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Book Review
Souvenirs de jeunesse: Entrer aux Beaux-Arts de Paris 1780–1980
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 298–9
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Reviewer:
Curtis, Penelope (Curtis, Penelope)
Subjects
art literature:
Databases / Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
subjects:
French art / Students / Art schools
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Souvenirs de jeunesse: Entrer aux Beaux-Arts de Paris 1780–1980 Edited by Alice Thomine-Berrada. 364 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Éditions Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2024), €39. ISBN 978–2–84056–874–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. La Légende de St Ronan (Legend of St Ronan), by Odette Marie Pauvert. 1925. Oil on canvas, 201 by 151 cm. (Beaux-Arts de Paris).
Exhibition Review
VKhUTEMAS 100: School of Avant-garde
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 961-963
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Reviewer:
Akinsha, Konstantin (Akinsha, Konstantin)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Moscow City Museum, Moscow, Russia
subjects:
VKhUTEMAS, Moscow, Russia / VKhUTEIN, Moscow, Russia / Soviet art / Russian art / Russian architecture / Design / Art schools / Art education / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
VKhUTEMAS 100: School of Avant-garde Edited by Ksenia Guseva and Aleksandra Selivanova. 326 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Museum of Moscow and ABC Design, Moscow, 2021), $159. ISBN 978–5–4330–0163–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Still life for the painting class, by Aleksandr Rodchenko. 1924. Photograph. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
34. Exhibition on the subject ‘Colour’ in VKhUTEMAS. Photograph, 1926. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
35. Composition of geometrical shapes sequentially drawn in one, two, three, four, five mutually crossed shapes, by Anastasia Akhtyrko. 1921. Pencil on paper. (Private collection).
Article
El Lissitzky as a furniture designer, 1925–30
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 144-151
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Author:
Tucker, Bennett (Tucker, Bennett)
Subjects
artists:
Lissitzky, El / Rietveld, Gerrit Thomas / Breuer, Marcel
dates:
1920-1929
places:
Soviet Union
subjects:
Russian architecture / Russian art / Furniture / Designers / Art schools / Modernism / VKhUTEMAS workshops / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Proun 4 B, by El Lissitzky. 1919–20. Oil on canvas, 70 by 55.5 cm. (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; Scala).
Attributed works:
10. Interior of the Double House (Houses 14 and 15) for the Weißenhof exhibition, Stuttgart 1927, by Le Corbusier. (From W. Gräff, ed.: Innenräume: Räume und Inneneinrichtungsgegenstände aus der Werkbundausstellung ‘Die Wohnung’ insbesondere aus den Bauten der städtischen Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1928).
Attributed works:
11. Interior for F-Type Dwelling, by El Lissitzky. 1928. (Photograph © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Attributed works:
12. Chair, by El Lissitzky. 1930. (From S. Küppers-Lissitzky: El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Text, London 1968).
Attributed works:
13. Seats for the International Fur Trade Exhibition, by El Lissitzky. 1930. (From S. Küppers-Lissitzky: El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Text, London 1968).
Attributed works:
14. Model of an apartment in a commune for the Soviet Pavilion for the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden, by El Lissitzky. 1930. (From S. Küppers-Lissitzky: El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Text, London 1968).
Attributed works:
15. Installation of seating in accordance with El Lissitzky’s project for international exhibitions. 1930. (Photograph © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Attributed works:
2. Mart Stam, Gerrit Rietveld and El Lissitzky. (From S. Küppers- Lissitzky: El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Text, London 1968).
Attributed works:
3. The Rietveld Schröder House, Utrecht, showing the upstairs seating area from the girls’ room. (From M. Küper and I. van Zijl: Gerrit Th. Rietveld: 1888–1964: het volledige werk, Utrecht 1992; Photograph © Centraal Museum, Utrecht).
Attributed works:
4. Red blue chair, by Gerrit Rietveld. c.1918. Painted wood, 86.7 by 66 by 83.8 cm. (The Museum of Modern Art, New York; © The Museum of Modern Art; Scala).
Attributed works:
5 and 6. Furniture for the Club of Building Workers, by M. Arutchian. 1929. Wood. (Catherine Cooke Archive, University Library, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
7. VKhUTEMAS furniture projects in wood, by A. Damskii. Late 1920s. (From Salim O. Khan-Magomedov: VHUTEMAS: Moscou, 1920–1930, Paris 1990).
Attributed works:
8. Die Wohnung, Werkbundausstellung Stuttgart (The Apartment, Werkbund Exhibition, Stuttgart), by Willi Baumeister. 1927. Poster, 115 by 82 cm. (Scala).
