Kei Mieno 三重野慶, 1985 | Realist painter

Kei Mieno is a Japanese artist born in Hiroshima who has been painting professionally for more than 10 years already.

In 2007 Mieno graduating from Hiroshima City University - Faculty of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting.

This painter specializes in hyperrealism, and mostly uses oil paint to create his masterpieces.

Claudio Bravo Camus' 83rd Birthday

Google decided to remember this Friday, November 8, the Chilean painter Claudio Bravo Camus.

This date corresponds to the birthday of the remembered artist, who would turn 83 today. Although he died in 2011, his legacy is still present in the art world.

Claudio Bravo, -Claudio Nelson Bravo Camus- (born Nov. 8, 1936, Valparaíso, Chile - died June 4, 2011, Taroudant, Mor.), initially established himself as a society portrait painter in Chile and Spain, but he became better known for his vibrant still lifes of such everyday items as packages, crumpled paper and draped fabric.

Henri Fantin-Latour interprets Schumann, Wagner, Brahms and Berlioz

In the 1870s, Henri Fantin-Latour's (French painter and lithographer, 1836-1904) work shifted towards more literary themes that connected him with Symbolism.

In parallel with this development, his works reflected his discovery of the German contemporary music of Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner and Hector Berlioz which also provided him with a source of inspiration.

Joan Miró: "I painted in a frenzy.."

• "You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life".

• "Puoi guardare una pittura per una settimana e non pensarci mai più. Puoi anche guardare una pittura per un secondo e pensarci per tutta la vita".

• "If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere".

• "Se hai idea di dove stai andando, non arriverai mai da nessuna parte".

Daniel Ridgway Knight | A Halt, 1890

After Daniel Ridgway Knight’s first artistic successes in Paris, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissioner invited him to move to Poissy, a rural town not far outside the city limits. The renowned Meissonier was impressed with Ridgway Knight's talent and offered his protégé advice and a challenge: to paint a large picture from a recent sketch.

Ridgway Knight boldly met his mentor's goal, and the resulting painting of 1875, Les Laveuses (sold in these rooms April 25, 2006, lot 142) set him in a new direction, informing a series of ambitious and complex multi-figural compositions, like the present work.

Nina Reznichenko , 1973 | Abstract painter

Ukrainian painter Nina Reznichenko was born in Bukovyna. She graduated from Vyzhnytsia College of Applied Arts.

She is a member of the Ukrainian National Society of Artists, member of International association of Artists' Art without Borders.

Nina is a very poetic artist. Her painting is spontaneous, irrational and tends to abstraction. This is a play of light and deep shadows, textures of pasty strokes and transparency of oil paint drips, which turns into an image of bouquets and landscapes.

Nina Reznichenko took part in many exhibitions in Ukraine, Europe, UK, USA. Her paintings are in private collections in different countries.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867

This portrait depicts Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, the 12-year-old daughter of Édouard de Fitz-James (French soldier, politician, Peer of France, and 6th Duke of Fitz-James, who descended from the British House of Stuart, 1776-1838).

Fantin-Latour painted a series of portraits of her family members in preparation for a large group portrait that was never completed.

Although Fantin-Latour frequently exhibited with his close friend Édouard Manet and the Impressionists, he remained committed to traditional studio production and never painted outdoors.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Marie-Yolande de Fitz-James, 1867 | Cleveland Museum of Art

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), known for his portraits and flower still lifes, never shared the artistic viewpoint of his friends and contemporaries, the Impressionists.

He remained a traditional academic painter throughout his career and the style of this portrait reflects the romanticism of an earlier generation. | Cleveland Museum of Art

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Naturalist / Genre painter

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (January 7, 1852 - July 3, 1929), was one of the leading French artists of the Naturalist school, best known for his painstakingly detailed re-creations of peasant scenes.

He also created portraits and religious paintings.

He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor, and was raised by his grandfather after his father emigrated to Brazil.