01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #84

Tamineh Monzavi

Brides of Mokhber al-Dowleh, 2012

Archival digital pigment print.

W.25 in; H.17.25 in; W.63.5 cm;H. 43.82 cm;

Private collection

 "The brides of Mokhber al-Dowleh”, is named after an old Teheran district

Tahmineh Monzavi is an Iranian photographer. Her works have been exhibited in museums in several countries, and published by international art magazines and books. She received the Sheed Award in 2011.

Monzavi received a bachelor's degree in photography from Azad Art & Architecture University of Tehran. In 2005, she began her professional career as a documentary photographer, with a focus on social issues. In 2009, she made a long documentary film about a group of addicted women who live in a shelter in south of Tehran. 

In 2011 she received the prestigious Sheed Award, an independent, non-profit, private photography award. This award is given to a social documentary photographer each year, and is the only Iranian photography competition to have internationally qualified members.

Her photographs have also been exhibited in several museums around the world, such as the Modern Art Museum of the City of Paris, and the Literature museum of Georgia. This series has been shown in Silkroad art Gallery in Tehran, as well as in Paris, Rome, Vienna, Boston and South Korea. She has also done a project on Transsexualism, which addresses how a minority within traditional Iranian society yearns for and attempts to find wider social acceptance and recognition. Monzavi’s vision was changed after a month of being imprisoned; she began looking at Iranian society differently. After a year of inactivity, she began to work on a project called "All about me; nicknamed Queen maker" in which she covers deep feelings of womanhood and womanly dreams. More on Tahmineh Monzavi

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY with Footnotes. #84

Jules Frédéric Ballavoine, (1855 - 1901)

Portrait of Gypsy 

Oil on canvas

40 x 32.5 cm

Private collection

The Gypsy, or Romani, colloquially known as Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally itinerant, living mostly in Europe and the Americas. The Romani originate from the northern Indian subcontinent,from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India. More on the Gypsy

Julles Frederick Ballavoine, American, 1855 - 1901, was born in Paris in 1855 and died in 1901. He is considered a still-life, genre and landscape painter from the French school. He received his formal art training at the L'Ecole de Beaux-Art.

Ballavoine found incredible success as a painter of small Paris street scenes, which have been compared to those of Jean Beraud (1849-1910) and small light filled still-lifes.

Ballavoine debuted at the Salon of 1877 with "le bouquet campagne." At the Salon of 1882 with "Surprise", "Le Marche aux fleurs" and "La Petite Bohemienne" and at the Salons of 1883 and 1886 with "Parmi les rochers" and "Sur la terrasse." At the 1886 Paris Salon, Ballavoine and was awarded a metal for "La seance interrompue." He also exhibited at the Salon of 1890 and 1897. He continued exhibiting his still-lifes, portraits, Paris street scenes and historical genre paintings. All of his exhibitions received critical acclaim, which helped him become a very successful painter. His works can be found in private and public collections in both the United States and Europe. 

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton

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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Marta Marzotto, with Footnotes. #83

Renato Guttuso, (1912 - 1987)

Marta Marzotto

Mixed technique on cardboard, c. 1970

51x37

Private collection

Marta Marzotto , born Marta Vacondio ( Albinea , 24 February 1931 - Milan , 29 July 2016 ), was a model , stylist and Italian socialite, and also an actress. Her mother was a signalwoman on a toll road and worked in the textile industry. Her father was a railway worker. As a girl Marta worked in the region’s rice fields. Determined to seek a better future, she learned the seamstress’s craft in the city of Pavia, south of Milan, and became a model.

It was beside a catwalk in Venice that she met Count Marzotto. They married in 1954 and had five children.

From the late sixties she was the dominant female figure in the painting and private life of Renato Guttuso. The latter, after having met her in the living room of the Marchi in Milan , represented her in many works, including the above work. The relationship between the two suddenly ceased after about twenty years. In 1976 he met Lucio Magri : she also had an important relationship with him, which lasted ten years

Renato Guttuso, (1912 - 1987)

Marta, c. 1987

27-colour materic serigraph on canvas

Private collection

This Painting was commissioned by Marta Marzotto, ‘Guttuso’s lover’, in 150 copies to give to friends. The signature HC demonstrate that these were not intended for sale. The print run was made in 1987, the signature is on the plate; title: ‘Marta’. 

She was also an actress, known for Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986), Il Quizzone (1994) and Quelli che... il calcio (1993).

Marta Marzotto, a fashion and jewelry designer, former model, countess and hostess to the famous, died on July 29, 2016 in Milan, at 85. More on Marta Marzotto

Renato Guttuso (26 December 1912 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter. His best-known works include Flight from Etna (1938–39), Crucifixion (1941) and La Vucciria (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre and did illustrations for books. Those for Elizabeth David’s Italian Food (1954), introduced him to many in the English-speaking world. A fierce anti-Fascist, "he developed out of Expressionism and the harsh light of his native land to paint landscapes and social commentary."

