Cornelis Kick

Frederick Judd Waugh

Still Life Peonies 26.5 x 37 inches

The American painter, Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940), was best known for his seascapes. He had an impeccable sense of composition.

Hermitage Museum

Works from the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg:
Fantin-Latour
Jean Francois van Dael, details
Van Huysum

Egon Schiele

Field of Flowers

Johan Laurentz Jensen - Danish

detail

Simon Luttichuys

Luttichuys was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

The subdued palette, consisting of interesting greys, browns and whites, and the composition with its central glass, is restful to the eye.

Interesting greys can be made by mixing colours which are opposite on the colour wheel. If the colours are incompletely mixed, with suggestions of the constituent pigments visible, then the greys become vibrant and alive. A subdued palette does not have to be a dead one. The absence of bright colours in this case allows the painting to showcase the subtle play of light on various objects: reflective metal, transparent glass, absorptive cloth.

Olga Sugorova

Stanislav Zhukovsky

Interior with Samovar, 1914, 41 x 39.5 inches.


The Easter Table.




Stanislav Zhukovsky (1875-1944) was a Polish/Russian impressionist painter.

Mogra

This is a photograph, not a painting. Called mogra in India, this type of jasmine is worn by South Indian women, tied around the hair bun. Riding on a bus in a Chennai (Madras) one is enveloped in the heady fragrance of these blooms worn by the female passengers. The garlands are tied deftly with some kind of long grass twine, and sold from baskets on street corners. Hopefully this trade will not die out as India modernises and loses many of its customs.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Petunias, 1925