VERVE 27

02/16/2024

Gertrude Stein in her Montparnasse apartment . rue de Fleurus (Paris 6).
This is the apartment where Hemingway, during his years in Paris, used to visit her after walking through the Luxembourg garden (cf “A moveable feast”).

On the wall, her portrait by Picasso.
Anecdote : when G Stein saw this painting for the first time she protested that it didn't look like her, he calmly replied, “It will.”
Me : How elegant this Picasso …!😅

In 1938 Gertrude Stei moved to Saint Germain des Prés (Paris 6)

Gertrude Stein (February 1874 – 1946) was an American novelist and art collector. She lived in Paris from 1903 until her death in 1946
She hosted a salon in Montparnasse, where writers and artists used to meet (Picasso, Matisse, Fitzgerald, Hemingway
In 1938 she moved to Saint Germain des Prés (Paris 6)
She (and her brother too) supported many writers and painters She bought and collected paintings, some of them before the artists were known (such as a painting by Picasso in 1905)

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published a book which was a kind of memoir of her Paris years (The autobiography of Alice B Tokias )
G Stein is buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery

02/08/2024

Ingo Maurer est un designer et entrepreneur allemand spécialisé dans l'éclairage contemporain : https://www.ingo-maurer.com/fr

02/07/2024

Van Gogh and Gauguin (around Dec 1887) at the « Theatre libre » 96 rue Blanche in Montmartre, Paris
(Van Gogh was living then in Montmartre with his brother Théo)
This photo was discovered in 2015. This is the first time that these two artists appear on the same photo.
To answer the question (« who are the other people ? ») : from the left side to the right side : Arnold Koning, Emile Bernard, Vincent van Gogh, André Antoine (founder of the « Theatre libre where the photo was taken, actor, film and theatre director), Félix Jobbé-Duval, Paul Gauguin.
Photo by Serge Plantureux

Nevertheless the view/appreciation over this photo stay controversial especially among the experts at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam The photo went up for auction in Brussels but the price set at 120 thousand euros

(And thank you to the few of you… only a few who told me in the comment that what I wrote about this photo was wrong …! )

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01/18/2024

From the 1950s until a few years before she died, in 2009, destitute at the age of 83, Vivian Maier took at least 150,000 pictures, mostly in Chicago, and showed them to nobody. Now she has earned her place alongside Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Lisette Model, Garry Winogrand, and other giants of the American street. See her vivid photos, which might have languished in obscurity if not for a chance acquisition: http://nyer.cm/AQDZmxD

12/27/2023

Pablo Picasso & Frida Kahlo

12/27/2023

Carte de Noël par Salvador Dali

12/24/2023

“Your head is a living forest full of song birds”
ee cummings

Beth Conklin - Song Birds.

12/12/2023

L'atelier de Joan Miró

Joan Miró, né à Barcelone le 20 avril 1893 et mort à Palma de Majorque le 25 décembre 1983, est un peintre, sculpteur, graveur et céramiste catalan. Se définissant avant tout comme « Catalan international », il est l'un des principaux représentants du mouvement surréaliste.

Créateur d’un monde onirique très personnel et libre, sa peinture est toutefois à la limite de l’abstraction lyrique. Sa palette aux couleurs vives est dominée par le bleu. Artiste prolifique, Miró a réalisé pas moins de 2 000 peintures, 5 000 dessins et collages, 500 sculptures et 400 céramiques ! Le peintre est aussi connu pour avoir répondu à de grandes commandes publiques.

12/07/2023

Marc Chagall and his model in the studio, 1955

12/06/2023

Lampes en papier maché par Sophie Mouton Perrat et Frederic Guibrunet de Papier à êtres

Chez Papier à Êtres, Sophie Mouton-Perrat et Frédéric Guibrunet travaillent le papier depuis plus de dix ans, chacun à sa manière. Depuis le début de l'année 2008, ils unissent leurs savoir-faire dans des créations communes, sculptures lumineuses, diaphanes et légères.

