders. 1616. Oil on copper. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), showing the grapes; and 22. Detail of Fig.4, showing the grapes.
Attributed works:
2. The recognition of Philopoemen, by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snijders. c.1609. Oil on canvas, 201 by 313.5 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
22. Table in a larder with a page, by Frans Snijders. c.1615. Oil on canvas, 125.7 by 198.1 cm. (Wallace Collection, London).
Attributed works:
23. Still life with a dead hare and plucked fowl, after Frans Snijders. 17th century. Oil on panel, 105 by 73 cm. (Location unknown).
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24. Larder scene with a young page, by Frans Snijders. c.1611. Oil on canvas, 123 by 186 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
25–27. Details of the hare in Figs.1, 15 and 24.
Attributed works:
28. Detail of Still life of fruit with a dead hare, by Frans Snijders. c.1617. Oil on canvas, 124.5 by 127 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
3. Kitchen scene, by Frans Snijders. c.1608(?) Oil on canvas, 138 by 245 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
4. Still life with a tazza of grapes in a niche, by Frans Snijders (signed). Here dated to c.1610. Oil on panel, 89 by 62.1 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Attributed works:
5. Cook preparing food, by Frans Snijders. c.1610. Oil on canvas, 88.5 by 120 cm. (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne).
Attributed works:
6. Still life with game and a hare, by Frans Snijders. 1612. Oil on panel, 95.5 by 125.6 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
7. Still life of game and a tazza of grapes, by Frans Snijders. 1613. Oil on canvas, 59 by 87 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
8. Still life of game and a tazza of grapes, by Frans Snijders. 1613. Oil on panel, 55 by 106 cm. (Location unknown).
Attributed works:
9. Larder scene with a page, by Frans Snijders. 1613. Oil on panel, 125.1 by 203.8 cm. (Location unknown).
Exhibition Review
‘The Immensity of the Universe’ in the Art of Giovanna Garzoni
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 799-802
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Reviewer:
Greenfield, Ingrid Anna (Greenfield, Ingrid Anna )
Subjects
artists:
Garzoni, Giovanna
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Still lifes / Botanical drawings / Natural history / Women artists / Courts (social groups) / Exoticism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
‘The Immensity of the Universe’ in the Art of Giovanna Garzoni Palazzo Pitti, Florence 28th May–28th June 2020 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Self-portrait as Apollo, by Giovanna Garzoni. c.1618– 20. Tempera on parchment, 42 by 33 cm. (Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome; exh. Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Attributed works:
11. Porcelain vase with tulips and a pear, by Giovanna Garzoni. c.1648– 53. Tempera on parchment, 66.7 by. 49.8 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Attributed works:
12. Plate with plum, jasmine and walnuts, by Giovanna Garzoni. c.1655– 62. Tempera on parchment, 23.5 by 38.5 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; exh. Palazzo Pitti, Florence).
Publication Received
Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered. Edited by Adrian Eeles
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 271-272
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Reviewer:
Holliday, Matthew (Holliday, Matthew)
Subjects
artists:
Hodgkin, Eliot
subjects:
British art / Still lifes / Tempera
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered Edited by Adrian Eeles. 144 pp. incl. 130 col. ills. (Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon, in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019),  35. ISBN 978–1–911300–57–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. May, from the Twelve Months of the Year, by Eliot Hodgkin. 1951. Tempera on board, 26.7 by 22.3 cm. (Ramsbury Manor Foundation; photograph AJ Photography).
Book Review
Giorgio de Chirico: Catalogo Generale. Volume 2: 1910–1975; Volume 3: 1913–1976; and Volume 4: 1913–1975. Edited by Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 83-84
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Reviewer:
Radford, Robert (Radford, Robert)
Subjects
art literature:
Catalogues raisonnés
artists:
Chirico, Giorgio de
dates:
1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1979
sources:
Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy
subjects:
Metaphysical art / Copies / Still lifes / Flower pieces / Horses (animals) / Portraits / Theatre design / Poetry
subjects:
Italian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Giorgio de Chirico: Catalogo Generale Edited by Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico. Volume 2: 1910–1975. 520 pp. incl. approx. 500 col. + b. & w. ills. (Maretti Editore, Imola, 2015), £275. ISBN 978–889–885–559–9. Volume 3: 1913–1976. 472 pp. incl. 475 col. + b. & w. ills. (Maretti Editore, Imola, 2016), £275. ISBN 978–8–898–85578–0. Volume 4: 1913–1975. 512 pp. incl. 451 col. + 475 b. & w. ills. (Maretti Editore, Imola, 2018), £275. ISBN 978–88–9397–000–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. School of gladiators: the fighting, by Giorgio De Chirico. 1928. Oil on canvas, 160 by 240 cm. (Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Rik Wouters: A Retrospective. Edited by Frederik Leen
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 803-804
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Reviewer:
Adams, Alexander (Adams, Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Wouters, Rik / Ensor, James
collectors and dealers:
Giroux, Georges
dates:
1880-1889 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Sculpture / Paintings / Prints / Pastels / Etchings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium / Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
places:
Belgium / Brussels / Antwerp
subjects:
Belgian sculpture / Belgian painting / Exhibition catalogues / Busts / Portraits / Nudes / Sitters / Self-portraits / Still lifes / Landscapes (visual works) / Fauvism / World War (1914-1918)
Exhibition Review
The Paston Treasure: Riches and Rarities of the Known World. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 772-774
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
artists:
Stone, Nicholas, the Younger / Stone, Henry / Grebber, Nicholaes de
buildings:
Oxnead Hall, Oxnead, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Paston, William, 1st Baronet / Paston, Clement / Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Gold / Silverwork / Furniture / Art objects / Books / Documents / Music scores / Musical instruments
museums and institutions:
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
Great Britain / Norwich / United States / New Haven
subjects:
Collections / Collections, Private / Collecting / Country houses / Still lifes / Vanitas / Portraits / Heraldry / Cups / Jugs / Flagons / Poetry / Music / Protestantism / Alchemy / Science / Grand tours / Patronage / Commissions / Correspondence / Inventories / Archives / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Pigments / Identification / Attribution / Iconography
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Nautilus cup, attributed to Nicolaes de Grebber. 1592. Nautilus shell, silver gilt, glass and enamel, height 26.5 cm. (Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
1. Pair of flagons. London, 1598. Silver gilt, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
2. The Paston treasure. c.1663. Canvas, 166.8 by 247.5 cm. (Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
Western art unattributed:
3. Panel with the arms of the Paston family. Florence, c.1638. Pietre dure, 49 by 37 cm. (Sir Henry PastonBedingfeld, Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk; exh. Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery).
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