“That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter Graham Sutherland (actor Stephen Dillane) in the first season of “The Crown,” Netflix’s six-series dramatization about the English monarchy. Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his 80th birthday, as it is unveiled in London’s Westminster Hall in November 1954. Churchill goes on to describe his appearance in the painting as “a broken,...
Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interviewThe granddaughter of Augustus John, Britain’s most famous and successful artist of the early 20th century, has delivered a damning critique of his later works. Rebecca John, the leading authority on the artist, says in her first interview for two decades that “most should have been burned. My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgment, and took every...
Mystery surrounds the unfinished Portrait of Fraulein Lieser, which could fetch more than €50m.
The annual fine arts and activities celebration recognized senior artists and gave a nod to legendary artist Charles Schulz.
He disliked the Graham Sutherland painting so much that it ended up being set on fire, as immortalized on The Crown . This study remains.
A city centre venue is giving artists and performers the chance to display their work and connect with the community.
Unfinished Portrait of Fräulein Lieser resurfaced in private collection but questions remain about its journey and its subjectA painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was considered lost for 100 years has sold for €30m (£26m) at an auction in Vienna.Entitled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, the unfinished picture was painted in the spring of 1917, when Klimt was one of the most celebrated portraitists in Europe, and a year before his death. Continue reading
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An excerpt from ‘Unmasked: Reflections in Brush and Ink’, by Nandita Chaudhuri.
Organizers say this is an attempt to raise citizen awareness and help educate the York community about the connection between storm drains and local creeks.
Organizers say this is an attempt to raise citizen awareness and help educate the York community about the connection between storm drains and local creeks.
BATON ROUGE - Local artist Raymond Marmillion III died from a heart attack on Saturday.The artist, whose work signed RMIII can be found around Baton Rouge and New Orleans, was 42 years old.His parents, Gwen and Raymond Marmillion Jr., are proud of their son, recalling his work painted on the side of restaurants, hung inside galleries, homes and gifted to many."As I'm standing there looking at his work people were passing by honking their horn and waiving because it's an inspiration of hope,"...