Monday, November 06, 2017

Sunday, November 05, 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Joseph Mugnaini (1912 - 1992)

Joseph Mugnaini - Cover illustration from
 The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury,  1972Joseph Mugnaini - Cover illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury,  1972

Joseph Mugnaini - Mr. Moundshroud, illustration from The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury, 1972
Mr. Moundshroud, illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - Mr. Moundshroud, 
interior art for ''The Halloween Tree" 
1972Mr. Moundshroud, interior art for ''The Halloween Tree" 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - Mr. Moundshroud, version
 2, interior art for ''The Halloween Tree" 
1972Mr. Moundshroud, version 2, interior art for ''The Halloween Tree" 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - illustration from The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury, 1972
Illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - Witch illustration from 
The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury, 1972Witch illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - House illustration from
 The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury,  1972House illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - The Halloween Kite, 
1972The Halloween Kite, illustration from "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury, 1972

Joseph Mugnaini - The Halloween Kite, 
1981The Halloween Kite, 1981

Joseph Mugnaini - The October Country by 
Ray Bradbury, 1955"The October Country" by Ray Bradbury, 1955

Friday, September 29, 2017

Alan Odle (1888–1948)


Alan Oldle - Title Unknown 2

Alan Odle - The Crucial Incision, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922The Crucial Incision, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

Alan Odle - The Illness of Candide in Paris, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922The Illness of Candide in Paris, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

Alan Odle - Oreillon Reception, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922Oreillon Reception, illustration from "Candide" by Voltaire, 1922

Alan Oldle - Title Unknown 1

Alan Odle - The Malicious SatyrThe Malicious Satyr

Alan Oldle - Title Unknown 4

Alan Odle - Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy", 1915
Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915

Alan Odle - Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915
Illustration from the magazine "The Gypsy," 1915
 Alan Oldle - Title Unknown 3

"Alan Elsden Odle was an English illustrator, remembered today as the husband of the English novelist Dorothy Richardson, whom he married in 1917.  His grotesque and subversive style was a precursor of surrealism. He illustrated an English edition of Voltaire's Candide (G. Routledge, 1922), Mark Twain's 1601: A Tudor Fireside Conversation, a salute to scatology and Elizabethan manners (London: Printed for Subscribers only, 1936), and The Mimiambs of Herondas.  He also designed the dust jacket for James Hanley's Ebb and Flow (London: John Lane, 1932), other Hanley novels for Lane, and Dorothy Richardson's Backwater (1916).  He contributed to a number of periodicals such as The Gypsy, The Golden Hind (1922–25), the US Vanity Fair, The Studio, and the UK Argosy.

Odle was a distinctly bohemian figure and he associated with an artistic circle that included Augustus John, Jacob Epstein, and Wyndham Lewis. When he married Dorothy Richardson he was tubercular and an alcoholic, and was not expected to live long. However, he stopped drinking and lived until 1948. Odle was very thin and "over six feet tall with waist-length hair wound around the outside of his head", which he never cut. He also rarely cut his fingernails. From 1917 until 1939, the couple spent their winters in Cornwall and their summers in London; and then stayed permanently in Cornwall until Odle’s death in 1948. Richardson supported herself and her husband with freelance writing for periodicals for many years, as Alan made little money from his art." - quote source


Artworks found at Victor Arwas Gallery, Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd and alanodle.com


Thursday, September 21, 2017

Claude Gillot (1673 - 1722)

Claude Gillot - Wandering at NightWandering at Night
 Claude Gillot - Is It an EnchantmentIs It an Enchantment

Claude Gillot - The Feast of BacchusThe Feast of Bacchus
 Claude Gillot - Feast of PanFeast of Pan
 Claude Gillot - Feast of DianaFeast of Diana
 Claude Gillot - Passion for GamblingPassion for Gambling
 Claude Gillot - Passion for WealthPassion for Wealth
 Claude Gillot - Passion for LovePassion for Love
 Claude Gillot - Passion for WarPassion for War
 Claude Gillot - Festival of the God PanFestival of the God Pan

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Dante Visiting the Underworld, 17th century

Dante Visiting the Underworld, Dutch school, 17th century

While not mentioned on the Jan Muller Antiques site where the painting was found, It has been attributed to David Ryckaert the Younger elsewhere. Additional paintings by Ryckaert were previously posted here.

Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburg (1571 - 1638)

Jacob van Swanenburg - The Sibyl showing Aeneas the Underworld, 1620Sibyl showing Aeneas the Underworld, 1620

Jacob Isaacsz van Swanenburg - The Crossing of the Styx, 1591-1638The Crossing of the Styx, 1591-1638

More paintings from Swanenburg were previously shared here.