Sentences with phrase «century odalisque»
They sit comfortably together with one, presumably a woman by the blue necklace that she wears, casually relaxing into the other's arms while her legs are propped up on a trunk of sorts in the likeness of an 18th - century odalisque painting.
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Tonight at Christie's sale of 19th - and 20th - century works from the collection of the late Peggy and David Rockefeller, Henri Matisse's Odalisque couchée aux magnolias (1923) went for $ 80.8 million, a record for a work by the artist at auction.
They include a 15th - century Holbeinesque male portrait, a gray - tinted Ingres odalisque, abstract pictures by Ad Reinhardt and Gerhard Richter, and a Horace Pippin self - portrait as tiny, and every bit as precious, as the Met's famous Duccio «Madonna and Child.»
In this stunning piece she matches odalisques — the Orientalist 19th - century portraits of elegantly contorted harem concubines — with portraits she had taken of her friends and lovers in reclining poses.
As such, his trademark BMW Art Car design includes trompe l'oeil images of Bronzino's 16th century painting «Portrait of Young Man» and Ingres's» Odalisque.»
In her large - scale photographs that conjure up the reclining odalisques of nineteenth - century Orientalist paintings, Essaydi empowers her figures with defiant gazes that resist voyeurism and stereotypes of exoticism.
During the 19th century, odalisques became common fantasy figures in the artistic movement known as Orientalism, being featured in many erotic paintings from that era.
Can there be a college survey of 19th - century painting which neglects to trace the transformation of The Valpinçon Bather of 1808 into the 1826 Bather of the Phillips Collection into the Odalisque
Over the course of her trailblazing artistic career, Mickalene Thomas has drawn inspiration from prolific artists and pop culture icons alike, from 1970s supermodel Beverly Johnson to Edouard Manet's Odalisque figures of the 19th Century.