Paul Gauguin | Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889

Paul Gauguin | Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889 | National Gallery in Prague

Gustave Courbet, the perhaps most famous exponent of Realism in French painting, created a number of sensational paintings.

Standing out among them is the work “The Meeting or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet” of 1854, in which Courbet shows himself out wandering, whereby he encounters his patron Alfred Bruyas and his servant. Bruyas supported Courbet and purchased the large-format painting.

When it was exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition of 1855, the audacity of the painter, who presented himself with abundant self-confidence and in a much more favourable light than his patron, was not lost on spectators.

Paul Gauguin | Washerwomen, 1888 | MoMA

Paul Gauguin | Washerwomen, 1888 | MoMA

In October 1888, Gauguin arrived in Arles where his friend Vincent Van Gogh had invited him to come and work.

The two artists had been writing to each other for several months, recording progress on their attempts to produce a non-naturalist landscape.

Paul Gauguin | Young Man with a Flower behind his Ear, 1891

Originally in the collection of the great modern master Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin's striking and evocative portrait of a young man, clad in a pink European blouse and loose cravat, with the native adornment of a small white tiaré blossom tucked over his left ear, is among the first paintings the artist completed after arriving in Tahiti in 1891.

The forthright charm of this painting stems from Gauguin's sensitive characterization of his sitter, a handsome and thoughtful man of whom the artist was clearly quite fond.

Paul Gauguin | Petit Breton à l'Oie, 1889

This important depiction of the Breton countryside is one of the pictures that Gauguin completed in 1889, when he was working in Pont Aven.

Executed with lush colors and linear undulations that presage his pictures of the tropics, this composition presents an exoticized depiction of the region, interpreted through the stylization of Gauguin’s late Symbolist aesthetic.

The romanticizing of the natural world in this picture is indicative of Gauguin's desire to escape the trappings of industrialized France in the months prior to his departure for the South Pacific. | © Sotheby's

Guillaume Seignac | Reunited, 1918-1919

This work was probably executed by Guillaume Seignac (French Academic painter, 1870-1924) in 1918-1919.

It represents two women symbolizing France and Alsace.

Seignac painted another composition in 1914, representing "Belgium, France and England before the German invasion" (Sale, Paris, April 22nd 2009, lot 87).

Peter Demetz, 1969

Born in Bolzano, Italy, awarded🎨 sculptor Peter Demetz lives and works in Ortisei (BZ).

He graduated from the Art Institute of Ortisei, he was an apprentice in the laboratory of master Heinrich Demetz.

In 1993 he obtained the master sculptor diploma.

Since then he has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Ortisei, Milan, Vail/ Colorado, Leipzig, Lichtenstein, Vienna, Florence, Bolzano, Lecce, Istanbul, Palma de Mallorca and Rome.

Bryan Larsen, 1975

Bryan Lamont Larsen Jr. is an American realist painter, born in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Larsen was inspired by the figurative works of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and other nineteenth century European painters.
He was educated at Utah State University and at the Grand Central Academy Summer Intensives.

Larsen's work includes architectural elements and figurative works, with themes emphasizing beauty, innovation, aspiration, and optimism for the future.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian Era luxury.

The Edwardian Period corresponds to the French Belle Époque period. Despite its brief pre-eminence, the period is characterised by its own unique architectural style, fashion, and lifestyle. Art Nouveau had a particularly strong influence. Artists were influenced by the development of the automobile and electricity, and a greater awareness of human rights.

Léon de Smet (Belgian painter, 1881-1966)

Léon de Smet è stato un pittore Belgo🎨 ed il fratello minore del pittore Gustave de Smet (1877-1943), anch'egli famoso pittore.

Nacque a Gand, in Belgio, nel 1881. Ha ricevuto la sua formazione artistica presso la Royal Academy of Art. Insieme a suo fratello, apparteneva ai cosiddetti pittori "Sint-Martens-Latem", un gruppo di artisti che erano attivi nella zona con lo stesso nome.

Lo stile di De Smet è caratterizzato da un tocco impressionista e pointillista.

È rinomato per la sua capacità di costruire una composizione con pennellate rapide, brevi e sottotono, mantenendo sempre l'equilibrio.

