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Women and Birds (French: Femmes et Oiseaux) is a 1963 painting by the Catalan artist Joan Miró. In February 2014 it was expected to be sold at auction for between $6.5m and $11.5m, but the auction was cancelled.
Woman with Parakeet (French: La Femme à la perruche) is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir created in 1871. It is in the holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the Thannhauser Collection. [1] The painting portrays model Lise Tréhot, who posed for Renoir in over twenty paintings during the years 1866 to 1872.
The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-67505-3. McGhie, Henry A (2017). Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology: Birds, Books and Business. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-1-78499-413-6. Noakes, Vivien (1986). Edward Lear, 1812–1888 ...
One of the most popular illustrators in Victorian Britain, she illustrated 27 books. Her greatest ornithological achievement was the second edition of her Birds from Nature (1868). Most of the illustrations were watercolours , with early paintings often including some ink work.
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Chief Lady Bird is known for her collaborative murals, digital illustrations, children's book illustrations, and contributions of Indigenous art to local spaces in Toronto. Her work can be found around Toronto including murals on Queen Street West, [ 5 ] Beverley and D'Arcy Street, [ 6 ] Ravina Gardens , [ 7 ] Withrow Public School, [ 8 ...
Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) is an oil on canvas painting by Joan Miró, created between 1966 and 1973. [1] It has been in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid, since 1988. The painting was finished on the day of the death of Picasso, and so Miró decided to dedicate it to him. [2]
In a letter addressed to the art critic Théophile Thoré-Burger, who saw the canvas exhibited in the Martinet Gallery, Millet explained: "I would like [in this painting] to imagine a brood of birds being fed by their mother. Man works to feed these beings”. [2] Millet sketched his models on the spot, but went back to his studio to paint.