Author: SidranneGB (Page 44 of 53)

The white lilac

Inspired by Edouard Manet (1832-1883) – White lilacs Lilas in a crystal vase (1882) – Pastel – 10,63 x 6,30 inch

A sweet memory of my childhood overwhelms me suddenly as I walk lazily in this path in the middle of nowhere.

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One day I’ll go to New York …

Charcoal / White chalk / Red chalk on white paper – 11,81 x 7,87 inch – Unique work

As I sang this song in my head, as my wished holidays in the countryside had just fallen by the wayside, as my best computer friend guided me, I decided to fly to the city that never sleeps: New York.

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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) is an Austrian symbolist painter and active member of the Art Nouveau movement and the Vienna Secession. He is a complete artist: painter of character compositions, allegorical subjects, figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes, draftsman, decorator, painter of tapestry boxes, mosaics, ceramist, lithographer.

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Danae

Inspired by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) – Danaé (1907/1908) – Oil on cardboard – 11,81 x 11,81 inch – SOLD

One morning, Acrisios, king of Argos, feeling desperate because he had no son, goes to Delphi to question the Gods if, by any chance, he could be the father of a male. Unfortunately, the priestess tells him that not only would his wishes not be fulfilled but his only daughter, Danae, would give birth to a son who would later kill him. And the only way to escape from that spell was to kill his own daughter himself.

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Rhododendron

Watercolour / Gouache – 5,90 x 7,8 inch – Unique work

I had a wierd and penetrating dream.

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A romantic getaway

Watercolour / Black stone / Gouache – 8,66 x 6,10 inch – Unique work

Pascal is madly in love with his wife Veronique. For their 20 years wedding anniversary, he had a tremendous idea. His children would willingly add “for a change! “. Probably not quite creative but he knows from a reliable source, his mother-in-law, that it’s her life’s dream: Venice! Visit the city before the water has drowned it.

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The old man with a cane

Watercolour / Black stone / Gouache – 6,10 x 8,66 inch – Unique work

For her 40th bithday, Maud, recently divorced, decided to go to Venice with Geraldine, her 7-year-old daughter for a few days.

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Mary Cassat

Mary Cassat (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) is an American painter and engraver.

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Julie, Peter and the Wolf

Inspired by Mary Cassat (1844-1926) – Little girl with a blue hat (around 1911) – Pastel – 11,81 x 9,45 inch

Julie gets lonely in her pink and white wallpapers’ bedroom. It’s time for her little nap and her mother’s favorite TV show, she needs to remain quiet. She leaves her bed, takes her record player left on her little white table and goes back in her sheets. She wants to listen again and again to the story of Peter and the wolf. She loves the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, the horns, the bassoon, the string instruments, the kettledrums and the bass drum standing for all the characters of this tale.

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Hare stew

Inspired Jean Siméon Chardin (1699 – 1779) – Hare and copper pot (around 1738)  – Oil on canvas – 16,14 x 12,99 inch

I made a dream last night. A dream coming from my childhood. A dream paying tribute to my grandmother. Every summer, I made my heart happy in the family home in central France. Ii came to my knowledge much later that it was Berry. And a further later that it was George Sand’s land. To fall asleep in the afternoons, my grandmother used to read stories to me. I could choose the one I wanted. And without knowing why, I always took La Mare au diable. The title enchanted me as much as it frightened me. I didn’t know that it had been written by the « great lady ». Her grandmother’s favorite author.

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