John Singer Sargent | Orestes Pursued by the Furies, 1921

'Orestes Pursued by the Furies' was created in 1921 by John Singer Sargent (American painter, 1856-1925) in Neoclassicism style.

It is part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

"Orestes Pursued by the Furies" is an event from Greek mythology that is a recurring theme in art depicting Orestes.

In the Iliad, the king of Argos, Agamemnon, sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to the Gods to assure good sailing weather to Troy.

In Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus as revenge for sacrificing Iphigenia.

Arnaldo Ferraguti (1862-1925)

Arnaldo Ferraguti è stato un pittore Italiano Verista, celebre in vita anche per le numerose incisioni con le quali illustrò i libri dell'editore Treves.

Studiò all'Accademia di Belle Arti a Napoli, ma si formò pittoricamente anche grazie alla frequentazione del pittore verista Francesco Paolo Michetti, dal quale apprese anche l'utilizzo della fotografia come strumento per la "cattura" delle immagini.

Divenne celebre nel 1891 con l'enorme dipinto Alla vanga, oggi conservato al Museo del Paesaggio di Verbania-Pallanza, nella quale ritrasse un gruppo di braccianti intenti al lavoro sotto lo sguardo del sorvegliante.

Camille Corot: "Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error"

• "Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them".

• "Non imitare, non seguire gli altri, altrimenti resterai indietro".

• "Nessuno mi ha mai insegnato: il mio istinto mi spinge e io gli obbedisco".

He Lihuai 何力怀, 1961 | Realist painter

Mr. He Lihuai 何力怀 - Chinese painter🎨 - was born in Chongqing. He worked as an art designer at Capital Museum from 1985-1996 after receiving Art of Bachelor degree in oil painting at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 1984.

As a member of Chinese Artists Association and a professional artist.

He has been honored as a very talented oil painter in contemporary China.

Vladimir Volegov, 1957

Vladimir Volegov -born in Khabarovsk- is a many-sided visual artist from Russia now residing in Spain.

His early work centered on graphic art for music recordings, comics, and commercial posters.

He is known in the West for his realistic, profusely colored oil paintings often depicting romantically ambiance outdoor family life scenes.

Tullius Heuer | Surrealist digital painter

Tullius Heuer is a self-taught digital artist from Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.

He uses techniques like Photomanipulation and basic digital painting to bring his ideas alive.

He masterfully blends his pencil art simulations with real photos in his magical three-dimensional manipulations and the results leave us wondering what would happen if drawings came to life.

Zoltán Hornyik, 1960 | Impressionist painter

Hungarian painter Zoltán Hornyik was born in Kemecse.

His first maters were Borbála Fekete, János Kapcsa and Lajos Bíró. He graduated at the Teacher Training College of Nyíregyháza as a teacher of arts and geography in 1985.

After a short career as a teacher he transferred into arts. Since then he has been working as a freelance painter.

Otgoo Badam, 1984

Born in Ulaanbaatar, Badam Otgontuvden became an only Mongolian to teach in the Ilya Repin St Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the largest arts educational Institution andone of the most important scientific centers in Russia.

It is also considered as a one of the most well known art schools in the world.

Otgontuvden has studied at the Production Vocational School named after Radjiv Gandhi from 1999-2002 and obtained a diploma of tannery profession.

Raphael (1483-1520) | Portraits

Raphael, born Raffaello Sanzio, was crowned the "Prince of Painters" by Giorgio Vasari, a sixteenth-century biographer of artists.

From his father, Raphael learned painting; in his native Urbino, he experienced intellectual court life.

A year after his father's sudden death, Raphael entered the workshop of Urbino's leading painter at age twelve and quickly surpassed his master.

Antonio Frilli (1880-1920) | Figurative sculptor

Antonio Frilli was a Florentine🎨 sculptor who specialized in marble and alabaster statues for public and private customers.

In 1860, Frilli established his first and exclusive Atelier in via dei Fossi, Florence, where he worked with a few assistants on medium-size refined painted alabasters and big white Carrara marble statues for private villas and monumental cemeteries.

