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Pablo Picasso: "Portrait Of Francoise Gilot Seated On A Bath" Drawn and Signed in ink & Dated in his style 4th October 1950. Picasso re-used this sheet of paper, having earlier used the other side to form a charcoal sketch. Having given up on that, he turned over the page (evidencing he was short of art paper) and drew a baseline in charcoal at the bottom with the rest of this novel work then being completed with an ink art pen. This is a nude portrait of his then girlfriend Francoise Gilot seated on the edge of a bath and holding or twirling a piece of string, We can see this is the profile of Francoise by her distinctive nose and her raised eyebrow line. The signature and date are authentically formed in Picasso's known style. If you compare with other signed lithographs and artworks on paper you will see the form of the signature and numerals (particularly the 4 and 5 here) positively match many other known works by the master. Because the paper was re-used and because this artwork is fainter than… Read More

Original artwork on paper signed and dated by Pablo Picasso ink & mixed media PORTRAIT OF OLGA PICASSO. Dated 1969 in ink, this is an ink-lined watercolour & dye portrait on paper. Mixed media watercolour on white paper by Pablo Picasso of his first wife the Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova in the African head-dress she wore as a famous dancer in the 1920's. A retrospective piece for Picasso working on the theme of his oldest muse at the tail end of his life. A typical re-expression here while keeping Olga's staring eye as the central focus, adding a deep blue dye (applied to rear of paper) at her neck, as well as radiating fields behind and before her head, each with a spot or point of focus. Olga was Picasso's first great muse and wife from 1917-55 when she passed away. Their relationship is well documented. The signature is neat and authentic. It can be checked against other examples of Picasso's known lithographs and paper medium artworks. His variable signatures were of one range of styles with a… Read More

c.1815 Oil on canvas gilt framed portrail of King Philip IV of Spain.
Attributed to Sir Thomas Lawrence crafted in the manner or style of Diego Velazquez, the Court Painter.
The painting was dated by an expert valuer to 1810-20 based on the frame, the age of the paint and also by the particular weave of the canvas, being of the type woven on the earliest canvas-making machine which was invented in 1805 in France and became used more widely from 1810 onwards.
The subject King Philip IV reigned from 1621-1665 having been born in 1605. He was called the Planet King (Rey Planeta) and reigned during the Thirty Years War, while also being renowned as a patron of some of the earliest great Old Master artists such as Spaniard Diego Velazquez and also Peter Paul Rubens the famous Flemish artist.
The last three great Old Masters of the British painters were John Singer Sargent, George Stubbs and Sir Thomas Lawrence. As masters themselves, they studied the forms of the older masters and re-worked their themes,… Read More