Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-1884) | Genre painter

Marie Bashkirtseff, original name Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, (born November 12 [November 24, New Style], 1858, Gavrontsy, Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire - died October 19 [October 31], 1884, Paris, France), Russian émigré best known for her sensitive and girlishly candid autobiography in French, Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff, avec un portrait, 2 vol. (1887). Though her diary is justly responsible for her reputation, she was also a highly talented visual artist and a high-spirited feminist.

Bashkirtseff was the daughter of Russian minor nobility, and she spent a peripatetic childhood with her mother - her parents had separated after two years of marriage - in Germany and on the Riviera until they settled in Paris.

Titian | The Music Lesson / La lezione di musica, 1535

Artist: Possibly by Titian (Italian High Renaissance painter, 1488/90 -1576)

Full title: The Music Lesson

Date made about: 1535

Medium and support: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 99 x 120 cm

Current location: The National Gallery, London.

This work used to be dated to the early 17th century, but recent cleaning and technical examination have shown that it has much in common with paintings produced by Titian and his workshop in the 1530s.

Alfredo Roldan, 1965 | Figurative Cubism painter

Alfredo Roldàn was born in Madrid. At the age of 22, having had no formal artistic training, he started drawing professionally, selling his work in street markets, at the same time presenting his work at major competitions, of which he won several.

It was on winning the award granted by the City Council of Madrid in 1994 that he was discovered by a major gallery.

His winning painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, Madrid.

In 1996 he was named a Member of the Senate "Honoris Causa" of the Academy of Modern Art of Rome.

Frans Wilhelm Odelmark | Genre / Orientalist painter

Frans Wilhelm Odelmark (Västervik, province of Kalmar, Sweden, 1849 - Stockholm, 1937) was a Swedish realist painter.
He studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Traveled to Andalusia (Spain) reflected on the canvas where representations of the Alhambra in Granada, and he traveled to Egypt where he painted several great works in which he knew very colorful represent the atmosphere of the city of Cairo and Italia, Frans died in Stockholm on 1937.

Edgar Degas | Dans les coulisses, 1882-1885

Dans les coulisses, executed by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)🎨 circa 1882-1885, (66.7x37.5 cm), was sold for £8,993,750 / $12.555.275 in the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 27 February 2018 at Christie’s in London.

Dans les coulisses, thought to have been executed between 1882 and 1885. Perhaps no other artist is as closely associated with the performance arts as Degas, and this painting transports the viewer to the world of the Paris Opéra, which opened in 1875. Degas was a frequent visitor, and the Opéra became one of his favoured subjects.

Described by Christie’s Global President Jussi Pylkkänen as ‘one of the most noble and beautiful works by Degas that I’ve seen on the market in the past 30 years’, says Christie’s Global President Jussi Pylkkänen.