Elie Anatole Pavil (1873-1948)

Nato a Odessa, Elie Anatole Pavil arrivò a Parigi nel 1892 e si dedicò a catturarne l'atmosfera su tela.

Per la maggior parte dei successivi cinquant'anni dipinse i caffè, le belle donne, i gruppi jazz e gli atelier di artisti di Parigi.

I suoi dipinti mostrano una conoscenza intima degli abitanti delle strade e dei vicoli di Montmartre.

Eleganti coppie che ballano, bellissime modelle in posa, uomini che lavorano che finiscono la giornata con un drink al bar, tutto è stato catturato nelle composizioni attentamente bilanciate di Pavil, molte delle quali mostrano la distinta influenza di Degas e Renoir.

Crawfurd Adamson, 1953 | Figurative painter

Crawfurd Adamson, born in Edinburgh, is a noted figurative artist from Scotland, although he has spent much of his career in the South of England.

He has exhibited widely and internationally, and has paintings in major collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National Fleming Collection in London.

He came to note in the 1980s and 90s, with extensive international shows including Monaco, Hong Kong and Spain. His work fell out of fashion during the late 90s, as the art market took a preference to conceptual works, rather than traditional media such as oil painting or pastels.

Pavel Bergr, 1957 | Imaginative painter

Pavel Bergr was born in the city of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. He spent his childhood in a Gothic castle in Střekov and a Renaissance palace in Libochovice.

He studied glass making and blowing at the Shool of Glasses in Zelezny Brod, illustration and graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in Prague and at the "Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci", in Perugia, Italy.

Member of the International Imaginative Artists Association (IIAA).

Since 1986 Bergr realizes more than 40 individual exhibitoins: Czech and Slovak Republic, Germany, Austria.

Rembrandt: "La pittura è nipote della natura"

• "Choose only one master - Nature!"

• "Scegliete un solo maestro - La Natura!"

• "Without atmosphere a painting is nothing".

• "Senza l'atmosfera, un quadro non è niente".

Christian Krohg | Naturalist / Genre painter

Christian Krohg (1852-1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motives from everyday life.

He was the director and served as the first professor at the Norwegian Academy of Arts from 1909-1925.

Christian Krohg was born at Vestre Aker (now Oslo), Norway. His father was a civil servant, journalist and author.

From 1861, he attended Hartvig Nissen School.

His father had asked him to pursue a legal career. Krohg studied law at the University of Oslo (then Christiania) graduating cand.jur. in 1873, the same year in which his father died.