Igor Maykov, 1966

Igor Maykov was born in Riga, Latvia. Study at the Academy, a private studio, open-air... actively exhibiting since 1994 participated in many exhibitions / 19 personal / and international art projects in Latvia and abroad! paintings are in private collections around the world.

Ivan Slavinsky / Иван Славинский, 1968

Ivan Slavinsky was born in Leningrad, Russia. His father, Dmitry Oboznenko, painter of battle-pieces, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and his mother - Galina Patrabolova, art critic.

Ivan began to paint with 5 years professional skills was the at school at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The first exhibition of Ivan Slavinsky in St. Petersburg took place in the gallery "Association of Free Artists" in 1991.

Marc Chagall | Between Darkness and Light, 1938-1943

"I don't know where he (Marc Chagall) gets those images; he must have an angel in his head".

"Non so dove (Marc Chagall) ottenga quelle immagini; deve avere un angelo in testa".

Pablo Picasso

Camille Corot: "Never lose the first impression which has moved you..."

In the 1860s, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) became interested in photography, taking photos himself and becoming acquainted with many early photographers, which had the effect of suppressing his painting palette even more in sympathy with the monochromatic tones of photographs.

This had the result of making his paintings even less dramatic but somewhat more poetic, a result which caused some critics to cite a monotony in his later work.

Raffaello | La Madonna Sistina, 1513-1514

"La Madonna Sistina" è un dipinto a olio su tela (265x196 cm) di Raffaello, databile al 1513-1514 circa e conservato nella Gemäldegalerie di Dresda.

Insolito per Raffaello in quegli anni è il supporto su tela, che ha dato adito a varie ipotesi: secondo Rumohr l'opera era destinata anche ad essere usata come stendardo processionale. La datazione si basa su dati stilistici ed è in genere legata ai primi anni del pontificato di Leone X, prima dell'Estasi di Santa Cecilia.

Vasari testimonia come l'opera fosse stata dipinta per il convento di San Sisto a Piacenza, come conferma la presenza di due santi ivi particolarmente venerati.

Chen Yifei (1946-2005) | Music Player painting

Chen's works considered a unique combination of both Western and Eastern influences. Chen's style combines the realism associated with European art styles, with Eastern subject matter and themes close to the artist's history.

One such example of this unique blend is his painting Poppy which derives its content from a Tang dynasty song about a woman who solemnly questions her fate.

Camille Corot, il Salon, La Scuola di Barbizon

Dal 1828 al 1834 il pittore Francese Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (Parigi, 1796-1875) si occupò principalmente di rielaborare gli schizzi eseguiti durante il viaggio in Italia secondo canoni classicheggianti, così da poterli esporre ai Salon parigini e, eventualmente, fare furore con un pubblico e una giuria ancora vicini alla sensibilità neoclassica.

Un esempio di questi saggi è Il ponte di Narni (1826), opera in cui riprese il bozzetto di un acquedotto romano diroccato e lo trasformò in uno scenario pastorale falsamente idillico con l'aggiunta di grandi alberi frondosi e immense distese di prati.

Holly Crocker Garcia | Figurative sculptor

Holly Crocker Garcia explored different art forms including music, ballet, drawing, photography, book illustration and sculpture.

However, after a course in sculpting technique at Silvermine Guild School of the Arts in New Canaan, Connecticut, she realized that sculpting was her primary love and subsequently attended Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.

Zinovy ​​Sydoriv, 1971 | Ballet dancers

Зиновий Сыдорив🎨 is an Ukrainian painter, member of the Union of free Artists of St. Petersburg.

He was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine. Graduated from Tver art College named. A. G. Venetsianova, at the Department of decoration.

Zinovy ​​Sydoriv, 1971 | Romantic Realism painter

Зиновий Сыдорив was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine. Since 1987 lives and works in Tver. Graduated from Tver art College named. A. G. Venetsianova, at the Department of decoration.

Participant of a number of art exhibitions in Moscow, Tver and abroad.

Sydoriv is a member of the Union of free Artists of St. Petersburg.

Many works of Zinovy Sydoriv are in galleries and private collections in England, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, France, USA.

