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.

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”.