Attributed works:
9. Stroitelstvo Moskvy 10 (1929). Front cover. Published by The Moscow Council. (British Library, London).
Exhibition Review
Mika Rottenberg. Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1063-1065
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Reviewer:
Caiger-Smith, Martin (Caiger-Smith, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Rottenberg, Mika, b. 1976 / Craig-Martin, Michael / Barney, Matthew / Assemble (art collective)
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Sculpture / Videos / Installations (visual works)
museums and institutions:
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain / Goldsmiths' College School of Art, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Art schools / Art galleries / Universities / University museums / Young British Artists / Competitions / Commissions / Globalism / Capitalism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Cosmic Generator, by Mika Rottenberg. 2017. Video and sculptural installation, dimensions variable. (© Mika Rottenberg; courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris; exh. Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London).
Attributed works:
31. Installation view of Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 8th September–4th November 2018. (Photograph Andy Keate; courtesy the artist).
Attributed works:
32. Installation view of Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 8th September–4th November 2018. (Photograph Andy Keate; courtesy the artist).
Attributed works:
33. Project space, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London. 2018. (Photograph courtesy Assemble).
Article
From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Author:
Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive
artists:
Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa
artists:
Donatello / Bate, Francis
dates:
1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts, London
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 678-681
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Reviewer:
Yarker, Jonathan (Yarker, Jonathan)
Subjects
art literature:
Berger, John / Solkin, David H., London, Great Britain
artists:
Rowlandson, Thomas / Cope, Charles West / Kauffmann, Angelica / Wilkie, David / Bigg, William Redmore / Morland, George / Mulready, William, I, 1786-1863 / Wilton, Joseph / Turner, Joseph Mallord William / Constable, John / Sims, Charles / Munnings, Alfred James / Lewis, Wyndham / Piper, Myfanwy / Churchill, Winston / Annigoni, Pietro / Blake, Peter / Bowling, Frank / Nicholson, Ben / Hitchens, Ivon / Chipperfield, David / Barry, James, 1741-1806 / Gibson, John / Reynolds, Joshua / Gainsborough, Thomas / Lawrence, Thomas / Michelangelo / Leonardo da Vinci / Nevay, Giacomo / Blake, William
artists:
Blow, Sandra
buildings:
Burlington House, London, Great Britain / Somerset House, London, Great Britain
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Drawings / Watercolours / Frames / Architecture
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
British painting / British architecture / Art schools / Academies / Study and teaching / Portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Genre paintings / Satire / Abstract art / Pre-Raphaelite / Collecting / Casts (sculpture) / Copies / Copying / Internet and art history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. The exhibition at the Royal Academy in Pall Mall in 1771, by Richard Earlom after Michel Vincent Brandoin. 1772. Mezzotint, 47.2 by 56.6 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
19. Clio and the children, by Charles Sims. 1913–15. Canvas, 114.3 by 182.9 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
20. Male nude, after a figure from Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, by James Nevay. 1772. Pencil and white chalk on paper, 51.5 by 39.2 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
21. Green and red variations, by Sandra Blow. 1978. Oil and collage on canvas, 137.2 by 121.9 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Article
Richard Hamilton at the Slade School of Fine Art (1948-51) and his ‘abstract’ paintings of the early 1950s
09/2015 | 1350 | 157
Pages: 623-630
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Author:
Casini, Giovanni (Casini, Giovanni)
Subjects
artists:
Hamilton, Richard
artists:
Coldstream, William Menzies
dates:
1940-1959
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Biographies / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Art education / Abstract art
subjects:
Art theory / Art schools
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Particular system, by Richard Hamilton. 1951 (Private collection, on long loan to Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid)
Attributed works:
34. Respective, by Richard Hamilton. 1951 (Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
Attributed works:
35. d'Orientation, by Richard Hamilton. 1952 (Private collection)
Attributed works:
36. Refraction, by Richard Hamilton. 1952 (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
37. Chromatic spiral, by Richard Hamilton. 1950 (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
38. Seated nude, by William Coldstream. 1952-53 (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
39. The Earl Jowitt, by William Coldstream. 1945-51 (Private collection)
Attributed works:
40. Elements from Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook reproduced in Siegfried Giedion's Mechanisation Takes Command, 1948
Attributed works:
41. Self-portrait, by Richard Hamilton. 1951 (Tate, London)
Attributed works:
42. Portrait of an equilibrist, by Paul Klee. 1927 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Attributed works:
43. Mask of fear, by Paul Klee. 1932 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Article
Robert Anning Bell in Liverpool, 1895–99: the Arts and Crafts movement and the creation of a civic culture
05/2012 | 1310 | 154
Pages: 345-350
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Author:
Eden, Alice (Eden, Alice)
Subjects
artists:
Bell, Robert Anning
dates:
1890-1899
places:
Liverpool
print:
Bell, Robert Anning
subjects:
Arts and Crafts movement / British painting / Biographies / British sculpture / Art schools / British architecture / Book illustrations / Study and teaching
Illustrations
Attributed works:
53. Poster for the Liverpool University School of Architecture and Applied art, by Robert Anning Bell. Published in The Sphinx (20th Dec­ember 1894), p.60. Lithograph, in three sections, printed in black, 77 by 81.5; 104.5 by 81.5; 99 by 81.5 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
Attributed works:
54. Music by the water, by Robert Anning Bell. 1900. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 38.7 by 54.0 cm. (Tate, London).
