Do you think this artist owned a cat and/or is a cat lover?
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| Who painted this? #19 |
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- Title of the artwork: Vase of Roses
- Name of the artist who created this artwork: Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
- Date it was created: 1875
- Media used: oil on canvas,
- Where it lives now: painting in private collection: Julian and Josie Robertson
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| Vase des roses (1875) Henri Fantin-Latour |
It was exhibited in an exhibition of the works contained in the bequest at the Auckland Gallery in 2011.
In May 2009 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki announced a promised gift of 15 works of art through its Foundation, including paintings by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin and Mondrian - the largest gift ever made to an art museum in Australasia.Note: Julian Robertson is one of the original and a legendary Hedge Fund Manager with a net worth of $2.8 billion. He and his wife are also generous philanthropists and have extensive connections with New Zealand where they live for part of every year - hence the bequest to the Auckland Gallery.
The gift, from New York art collectors and philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson, represents some of the major European artists of the modern era. Its cultural value places it among the most generous philanthropic acts in New Zealand history.
You can find examples of Fantin-Latour's paintings in an awful lot of galleries.
- The Bowes Museum in County Durham had an exhibition about him in 2011 - Painting Flowers: Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists
- These are all the images of artwork by Henri Fantin-Latour which are available on Wikipaintings
Rather more people got this answer correct this week!
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- Mark - who highlighted this blog post What I'd like to steal from the Auckland Art gallery
There's a little Henri Fantin-Latour still-life that's so modest and satisfyingly painted I'd love to wake up to it each day.Others also got the artist or some but not all of the information.
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It's painted by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
ReplyDeleteI found this by searching cats ink Japanese.... easy! :)
Trying again, this time with all the information I could find!
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TITLE Drawings of Fifty-three Lovingly Raised Animals (Myô kaikô gojûsanbiki)
YEAR 1848
Block Print
I couldn't find where it is now though.
I searched for famous paintings of cats in various poses and found a similar painting of four cats which led me to Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
ReplyDeleteCats suggested as the fifty three stations of the Tokaido.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
1843-1845 (that's a guess)
Ukiyo-e Woodblock Printing
Couldn't find were it lives, but there are some works in the British Museum so it could be there.There was also a Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2009 showing works from Arthur R Miller collection but I don't know if this was one of them.
Yes, he was a cat lover! (Or so says Wikipedia)
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by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
1843-45
Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Lives in the British Museum
Could not find the dimensions. It was easy to find the correct image,(searched for Japanese cat painting) much more difficult to find the rest of the info.
And thanks so much for setting these quizzes, Katherine. It's a wonderful way to see art that I would otherwise not get to see!
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ReplyDeleteLovely depiction of cats... of course he must have loved them! He caught all of their expressions! Here are my answers-
Title of artwork: Drawings of Fifty-three Lovingly Raised Animals (Myô kaikô gojûsanbiki)
Name of the artist of created this artwork: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Date it was created: c.1848
Media used: woodblock print
Publisher: Iba-ya Sensaburô
How I knew: I recognised it as a ukiyo-e print as I had read up about them after visiting the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam (he was an avid collector). I googled ukiyo-e prints of cats, and it came up fairly quickly! Once I had the image, it was fairly easy to find the information.
Cheers, Shevaun
Artist Name-Utagawa Kuniyoshi
ReplyDeleteMedium-Waterbased Inks on (Silk ?) Oban tate-e triptych
Time-Edo period, 1848
Title-Cats Suggested by the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.
The collection of Kuniyoshi Prints from B.W. Robinson was almost all sold at christies in 2007,the triptych of Cats was sold for £38,900,which is the highest price paid for this artists work so far.Am not sure where this print is currently located, or how many are there are.
I used Google and searched Japanese Cat prints,at one point I had 15 Tabs opened up on this artist,trying to find answers.
I forgot to add that Kuniyoshi was not only a cat lover, but he also owned more than 10 cats .
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ReplyDeleteCats suggested as the 53 stations of 2the Tokaido
Drawings of 53 lovingly raised animals
by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川 国芳)
He was a cat lover who had many cats around him.I think you would have to be to come up with all those poses.
Wood block print c 1848
published by Iba-ya Sensaburo
Oban tryptich
Where it is now Collection of Basil W Robinson, London.
I searched for it by googling various combos of: cats, Chinese characters painting illustration Japanese etc no success till I tried cats poses Japanese painting. I found a similar painting with fewer cats then found it doing a search using that Artist's name.