Carel Willink (1900-1983) Imaginary Realism painter

Albert Carel Willink was a Dutch painter🎨 who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism".

He was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He was the eldest son of the mechanic Jan Willink and Wilhelmina Altes. His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his son to paint.

After briefly studying medicine, in 1918-19 Willink studied architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft.

John Singer Sargent: "The thicker you paint, the more it flows"

• "Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina".

• "Impressionismo" è il nome che è stato dato ad una certa forma di osservazione quando Monet, non contento di usare gli occhi per vedere le cose o il loro aspetto come tutti gli altri avevano fatto prima di lui, ha posto la sua attenzione su ciò che accadeva nella sua retina, così come un oculista avrebbe esaminato la propria vista".

Ginette Beaulieu, 1954 | Magical realism painter

Ginette Beaulieu was always passionate about drawing and in particular, was drawn to the techniques of the Renaissance masters, of which she completed formal training from 1979-1980.

Beaulieu is educated in art restoration and in ancient painting techniques. She defines herself as a hyperrealist painter and uses oil, pastel and pencil in her work.

Her work is distinguished by the use of mediums that she develops from decanted oils and natural pigments.

Romel de la Torre, 1963

Romel de la Torre attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago, where he was awarded the President's Foundation Award and the Union League Scholarship Award🎨.

After graduating with a fine arts concentration, Romel continued to paint in the Chicago area and joined The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, where he began studying with nationally renowned artist Richard Schmid and painting with other painters. It was a turning point of his creative and artistic career.

Dan Beck, 1955

Dan Beck is an American🎨 Impressionist painter, Oil Painters of America (OPA) signature member - American Impressionist Society (AIS) signature member - Plein-Air Painters of the SouthEast (PAPSE) member .

Wanderlust was Dan's primary motivation in the decade following his graduation from high school.

Dan took to the road, working jobs that included ranch hand in Arizona, construction on the beach of Florida, refinishing furniture in Louisiana and four years in the infantry, including a two year tour in Germany.

Bryce Cameron Liston, 1965

Born in a small town in Utah, Bryce Cameron Liston believes his first desire to be an artist was formed at a very young age when he would go out with his mother while she painted the Utah landscape.

Later in school, drawing was a comfort zone for Liston.

"It was a subject that excited me - I always had energy and interest for it".

It was here that Liston found his love of the human form.

Viktor Sheleg, 1962

Victor Sheleg is an Russian self-taught artist, known for working in Abstract style. His creativity is based on his personal worldview, which earned him a solid reputation of an independent artist.

Sheleg developed his style and aesthetic preference in a country isolated from the rest of the world and known for its climate of conformity.

David Hettinger, 1946 | Pittore figurativo

David Hettinger è nato ad Aurora, nell'Illinois. Hettinger iniziò ad imparare a dipingere all'età di 8 anni.

All'età di 13 anni, un artista locale di nome Mike Spencer gli ha dato una serie di colori ad olio e così ebbe inizio la sua carriera di pittura ad olio.

Si trasferì a New York con un solo desiderio, quello di "imparare cosa fosse essere un vero artista".

Joseph Welna, proprietario della Welna Gallery di Chicago, iniziò a mostrare il lavoro di Hettinger mentre il giovane artista frequentava ancora l'American Academy of Art, a Chicago.

Welna indirizzò Hettinger a studiare con David Leffel e Richard Schmid e lo aiutò a capire come guadagnarsi da vivere come artista sin dal primo giorno.

Rumi: Ben oltre le idee di giusto e sbagliato c'è un campo. Laggiù ti aspetterò!

Jules-Joseph Lefebvre🎨 (French painter, 1836-1912) Graziella

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing there is a field.

I'll meet you there..

When the soul lies down in that grass

the world is too full to talk about"!

René Magritte (1898-1967)

René Magritte, in full René-François Ghislain Magritte, Belgian Surrealist artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy and mystery.

His works were characterized by particular symbols - the female torso, the bourgeois “little man”, the bowler hat, the castle, the rock, the window, and others.

