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.

Khalil Gibran | Ho imparato il silenzio da chi parla troppo..

Ho imparato il silenzio da chi parla troppo,

la tolleranza dagli intolleranti,

la gentilezza dai malvagi;

e, per quanto possa sembrare strano,

sono grato a questi insegnanti.

Lev Tchistovsky / Лев Чистовский | Classical painter

Лев Чистовский [1902-1969] was born in Pskov, Russia. Laureate in 1924 of the Fine Arts Academy of Leningrad with Savinsky and Eberling as professors, he left the Soviet Union in 1925.

He studied two years at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where he met Irene Klestova🎨 who was also studying there. She became his companion until his death. They came both to Paris in 1926, settled there and worked together. Tchistovsky kept out of all the pictorial trends appearing in the twenties between Montparnasse and Montmartre.

The art historian Lukomsky called him an authentic resistant of the classical painting. His work and especially his figures and his large size watercolors attained a remarkable technical perfection. They include portraits of celebrities, figures, still-lives, mythological scenes, flowers and icons, these last ones being his passion.

Chagall / Khalil Gibran | Farò della mia anima../I will do a casket of my soul

Farò della mia anima uno scrigno

per la tua anima,

del mio cuore una dimora

per la tua bellezza,

del mio petto un sepolcro

per le tue pene.

Henry Asencio, 1972 | Essence of Woman..

Henry Asencio is an award-winning🎨 contemporary American painter who works largely in the medium of oil on canvas.

Asencio is widely known for his paintings of the female form on abstract backgrounds.

His works’ “personal investigations of femininity, spirituality and abstraction possess the power to transform today’s ideals of contemporary sensuality and simple elegance”.

Asencio’s painting style is loosely defined in a contemporary format, combining elements of expressionism and realism with abstract painting techniques. Asencio’s art has been described as “Abstract Expressionism” and “Abstract Realism”.

Henry Asencio, 1972 | Abstract Realism painter

American painter Henry Asencio🎨 has emerged as one of the most intriguing young artists working today.

His work blends the classical ideals of figurative painting with a unique style. Merging introspection and visual spectacle, Asencio's🎨 personal investigations of the figure, spirituality and abstraction possess the power to transform todays ideals of elegance and sensuality.

Henry Asencio, 1971 | Flamenco dancers

Henry Asencio⏭ is an award-winning⏩ contemporary American painter⏭ who works largely in the medium of oil on canvas. Asencio was born in Los Angeles.

For biographical notes and other works by Asencio see:

• Henry Asencio, 1972 ~ Abstract Expressionists painter
• Henry Asencio, 1972 ~ Essence of Woman.

Lin Ching Che, 1987 | Watercolor painter

Taiwanese painter Lin Ching Che is a member of several major associations of artists. He prefers to paint with watercolors. Most of his paintings are urban landscapes and still life.

Lin Ching Che was born in Taipei, Taiwan.

He received his first art education at the local elementary school, after that was high school, the National University of the Arts, and National Taiwan Institute of Fine Arts. Currently, the artist is a member in several international associations of Watercolor artists. Over the last twelve years, Lin Ching Che regularly participates in all kinds of exhibitions.