Sentences with phrase «few early portraits»

Apart from a few early portraits Bacon never painted from life and preferred working from photographs as the presence of his models inhibited him.

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I first spotted Self Portrait earlier last year and wore this dress in blue to a few events last year including a bridal shower and cocktail party on the Anthem of the Seas cruise I went on in November.

With only a few of her movies available to contemporary viewers, her finely drawn portraits of earlier decades may be increasingly unfamiliar.

A few lots later, after Sotheby's Vienna representative had bought Klimt's # 48 million Flower Garden for an anonymous client, she became engaged in a drawn - out battle for a small early portrait by Klimt which she bought to a round of applause for a triple - estimate # 4.3 million.

Sue Williamson has been a key figure on the South African art scene since the early 1980s when she produced A Few South Africans, a groundbreaking series of portrait prints featuring women in the struggle against apartheid.

Outstanding in the first room is his absolutely stunning picture postcard painting «Santa Margherita Ligure», 1964, and a painting of the famous cubist painter «Portrait of Juan Gris» 1963, one of the artist's early works, intriguing for its predominate figure, as he produced few figurative paintings; advancing to the fifth room where light and shadows are being used in Caulfield classic twee interior scenes to understand the depth of pictorial space.

Though I still loved seeing some of the work, I couldn't help having the feeling that it seemed like something (perhaps an alcohol problem) derailed him a number of times, that some lack of clarity in his decisions over the years led him astray a few times.  Besides that, one point I didn't see brought up was the originality of his color schemes from the semi-figurative portraits of the late 30s to early 40s.