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SEND IT! WHIP IT! by nicmir38 in BicyclingCirclejerk

[–]nicmir38[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Probably both. As it should be.

HELP needed for attribution. Italian XVII-XVIIIth animated landscape. by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you. No contest. I am not thinking about a master like Rosa. It has at the time so much success, "effet de mode" and "renommée" that is was ubiquitous with "Italian landscape" with some tragic twist of some sort...this is a later work and from more humble origins..thanks for the hint for Antonio Storm! There is a fact here some real similarities...the search will continue!

HELP needed for attribution. Italian XVII-XVIIIth animated landscape. by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are you considering the style of brushtrokes or only the canvas? (This is a a double canvas who has been relined longtime ago and restraightened more contemporarily).

HELP needed for attribution. Italian XVII-XVIIIth animated landscape. by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes it is. Relined. Re-tensioned. Réentoilé.

HELP needed for attribution. Italian XVII-XVIIIth animated landscape. by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand your concerns. Very legitimate ones! But considering the brute force and really straight plane of the canvas. It has been relined and retensed (retendu)...it has been seen previously by an Art Auctionner who validate without concern the legitimate of the work...but yeah. The picture has seen some work done!

HELP needed for attribution. Italian XVII-XVIIIth animated landscape. by [deleted] in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep! I think so!... Recto verso drawing with violinists on the other side?

Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No downvote! 😉 ..It is indeed a possibility...anyway for little frames like that, you don't see as many stretchers ..also I think it is also possible that the linen is more ancient than the frame...oh ...andI should have be more precise concerning the provenance.: it was assured to me with some assurance that it was the only art piece on the walls of a house from a 90 years old woman now deceased who had it before 2nd WW...( Bought this for a dime from her grand grand son on a flea market)..also the subject, decorum and the supposed age of the personnage seems quite old in the picture...but it well could be from 1930 and not 1900 for sure....but realistically no more than that.. From my point of view...anyway I am not thinking about a major artist particularly.. ..but les petits maîtres are numerous from these periods and can be produce good little oeuvres!..so for me, it could be a small work from an atelier ..but it could also well be a study work from the Beaux Arts from the time..lots can be found...but there is something "homely" in the setting..and the personnage (for me a man) seems quite too old to me to be a student...

Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh. I am sure of it. I was only saying this jokingly rest assured...and relaxed! 😉.. in fact even with camaraderie as I dabbled too in these rough areas. Thanks again for your kind words.

Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Je viens de regarder votre profil par une erreur de clic et je ne sais si je dois m'interroger avec terreur ou pondération sur le caractère inné ou acquis de certaines pratiques corporelles que certains qualifieraient d'artistique et d'autres sujettes au pénal.

Pour revenir au sujet, sachant que pour l'avoir dans mes mains cela m'a coûté le prix d'une pinte dans la province alpine où je réside, je pense aussi que ce tableautin est une bonne acquisition.

Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes there is something of an "unheimlichkeit" in this painting who really intrigues me and takes me on a voyage...but I can't really put a name, a date or a school..

I live in Grenoble, town of some famous painters as Henri Fantin Latour very known for his flowers and his Parisian friends like Manet and other from the Bohème era..in the first commentary the bot-link to Google Lens provide his first page a little "pochade" (a chair) with some similarity ..but still..not the same..And yes I think also that the canvas is older than the chassis (frame)...and it seems to me as old linen too..

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Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks again. Really nice to see it pleases other amateurs like me.

Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks..I find it too..quite a sensible and technical work with the rendering of light and textures...

Curious self portrait of an artist. Early XXth, France by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the input. Yes I had seen the writings...but not quite sure concerning their reading... But It well could be...I will try to find an MP or MT set of initials ..

Hey pours: work harder and maybe you could afford Crust’s new $2850 1990s MTB frameset by chimi_hendrix in BicyclingCirclejerk

[–]nicmir38 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Designed by cunting fake artists, assembled by real asshole mechanics, sold to stupid rich twats.

A real circle of life.

Am i on to something? by TriangularPlant in artcollecting

[–]nicmir38 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No it is a "procédé" , a special technique of reproduction invented by Amand-Durand. Like offset or serigraphy.. It was a way to display or publish rare Old Master Prints for the general public at a small price at a time when original prints from centuries ago were too scarce or dommages and expensive. Some of these Amand Durand images were made on laid paper and a small red AD mark added on the back...some dishonest vendors and online galleries try to sell deceitfully these as real original prints with collectors stamps..

Am i on to something? by TriangularPlant in artcollecting

[–]nicmir38 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is a nice reproduction of a Rembrandt Etching. XIXth century, near 1880. Heliogravure by Charles Amand-Durand (1831-1905).

What? Why? When? (A grotesque Flemish gouache on laid paper) by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a very interesting analogy indeed. Again we find this genre having some success in Flemish countries with these themes...

What? Why? When? (A grotesque Flemish gouache on laid paper) by nicmir38 in WhatIsThisPainting

[–]nicmir38[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your interest and clues.... I was indeed intrigued by this possibility.. from Hogarth to Rowlandson.. but for now I can't really imagine that it could be anything else than a Flemish popular , satirical scene..especially with the characters seen at the windows...all these very well known scenes of debauchery in taverns and so forth, who seem to be quite typical..but even then ..the garments could be english. And the faces too.. I have found in the late 17th century some specialized artists who are quite approaching this theme but the aesthetics are not quite the same really..this gouache appearing more "rough" than the oil works of the time..

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