Attributed works:
55. The listeners, by Robert Anning Bell. 1906. Watercolour on paper, 49.5 by 74.9 cm. (Tate, London).
Attributed works:
56. King and Queen of Hearts frieze, by Robert Anning Bell, Fanny Lister and Enid Jackson. c.1896. Oil with gilt gesso on canvas, on board in three sections, 71 by 240; 68.5 by 148; 70 by 148 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
Attributed works:
58. Nebuchadnezzar window, designed by Robert Anning Bell. Installed 1911. Stained glass. (Mostyn School Chapel, Merseyside; photograph courtesy of Suzi Grenfell).
Attributed works:
59. The echo, by Robert Anning Bell. 1915. Watercolour on paper, 56 by 77 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool).
Attributed works:
60. Spring revel, by Robert Anning Bell. 1916. Canvas, 77 by 184 cm. (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight).
Western art unattributed:
52. Robert Anning Bell, by an unknown photographer. 1900–10. Bromide print, 70 by 46 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Western art unattributed:
57. A photograph from the performance of The Queen of Hearts which Bell produced with his students in 1895 for ‘The Athletic Fund Entertainment’, reproduced in The Sphinx (February 1895). (Courtesy of the University of Liverpool Library, Special Collections).
Article
Seurat and the ‘cours de M.Yvon’
03/2011 | 1296 | 153
Pages: 174-180
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Author:
Ireson, Nancy (Ireson, Nancy)
Subjects
artists:
Seurat, Georges
artists:
Lehmann, Henri / Yvon, Adolphe
dates:
1870-1879 / 1880-1889
museums and institutions:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
print:
Seurat, Georges
subjects:
Drawings / Life drawings / French / Studios (organisations) / Art schools / Art education / Biographies
Illustrations
Attributed works:
58. Drawing of a figure from the life, by Georges Seurat. c.1877. Pencil on paper, 63 by 48 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
59. Drawing of a figure from the life, by Jules Giradet. 1874. Graphite and stumping on paper with charcoal highlights, 61.7 by 47.5 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
60. The model ‘Gélon’, photographed by Edouard Cuyer. 1890. Photograph, 17.5 by 12.5 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
61. Drawing of a figure from the life, by G. Charpentier. 1877. Conté and stumping on paper, 62 by 47.7 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
62. Drawing of a figure from the life, by Georges Seurat. c.1877. Graphite on paper, 33 by 47.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
63. Antique statue, satyr with goat, by Georges Seurat. 1877–79. Charcoal on paper, 63.5 by 48.3 cm. (Dian Woodner collection).
Attributed works:
64. Drawing from the cast, by Félix-Jules Lacaille. 1877. Black chalk on paper, 62.5 by 48.4 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
65. Drawing from the cast, by Laurent Gsell. 1879. Black chalk on paper, 62 by 47.3 cm. (Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris).
Attributed works:
66. Seated figure, by Georges Seurat. c.1881. Conté crayon on paper, 17.5 by 11 cm. From sale cat., Sotheby’s, Paris, Impressionist and Modern Sale, 28th May 2009, lot 9.
Attributed works:
67. The orange seller, by Georges Seurat. 1881. Conté crayon and gouache on paper, 31 by 24 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
68. Female nude, by Georges Seurat. 1881–82. Graphite and crayon on paper, 63.2 by 48.2 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
71. Soldier, seen from behind, by Adolphe Yvon. c.1859. Pencil on paper (sketchbook sheet), 10.3 by 18.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
57. Students of Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Georges Seurat sixth from the left. c.1878. Photograph. (Formerly Yolande Osbert collection).
Western art unattributed:
69. Placement of the figure, by means of summary lines. Plate from A. Yvon: Méthode de dessin à l’usage des écoles et des lycées, Paris 1867, n.p. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Western art unattributed:
70. Placement and blocking out of a head viewed in profile. Plate from A. Yvon: Méthode de dessin à l’usage des écoles et des lycées, Paris 1867, n.p. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
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