Howard Coster ~ Gluck [Hannah Gluckstein (1895โ1978)], ca. 1932 ยฉ Fine Arts Society | src BBC~ A Queer EyeGluck (Hannah Gluckstein) (1895-1978) by unknown. From : Gluck : Art and Identity | src NYTRomaine Brooks ~ Peter (A Young English Girl), 1923-1924, oil on canvas SAAM-1970.70_2
Peter depicts British painter Hannah Gluckstein, heir to a catering empire who adopted the genderless professional name Gluck in the early 1920s. By the time Brooks met her at one of Natalie Barney’s literary salons, Gluckstein had begun using the name Peyter (Peter) Gluck. She unapologetically wore men’s suits and fedoras, clearly asserting the association between androgyny and lesbian identity. Brooks’s carefully nuanced palette and quiet, empty space produced an image of refined and austere modernity. ~ The Art of Romaine Brooks, 2016
Roland Penrose :: Four Women Asleep (Lee Miller, Adrienne Fidelin, Nusch Eluard, and Leonora Carrington), Lambe Creek, Cornwall, 1937. Print from color reversal film. ยฉ Roland Penrose Estate | src Lee Miller
Surrealist artist Mary Leonora Carrington was born at Westwood House (in Clayton Green, England) on the 6th of April in 1917; today she would have turned 106.
Leonora Carrington :: The Giantess (also, The Guardian of the Egg), 1947. Tempera on wood. Private collection of Miguel Escobedo
Catherine Larrรฉ :: ยซ Anthรจsesย ยป Musรฉe de la Photographie Charles Nรจgre, dans le cadre de la Biennale des Arts de Nice | src ODLPCatherine Larrรฉ :: ยซ Anthรจsesย ยป Musรฉe de la Photographie Charles Nรจgre, dans le cadre de la Biennale des Arts de Nice | src ODLP also on IG
Thรฉophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) ::L’รtรฉ-Chat sur une Balustrade (top) & L’Hiver-Chat sur un Coussin (bottom), 1909 Lithographs in colors on heavy wove paper and wove paper backed with Japan, printed by R. Engelmann, Paris. | src Bonhams
Remedios Varo ~ La creaciรณn de las aves, 1957. Oil on canvas | src MAMMRemedios Varo ~ Sin tรญtulo (Bosquejo de la Creaciรณn de las aves, 1957) | src MAM ~ Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico)Remedios Varo ~ La creaciรณn de las aves, 1957. Oil on canvas (DETAIL) | src MAMM
Otto Dix (1891-1969) ~ Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden, 1926. Oil and tempera on wood | src Centre Pompidou
Journaliste ร Berlin dans les annรฉes 1920, Sylvia von Harden (1894-1963) s’affiche en intellectuelle รฉmancipรฉe par une pose nonchalante. Otto Dix contrarie son arrogance par le dรฉtail d’un bas dรฉfait. Sa robe-sac ร gros carreaux rouges dรฉtonne avec l’environnement rose, typique de l’art nouveau. Le style rรฉaliste, froid et satirique est caractรฉristique du mouvement de la Nouvelle Objectivitรฉ [Neue Sachlichkeit] auquel appartient le peintre. Il s’inspire des maรฎtres allemands du dรฉbut du 16e siรจcle (Grรผnewald, Cranach et Holbein), par la technique de la tempera sur bois et l’exhibition d’une intรฉressante laideur. | src Centre Pompidou
Sylvia von Harden (1894-1963) was a journalist in Berlin in the 1920s. Her nonchalant stance is a statement of her emancipated intellectual role. Otto Dix undermines her arrogance with the detail of a loose stocking and her rather awkward pose. Her red-checkered sack dress contrast with the pink environment, typically Art Nouveau. The cold, satirical realism typifies the New Objectivity [Neue Sachlichkeit] movement to which the painter belonged. lnspired by early 16th-century German masters (Grรผnewald, Cranach and Holbein), he embraced the tempera on wood panel technique as well as the choice to exhibit the ugliness. | src Centre Pompidou
Note the inscription of her aristocratic name “Sylvia von Harden” on the inner cover of the cigarette box Detail from: Otto Dix ~ Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden, 1926. Huile et tempera sur boisAugust Sander (1876-1964) ~ Secretary at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne [Sylvia von Harden], 1931 | src Tate GalleryAugust Sander (1876-1964) ~ Sekretรคrin beim Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Kรถln [Sylvia von Harden], 1931 | src Centre PompidouOtto Dix (1891-1969) ~ Bildnis der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden, 1926 (scan)
Installรฉ ร Berlin entre 1925 et 1927, Dix peint une sรฉrie de portraits remarquables. Maintes fois reproduit et exposรฉ, celui de la journaliste Sylvia von Harden, de son vrai nom Sylvia Lehr (1894-1963), est lโun des plus fascinants. Il offre une vรฉritable synthรจse dโune recherche picturale qui sโinscrit dans ce que le critique Gustav Hartlaub dรฉsigne comme ยซ lโaile gauche vรฉriste ยป de la Neue Sachlichkeit [Nouvelle objectivitรฉ]. La reprรฉsentation sans complaisance dโun type humain ร travers ses attributs sโexprime dans le choix dโune intellectuelle รฉmancipรฉe des annรฉes 1920, aux allures masculines, fumant et buvant seule dans un cafรฉ. […] Lโimage de la journaliste, que Dix a rencontrรฉe au Romanische Cafรฉ, haut-lieu berlinois du monde littรฉraire et artistique, reste pourtant ambiguรซ. Si dans ses souvenirs publiรฉs ร la fin des annรฉes 1950, la journaliste รฉmigrรฉe ร Londres affirme que Dix lโa choisie pour son allure, reprรฉsentative de cette รฉpoque, il semble que lโartiste la montre aussi en porte-ร -faux par rapport ร un type et un rรดle dans lesquels elle paraรฎt mal ร lโaise. Sa pose nonchalante, mais peu naturelle, paraรฎt trop ostentatoire ; son arrogance intellectuelle est contrariรฉe par lโimage de son bas dรฉfait ; et sa robe-sac ร gros carreaux rouges lโoppose ร lโenvironnement rose Art nouveau. Cette mise ร nu semble avoir รฉchappรฉ au modรจle. | src Centre Pompidou
Living in Berlin between 1925 and 1927, Dix painted a series of remarkable portraits. Reproduced and exhibited many times, that of the journalist Sylvia von Harden, whose real name was Sylvia Lehr (1894-1963), is one of the most fascinating. It offers a true synthesis of pictorial research which is part of what the critic Gustav Hartlaub designates as the โverist left wingโ of the Neue Sachlichkeit [New Objectivity]. The uncompromising representation of a human type through its attributes is expressed in the choice of an emancipated intellectual from the 1920s, with masculine appearance, smoking and drinking alone in a cafรฉ. […] The image of the journalist, whom Dix met at the Romanische Cafรฉ, a Berlin hotspot for the literary and artistic world, nevertheless remains ambiguous. In her memories published at the end of the 1950s, the journalist who emigrated to London affirms that Dix chose her for her appearance, representative of that era, but it seems that the artist also shows her cantilevered from to a type and a role in which she seems uncomfortable. Her nonchalant, but unnatural pose seems too ostentatious; her intellectual arrogance is thwarted by the image of her undone stockings; and her large red check sack dress contrasts with the pink Art Nouveau environment. This exposure seems to have escaped the model.
Angela Lampe. Extrait du catalogue Collection art moderne – La collection du Centre Pompidou, Musรฉe national dโart moderne , Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2007