Staying with Charles Despiau: Madame Stone, 1926-27. Bronze portrait bust capturing the refined features and inner calm that defined Despiau’s intimate classicism.
Bequest of Chester Dale to @metmuseum.org
#sculpture #sculptor #CharlesDespiau #FrenchModernism
A Gothicising Modernist woodcut by Moissey Kogan in black and white depicting two dancers in long flowing costumes
A new blogpost - Themes and Intimations: Moissey Kogan’s prints for the ‘Die Schaffenden’ portfolios moisseykogancr.org/themes-and-i...
“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
—Marcel Proust
How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris - fascinating story www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...
various; image size: 27.1 x 23.7 cm. Unsigned and unnumbered copies (probably posthumous) do exist, so please do your due diligence and know what you are buying. Do not hesitate to ask us at the catalogue raisonné if you have any doubts #MoisseyKogan
One of a series of linocuts on Japan by #MoisseyKogan from the 1930s. The original edition numbers 20 impressions, each signed Moissey Kogan Paris to the lower right of the image and numbered to the lower left. Dimensions - sheet size: 1/2
Bellingcat volunteers using AI joined forces with a German historian to solve an enduring mystery of the Holocaust - who was the Nazi killer from the picture once known as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa, a chilling image kept as a 'trophy' from the massacres in Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“Unhappy with the BBC's questions, Mr Cohen threatened to "make [BBC journalists] disappear" and claimed he could hack their communications.” 🥸
#MoisseyKogan #MoissiKogan #MoissejKogan #ÉcoledeParis #SchoolofParis #modernistsculpture #torso #146today #happybirthday
Today is #MoisseyKogan’s 146th birthday and here to mark the occasion is a variant cast of his Torso, artificial stone (pierre artificielle, Kunststein), c. 32.7 cm, 1927-28. This image comes from his friend Jan Engelman’s publication also named ‘Torso’ for the journal De Gemeenschap 1931.
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Just a guess, though based on work I did on Nierendorf and Klee. Worth checking out either way. Thanks
Ownership
Brought by Nierendorf who took ownship of a large group of works by Klee after his death. Former partner of Neumann. Just a thought
Gorgeous with a powerful personality shining through
Romanesque carving on the font at Toller Fratrum church, Dorset
Also temple portals all round. A magical place
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13 Orte, an denen Walter Benjamin im Pariser Exil lebte
Eine interaktive Karte. #Paris #Exil
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Once we've established, as we have repeatedly, that "deport" is the wrong word, I'd support "rendition," which fully carries the meaning of what's going on and sounds, at least to me, properly odiously fascistic.
YM, as always, MV.
#copyediting
Slightly more legible photo : Sonia Yassa / Ville de Paris
Photos by Didier Rykner, freresmartel.blogspot.com
The Fontaine Debussy, Paris, featuring major sculptural works by the Frères Martel, erected 1932, is under threat and poorly maintained. Article by Didier Rykner: freresmartel.blogspot.com/2000/04/a-pa...
"This is our career & our triumph. The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker & poor fish-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph." Bartolomeo Vanzetti's final words before he & Nicola Sacco were put to death, from print by Ben Shahn www.moma.org/collection/w...
So wonderful to receive this gift in the mail today: Kerry Wallach’s book, Traces of a Jewish Artist. The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit #rahelszalit
There is a petition calling for the Académie de la Grande Chaumière to be saved. Here is the link should you wish to sign: www.change.org/p/sauvons-l-...
Située non loin de Montparnasse, l’Académie de la Grande Chaumière est une école historique de modèle vivant, qui a accueilli Louise Bourgeois ou Amedeo Modigliani. Menacée d’être expulsée depuis plusieurs années, elle se voit contrainte de quitter les lieux www.pariszigzag.fr/paris-au-quo...
Takanori Oguiss's views of the backstreets of Montmartre form the greatest part of his work . A follower of Maurice Utrillo, he trained in Tokyo and moved to Paris in 1927 to join his friend Tsuguharu Foujita. This work dates from around 1930.
L’œuvre de Picasso est une gouache sur papier, très fragile. Le visage de cet enfant, sorti de l’imaginaire du peintre, pourrait représenter l’un des deux enfants espagnols assassinés dans l’église d'Oradour-sur-Glane #caravanedelapaix #picasso
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Aurèle Barraud painted his self‑portrait many times during his lifetime as a way of defining himself; at times relentless, self absorbed to something approaching satisfaction, this work from 1927 was completed when he was aged 24 and on the eve of an exhibition in Paris.
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Dass die Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen gerade zu implodieren drohen, liegt nicht nur an Provenienzforschung und Restitutionsverweigerung. Meine Investigativrecherche zu gefährdeten Besucher*innen und Kunstwerken. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/vorwuerfe-ge...