Ivan Alifan Jdanov, 1989

Ivan Alifan Jdanov, Russian-born Canadian painter, currently living in Canada. He attended the OCAD University in Toronto, Canada, and is son of the very talented Russian painter Anna Razumovskaya🎨.

Ivan recently participated in the Los Angeles International art fair, and had his work shown alongside Malcolm Liepke🎨 and Jeremy Lipking🎨.

Whether it is beautifully rendered charcoal drawings, of the colorful, brushy, and energetic paintings, Ivan is an extremely talented artist.

Peder Severin Krøyer | Impressionist painter

Peder Severin Krøyer (23 July 1851 - 21 November 1909) portrayed the life of the artists.

Scenes such as walking along the beach, dining together, and the magnificent atmosphere of the evenings in the moonlight was Krøyer’s chosen motifs.

Krøyer was 14 years old when he first enrolled to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

He was quite talented as an artist, and he was respected as a portrait painter, which by this time was a very prestigious genre.

Piero della Francesca | Early Renaissance painter

Piero della Francesca, original name Piero di Benedetto dei Franceschi, (born c. 1416/17, Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence, Italy - died October 12, 1492, Sansepolcro), painter whose serene, disciplined exploration of perspective had little influence on his contemporaries but came to be recognized in the 20th century as a major contribution to the Italian Renaissance.

The fresco cycle The Legend of the True Cross (1452-66) and the diptych portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, and his consort (1465) are among his best-known works.

Johan Christian Dahl | Romantic painter

Born in Bergen Norway and trained at the Copenhagen Academy, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl (1788-1857) nonetheless spent most of his working career in Germany.

He is thus claimed by all three schools for their own, although it was his influence on the latter that was more important, as from 1824 until his death he held the senior professorship of art at the Dresden Academy.

His memories of his homeland, however, provided him with themes that he reused throughout his career, but it was his attention to nature and use of the plein-air sketch that earned him the Dresden appointment in preference to Friedrich.

Camille Claudel, Debussy and La Valse, 1891

Created at the height of her artistic career, Camille Claudel's🎨 La Valse, is a stunning example of the sophistication and skill of the young sculptress.

This dynamic rendering of a couple in movement, with its detailed and complex treatment surface and form, is considered among her best sculptures.

Claudel created La Valse near the end of her 10 year love affair with Auguste Rodin🎨, a passionate relationship filled with conflict, hard work, disputes and ultimately disappointment. One of her most erotic sculptures, Claudel presented her dancers naked in the first version, which has sadly since disappeared.