Philippe Le Miere 'After Diego Velázquez royal portrait' neo-expressionismFor their February 1st auction, Sothebys was set to offer the most impressive Diego Velzquez painting to meet the market in over fifty years. If sold, the portrait of Spanish Queen Isabel de Borbn, valued at $35 million USD, would have more than doubled Velzquez's auction record. In the first weeks of January, however, it quietly disappeared from sale. Velzquez, a master of 17th century art, is best known for his court portraiture. Queen Isabel (1632)
Like a matured ‘Where The Wild Things Are’
beauty and faith – reticent of new beginnings
the suite traverses the vast
Her work is set in this childlike tone
sketches a woman reclining through a window
terracotta land
The story behind ‘The Kimberly Album’ is stranger than fiction
lively and highly personal imagery
when Jaws crashed onto screens it took a chunk out of the popular imagination
Taylor has an enthusiastic collector following
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The Muse III was sketched during the Blackman family's time spent living in Paris - a time of great creative development for Charles
