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Some more. This one has an interesting story...
....it's by William Orpen. He was employed as a war artist during WW1. He painted this portrait of his lover, and got into trouble for doing private work whilst employed by the Ministry of Defense as a war artist. He was to be court martialed. A powerful friend, Lord Beaverbrook, got him out of this. In gratitude, Orpen painted an exact copy of this painting and gave it to Beaverbrook as a gift. Over time the Beaverbrook painting became the 'original' of this art work, and the actual original came to be considered as a fake or a copy by another artist. Years later the 'fake' was sold at an auction, the person who bought it liked it and didn't care if it was a fake. More years passed and the nephew of the purchaser took it to the Antiques Roadshow still believing it to be a fake, but wondering if it was worth anything...
...after much investigation, the experts uncovered the story of these paintings, and the 'fake' was accepted as the original Orpen artwork...and valued at £250,000.
I like the painting very much.
Above...painting by Dene Croft.
Above...Lauren Brevner...I like the style of this.
....it's by William Orpen. He was employed as a war artist during WW1. He painted this portrait of his lover, and got into trouble for doing private work whilst employed by the Ministry of Defense as a war artist. He was to be court martialed. A powerful friend, Lord Beaverbrook, got him out of this. In gratitude, Orpen painted an exact copy of this painting and gave it to Beaverbrook as a gift. Over time the Beaverbrook painting became the 'original' of this art work, and the actual original came to be considered as a fake or a copy by another artist. Years later the 'fake' was sold at an auction, the person who bought it liked it and didn't care if it was a fake. More years passed and the nephew of the purchaser took it to the Antiques Roadshow still believing it to be a fake, but wondering if it was worth anything...
...after much investigation, the experts uncovered the story of these paintings, and the 'fake' was accepted as the original Orpen artwork...and valued at £250,000.
I like the painting very much.
Above...painting by Dene Croft.
Above...Lauren Brevner...I like the style of this.
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The story of the Orpen proves once again that, to quote Groucho Marx, "military intelligence is a contradiction in terms"; the hand of bureaucracy is always dead. I remember the programme in which the portrait featured - the expert, unlike so many in the art world, really IS an expert.
The most recent painting up above - is just a beautiful piece of work; not a particularly useful record of individual features (though we do have photographs for that) but the attitude of the figures, and the colours, add up to a quite remarkable study.
There seems to be a lot more work made using odd colours all over the place...like the one below (by David Walker).