Two museums in Brussels celebrate Magritte: the René Magritte Museum, largely a biographical museum, is located in the house occupied by the artist and his wife between 1930-1954; and the Magritte Museum, featuring some 250 of the artist’s works, opened in 2009 at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

Milan Kundera | Quotes / Aforismi

Rene Magritte (Belgian Surrealist painter, 1898-1967) | Les Amants / The Lovers

• "..No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it".

• "Contro i sentimenti siamo disarmati, poiché esistono e basta - e sfuggono a qualunque censura. Possiamo rimproverarci un gesto, una frase, ma non un sentimento: su di esso non abbiamo alcun potere".

Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926)

Ritrattista Danese di origini Tedesche, Bertha Wegmann è stata la prima donna a detenere una cattedra presso l'Accademia reale Danese di belle arti.

All'età di cinque anni, la sua famiglia si trasferì a Copenaghen, dove suo padre divenne un commerciante.

Era un amante dell'arte e ha trascorso gran parte del suo tempo libero a dipingere.

Ha mostrato interesse per il disegno in tenera età, ma non ha ricevuto istruzione formale fino a quando aveva diciannove anni, quando iniziò a prendere lezioni da Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, Heinrich Buntzen e Frederik Christian Lund.

Alexander Pushkin / Camille Claudel | I loved you / Ti amai..

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)🎨 | La Valse, 1883 | Musée Rodin, Paris

I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul

The former love has never gone away,

But let it not recall to you my dole;

I wish not sadden you in any way.

Peter McGowan | Flower paintings

Peter McGowan was born and raised in Yorkshire, England and still makes his home there.

He paints from his studio in the county that has inspired many great artists, including Henry Moore and David Hockney.

Light and its effects fascinate McGowan.

He works in several media, including oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels, to translate this interest to paper and canvas.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | Hope / La Speranza

Alex Venezia (American painter, 1993)

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all

And sweetest in the Gale is heard

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest Sea

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumb of me.

Albert André (1869-1954)

A Post-Impressionist artist and painter of 'intimiste' interiors, still lives and Parisian scenes, he was born in Lyon in 1869.

André spent his childhood vacations in Laudun where his family owned vineyards.

Aged 20, he left for Paris where he studied painting at the Académie Julian.

Dominic Davison, 1972

Dominic Davison è nato a Londra ed ora vive nel Buckinghamshire, nel Regno Unito, dove trae ispirazione per le sue scene idilliache e romantiche.

Si è specializzato nell'arte della creazione digitale e pubblica i suoi lavori su diverse testate specializzate.

L'aspetto tridimensionale dei suoi lavori richiama soggetti specifici, principalmente i cottage, inseriti in un mondo che sembra reale nonostante sia dipinto su una superficie con tecnica bidimensionale.

Ha creato arte per molti anni e in questo periodo ha costruito una fedele base di fan, che ora si estende in tutto il mondo.

Prima di entrare in MGL ha lavorato come artista freelance, pubblicando il suo lavoro su riviste come "3D Artist" e "Advanced Photoshop".

Carlo Salomoni, 1956 | Surrealist Painter / Illustrator

Carlo Salomoni is an Italian artist🎨 born in Ferrara, Italy. He is a graduate from the medical faculty with a degree in general surgery, but in 1992 decides to leave the medical activity and becomes a professional artist.

Carlo started his artist career producing art objects (small sculptures and decoration of pottery vases), some of them exposed in galleries in Ferrara and Bologna Italy. He also realized replicas of famous painters in different epoch times and styles from the year 600 to 900.

Juan Muñoz | Storyteller sculptor

Juan Muñoz (1953-2001)was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze.

He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller".

In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.

His first exhibition was in 1984 in the Fernando Vijande gallery of Madrid. Since then, his works have been frequently exhibited in Europe and other parts of the world.

Ben Hammond, 1977 | Figurative sculptor

Ben Hammond was raised in the rural town of Pingree, Idaho, where his love for art was nurtured from the time he was a small boy.

He studied art at Ricks College graduating with a degree in Illustration.

While at college, he found himself dedicating more and more of his time to sculpting. He also gained a great appreciation for traditional art and decided to devote his time to sculpting the human figure. His passion for the beauty of the human figure is exemplified in his art.