A l'origine, Papier à êtres® est une marque déposée par Sophie en 2002. A l'époque, après des études d'arts appliqués, elle travaille déjà le papier, pliage ou papier mâché : elle invente des personnages, des animaux poétiques et ludiques toujours colorés, s'inspirant de contes, de films, du burlesque et du quotidien.

Frédéric, quant à lui, réalise un parcours de chimiste avant de se passionner pour la fabrication du papier. Après de multiples voyages à travers le monde afin de trouver la meilleure technique, il s'installe au Canada, se décide à créer autour de cette matière et se lance dans des collections de luminaires qu'il ne travaille qu'en blanc, pour la mettre en valeur.

11/27/2023

ARTISTS TOGETHER
Pablo Picasso with Marc Chagall
Vallauris, 1948

11/17/2023

It’s the birthday of artist Georgia O’Keeffe, born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (1887). She had her first exhibition in 1916, at photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery, without her knowledge. She had sent some of her charcoal drawings to a friend, who in turn showed them to Stieglitz, who hung them in his gallery. Within two years, he had convinced her to move to New York from Texas, where she’d been living and teaching. He encouraged her to devote herself to painting, promising to support her for a year if she did so, and he promoted her work enthusiastically, mounting one-woman shows at least once a year. By 1918, they were in love, and in 1924, they were married. She painted lush flowers, dramatic cityscapes, and bleached bones; he photographed her, more than 500 times over the years, his intimate portraits of her graceful, angular face telling a pictorial love story. “He photographed me until I was crazy,” she later said.

Stieglitz and O’Keeffe wrote each other letters, a great many letters, sometimes three or four a day: 25,000 pages passed between them from 1915 to 1946. “I’m getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me,” O’Keeffe wrote in 1916. “Having told you so much of me — more than anyone else I know — could anything else follow but that I should want you …” He wrote to her in 1917, “How I wanted to photograph you — the hands — the mouth — & eyes — & the enveloped in black body — the touch of white — & the throat — but I didn’t want to break into your time …” The first volume of their correspondence, titled My Faraway One and covering the years from 1915 to 1933, was published in 2011.

O’Keeffe’s other great love was the landscape around Taos, New Mexico. She took her first trip there in 1929, and returned every summer to paint. After Stieglitz’s death in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently. She gave up painting in oils when her eyesight failed in the mid-1970s, but continued to work in pencil and watercolor for several more years. In 1982, she began sculpting with clay, which she continued until two years before her death in 1986, at the age of 98.

(Photo by John Leongard)

11/17/2023

11/05/2023

A Homage To Pink

11/05/2023

11/05/2023

Fascinating business & process! Im lucky to have a few of their beautiful pieces ❤️

11/03/2023

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11/02/2023

OverHertz Bulgaria

11/01/2023

10/31/2023

After an entire weekend of carving this 2,246-lb. pumpkin, a botanical beast at last emerged—tentacles and all! 🎃✨

This year’s finale was a marathon of crafting by Adam Bierton and Lenny Calvin as they brought this monster to life to the delight of thousands of costumed kids and families. And while this season’s Pumpkin HQ festivities are behind us, fall is only just getting started as the colors of the foliage reach peak and paint the Garden in bright reds, oranges, and yellows.

With kicking off this Saturday, Japanese chrysanthemums on view for Kiku, and fall beauty everywhere you look, make a trip to NYBG to celebrate the season at its finest. https://brnw.ch/21wDZSh

10/18/2023

And in Paris
“In art we trust” 🩷

10/06/2023

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature … the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."
Rachel Carson

Alla Tsank - Queen of Birds.

09/20/2023

Matisse en su casa en Niza.
En 1941 estaba pintando recuperación a la cama.
" He decidido rescatar las tormentas y las preocupaciones para expresar sólo la belleza
del mundo es la alegría de pintar."
Matisse

08/04/2023

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Congratulations on the smashing success Barbie!! But I couldn’t help but notice one was missing from the movie… 💖✨🩷 Barbie the Movie