On Melrose
Los Angeles
May 7th, 2019
Comics_Wall_Art
Category: Los Angeles
Flamboyant
Attracting attention is a must in the city of stars
Petersen Automotive Museum, on Wilshire Blvd
May 7th, 2019
Urban Light
An assemblage sculpture of 202 vintage street light lampposts from the 1920s and 1930s, created by Chris Burden with the express intention to be placed in the empty plaza in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on Wilshire Boulevard. The cast iron lampposts range from 20 to 30 feet in height and were salvaged from Los Angeles neighborhoods. The installation is lit up from dusk to dawn and is solar-powered. Especially popular after dark, be prepared to drive a few rounds before finding a parking spot close enough.
Urban Light by Chris Burden, 2008.
LACMA, L.A.
May 7th, 2019
The fabulous geometry of art
And a pleasant surprise, as we wandered through the galleries of LACMA, those ones that remained open during the museum’s extensive renovation and expansion. The surprise was finding out that Magritte’s ”Ceci n’est pas une pipe” belongs to LACMA; for some reason, I was convinced it would belong to the permanent collection of the Magritte Museum in Brussels. What a fittingly surreal connection between my two favourite cities in the world!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
May 7th, 2019
Drinks and England
And an adorable little dumpling
LACMA, L.A.
May 7th, 2019
Etude in Black,
Back in L.A. (because once was never going to be enough) and, since we were staying in Pasadena, we had to go see THAT house from the Columbo 1972 episode, featuring John Cassavetes, Myrna Loy and Blythe Danner.
1365 South Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, CA
May 7th, 2019
I am my phone
Truth_be_told
July 18th, 2017
I had a Mini Meltdown
Upon realizing it was time to leave L.A. My Californication had been an utter success – so much so, I was already plotting my way back. 
Seriously though, I had a mini-crisis upon learning that Meltdown Comics, an L.A. landmark for the past 25 years, would close its doors forever on April 1st, 2018. What a chance to have made it there just in time!
July 18th, 2017
Getty & The Ladies
The rare instance of being a voracious womanizer who “could hardly ever say ‘no’ to a woman, or ‘yes’ to a man”, could momentarily be overlooked.
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Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, 1866
James Tissot (1836-1902)
Oil on canvas
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Jeanne (Spring), 1881
Édouard Manet (1832-1883)
Oil on canvas
Depicting young actress Jeanne Demarsy as the fashionable embodiment of spring, this portrait was part of an unfinished series of the seasons that Manet undertook at the end of his life.
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Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer, 1885
Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
Oil on canvas
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Portrait of Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, 1843
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873)
Oil on canvas
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Mischief and Repose (1895)
John William Godward (1861-1922)
Oil on canvas
July 18th, 2017
Nude || Not || Naked
Celebrating the human body (but the artist’s daughters seem less than impressed).
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Nude Study of an Indian Man, about 1878-79
Émile-Jules Pichot (1857-1936)
Charcoal and powdered vine charcoal with stumping and lifting
Little is known of Pichot, to whose talents as a draftsman this sheet attests. The drawing’s date, however, can be determined with some precision, for the same gaunt, bearded model (possibly a Hindu ascetic or a Sikh) appears in a drawing by Georges Seurat, a contemporary of Pichot and destined for greatness.
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Standing Male Nude, 1866
Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914)
Charcoal with black chalk
This accomplished nude study executed when the artist was nineteen years old, predicted a bright future for Ferrier in the official art world. Largely forgotten today, he won the French Academy’s prestigious Rome Prize in 1872 and later received prominent commissions, including decorations for the Gare d’Orsay train station (today the Musée d”Orsay).
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Adolescent I, about 1891
George Minne (1866-1941)
Marble
This nude, emaciated youth defiantly exposes his body while simultaneously crossing his arms in a protective embrace, indicating shame and anguish. Minne was one of the major representatives of a circle of Symbolist artists and writers based in Ghent, Belgium.
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Dancer, 1912
Paolo Troubetzkoy (1866-1938)
Bronze
Countess Thamara Swirskaya (Saint Petersburg, 1890-Los Angeles, 1961), the famous Russian pianist and dancer depicted here, performed throughout Europe and the United States. J. Paul Getty, who purchased this piece in 1933, may have attended one of her shows in the U.S. She posed for this lively composition in 1909 in Paris, where Troubetzkoy, the son of a Russian prince and American mother, lived between 1905 and 1914.
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Double Portrait of the Artist’s Daughters, 1889
Adolf von Hildebrand (1847-1921)
Polychrome terracotta
Freestanding double-portrait busts are rare in European sculpture, and this is one of the few known examples. Hildebrand’s termination of the figures above the waist and his use of subtle colours are based on Italian Renaissance portraiture. This sensitive portrayal of the artist’s daughters, Silvia and Bertel, is remarkable among the sculptor’s normally restrained official portraits and monuments.
July 18th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 