Tag: monkey

Colleagues keeping warm 1951

Pet Indian monkey named Josephine with its colleague Peter the cat, November 1951 | src getty images

Original caption on source: Miss Maria Chaliter, of Lowfield Heath, Crawley, Sussex, has advertised for a home for her 14 year old pet, an Indian monkey named Josephine. The owner has little time to devote to Josephine new she works on the land. During the day the monkey sits between a hot water bottle and paraffin stove to keep warm, with its colleague, Peter the cat. These pictures show the scene in the kitchen of Miss Chaliter’s home today with Josephine endeavouring to keep warm. November 1951.

Rozentals · Princess and monkey

Janis Rozentāls (1866 – 1916) ~ The Princess and the Monkey, 1913, oil on canvas. Latvian National Museum of Art via Google Arts

In the last years of his life, Janis Rozentāls repeatedly returned to the composition with the figures of a princess and monkey. The first of the painting was exhibited in 1913 at the 3rd Baltic Artists Union exhibition and at the international art show in Munich where the Leipzig publisher Velhagen & Klasing acquired reproduction rights ensuring wide popularity for the work. The symbolic content of the decoratively resplendent Art Nouveau composition has been interpreted as an allegory of the relationship between artist and society reflecting the power of money over the artist; on other occasions, the princess is seen as “great, beautiful art” but the monkey as the artist bound by golden chains – its servant and plaything. [quoted from Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka (link)]

Janis Rozentāls (1866 – 1916) ~ The Princess and the Monkey, 1913 [DETAIL]

Mascarade, 1909

Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade (1909). Published in Jugend magazine, 1914, issue nº 6. | src Heidelberg University Library
Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade (1909) [Detail]. Published in Jugend magazine, 1914, issue nº 6. | src Heidelberg University Library
Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade – Mascarade (1909) [Detail]
Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade (1909). Published in Jugend magazine, 1914, issue nº 6. | src Heidelberg University Library
Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade (1909). Published in Jugend magazine, 1914, issue nº 6. | src Heidelberg University Library
Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade (1909). Published in Jugend magazine, 1914, issue nº 6. | src Heidelberg University Library
Adolf Münzer :: Maskerade – Mascarade (1909) [Detail]