Loomis Dean, Sautatuck Art Colony 1949
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Norma Shearer portrait (c.1917) Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies
untitled by Rowena Waack on Flickr.
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The Irish Girl - Ford Madox Brown (1860) While looking for models for his most famous piece ‘Work’, Ford Madox Brown came across this young girl selling oranges and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to paint such a haunting. beauty. This portrait was to be viewed in conjunction or comparison to The English Boy, who was modelled by FMD’s own son, Oliver.
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Lucian Freud, Girl with a Kitten (1947) Oil on canvas 50.9 x 40.4 cm
Clifford Coffin’s portrait of Lucian Freud in his studio (1947)
Girl with Beret by Lucian Freud this is one of my favourite pieces at Manchester Art Gallery
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Lunia Czeckovska (1919) - Amedeo Modigliani I found out this evening that Modigliani studied under my (less renowned) ancestor Giovanni Fattori: feeling very proud and very smug.
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