He was born in Bagheria, near Palermo in Sicily, but from 1937 lived and worked largely in Rome. In his youth he joined the Gruppo universitario fascista, but later he became an anti-fascist and atheist. He joined the banned Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1940 and left Rome to become an active participant in the partisan struggle from 1943. He was also an opponent to the Mafia. In 1972 Guttuso was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. In 1976 he was elected to the Italian Senate as a PCI representative for the Sicilian constituency of Sciacca.

Guttuso became a member of an artistic movement named "Corrente". The movement stood for free and open attitudes, in opposition to the official culture, and chose a strong anti-fascist position in thematic choices through the years of the Spanish Civil War.

Mimise Dotti-Guttuso died on 6 October 1986. Guttuso was soon to follow his wife. He died in Rome of lung cancer at the age of 75 on 18 January 1987. On his deathbed, he allegedly embraced again the Christian faith with which he had been critical. However, there are doubts as to what really happened—in his last months, when he was bedridden, a circle of politicians and priests excluded his oldest friends from his villa. He donated many of his works to his hometown Bagheria, which are now housed in the museum of the Villa Cattolica. More on Renato Guttuso

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #82

Paula Bronstein

Two women taking a selfie

Photograph

Getty Images

Two women were photographed taking a selfie on the Talo Kapo beach in Pattani, Thailand, on June 5th, during Eid al-Fitr festivities. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer, and reflection for Muslims. Artsy Magazine

Paula Bronstein is a photojournalist who entered the profession in 1982 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is now based in Bangkok where she works for Getty Images. Bronstein was a nominated finalist for the Breaking News 2011 Pulitzer Prize.

Bronstein majored in photography at the University of Colorado and at Austria's Salzburg College before specializing in photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology where she graduated in fine arts. She embarked on her career in the United States at the Providence Journal Bulletin before spending 12 years with the New Haven Register and the Hartford Courant. In 1996, she became a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune and then worked for The Register-Guard in Oregon.

Since 1998, Bronstein has been based in Bangkok. In June 2002, she joined Getty Images where she has covered conflicts and news stories throughout the wider Asian region including Kashmir, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Pakistan. More on Paula Bronstein

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #81

Alex Katz

Vivien X 5, 2018

Screenprint in colors on Saunders Waterford 425gsm paper

40 x 96 in (101.6 x 243.84 cm)

Private collection

Alex Katz, (born July 24, 1927, New York, U.S.), American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and later the American landscape through understated but monumental glimpses of the vernacular world.

After returning from a period in the navy in 1946, he enrolled at Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. In 1949 he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he began to work more closely from the landscape. When Katz moved to Manhattan in 1950, Abstract Expressionism was the reigning style. Katz at first rendered the figure in a painterly style, looking to the example of Abstract Expressionism. This manner of painting quickly gave way in the mid-1950s to a flatter, more reductive way of painting. He painted many pictures of his wife, Ada, and many group portraits in this stylized manner against flat, unmodulated coloured backgrounds. His canvases increased in size throughout the 1960s and ’70s, and he produced a number of multipaneled paintings. His great admiration for Henri Matisse and the School of Paris is evident in his work, as is his interest in the American vernacular tradition from the Ashcan School through Pop art.

In addition to painting, Katz experimented early on with collage, and in the 1960s he began to make freestanding cutout figures. He also contributed to the print renaissance of the 1960s by making lithographs and screen prints. His work from the 1990s is dominated by simple views of nature. Katz had his first museum retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1986. He donated much of his art to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, which dedicated an entire wing to his work. More on Alex Katz

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #80

Nico Jungman, (British, 1872-1935)

'Stefi Geyer' 

Watercolour

43.8 x 27.9cm (17 1/4 x 11in).

Private collection

Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation.

Born in 1888 in Budapest, the daughter of a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 5 years old she started playing the violin, with remarkable results for someone who had not practiced at all. She subsequently studied under Jenő Hubay.

Her first marriage was to Vienna lawyer Edwin Jung. He died during the flu epidemic of the First World War. In 1920 she married Swiss composer Walter Schulthess. She moved to Zürich, where she gave concerts, and taught at the Zürich Conservatory from 1934 to 1953. She schooled numerous musicians, among them composer Klaus Huber. More on Stefi Geyer

Nicolaas Wilhelm Jungmann (5 February 1872 – 14 August 1935) was an Anglo-Dutch painter of landscapes and figural subjects, a book-illustrator and decorator.

Jungmann was born in Amsterdam, where he was apprenticed to a church painter, and studied at the Rijksakademie. He came to London around 1893 on a scholarship and became a naturalised British subject, returning to the Netherlands frequently, to paint in Volendam. In 1900, Jungmann married Beatrix Mackay. As a naturalised Briton, he was interned by German forces during the First World War, which led eventually to the dissolution of his marriage. Jungmann made several painting excursions to Brittany and Holland with his friend and fellow-painter Charles W. Bartlett. He illustrated topographical books on Holland (1904) and Norway (1905) for which his wife Beatrix wrote the text, as well as one on Normandy (1905) with a text by Geraldine Edith Mitton. He died, aged 63, in London. More on Nicolaas Wilhelm Jungmann

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