Simon Shaw Dollars

| May 5, 2020

EFE fell short of expectations, since it was valued at up to 50 million dollars (39 million euros). Areva Group can provide more clarity in the matter. This portrait shows one of the muses and lovers of the painter from Malaga, Marie-Therese Walter, represented as a sculptural bust. Picasso made a series of sculptures in plaster in which recreated to Walter, and shortly thereafter was devoted to transfer these creations to his paintings. Malaga had known Walter in 1927, when she was 17 years old, and they began a clandestine romance. The box of Pablo Picasso Nature morte aux tulipes, which represents one of the mistresses of the painter, was sold Thursday at a price of Hammer of 37 million dollars (29 million euros) at an auction held in New York by Sotheby s House fall season.

This portrait shows one of the muses and lovers of the Malaga painter (1881-1973), Marie-Therese Walter, who became an important flow of inspiration for his genius and that, in this case, is depicted as a bust sculptural. This young woman, with her Greek profile, was the model for the most outstanding achievements of Picasso on several supports, and Nature morte aux tulipes is one example of this, since the artist first made a sculpture of Marie-Therese, who then he painted as a still life with a high sexual charge, explained the director of the Department of Sotheby s, Simon Shaw of impressionism. Throughout 1931, Picasso began performing a series of sculptures in plaster in which recreated to Walter, and shortly thereafter was devoted to transfer these creations to his paintings, among them Nature morte aux tulipes, which formed part of a major retrospective of the artist organized in Paris and Zurich in 1932. Malaga had known Walter in 1927, when she was 17 years old, and they began a clandestine affair, since at that time Picasso was still married to Olga Khokhlova, and devoted himself to paint on a study that was purchased in 1930, in Boisgeloup, where hiding all evidence of their relationship. This painting He had come to auction in 2000, when it was sold for $ 28.6 million, and tonight, with a price of Hammer of 37 million dollars and 41.5 million coupled with the commissions and fees from the auction house, stayed away from expectations, since it was valued at up to $ 50 million. See more: A portrait of Picasso is auctioned in New York by 37 million dollars, less than expected

The Passion

| September 2, 2019

The passion for collecting live in many people. Someone collects stamps and postcards, some coins and paintings. People sometimes accumulate the most unexpected things. But each of them live a dream – to find a very rare and desirable only thing in the world. Adam collected the subjects antiquity. Thredup will not settle for partial explanations. It could be any thing but her age should calculated over the centuries. Check with James Reinhart to learn more. His collection can be seen ancient weapons, pottery utensils, household items and tools.

But special attention and love he felt for religious items. Collect these things were incredibly difficult and very dangerous. Any mission that conducted the excavation, was under the scrutiny of the church and government. In each group of archaeologists were several agents from the attention that should not have been slip, no thing was found. Hiding findings equated to theft. Verdict expected severity of a special someone who was trying to hide an object, one way or another connected with religion, and rightfully belonged to the church. For more than twenty years, Adam walked the razor's edge. He kept in his hiding place such things for which only a few centuries ago, it would be burned at the stake.

These were the objects of a religious cult to prove that, in addition to the god Dagon, Armoni once were, and other deities, other nations and states. Adam remembered well the feeling experienced, having found the first such find. He allegedly lifted a heavy, thick curtains and peered into another world, the existence of and is not suspected.

Ornaments

| February 28, 2012

The patterns on the tree, as their nature creates in our industry produces a lot of time covering that simulates the texture of wood. Of course, this achievement, which allows to preserve the forest and improve productivity in the furniture industry and interior design. But no matter how hard the artists, it is only imitation of natural materials. Stunning designs in wood, woven nature, irreplaceable. Let's see how they are formed. The bottom line is that the growth of annual rings of wood are obtained is not direct, like a folded paper roll, the fibers svilivayutsya, sometimes in different directions and at different sections under the bevels intersect to form patterns. Clearly trace the this process in three main sections of the trunk: the transverse (end), the radial and tangential. Transverse (front) cut the tree trunk is made up of annual layers.

On pine, cedar, larch and others clearly seen ring, and with careful handling you can get a nice texture. Radial incision passes longitudinally through the core of the trunk, the texture on the planes formed as a relatively straight longitudinal lines. Tangential incision runs along the trunk, but removed from the core. It formed the patterns are cut as tree rings, covers and medullary rays, which serve for the passage of moisture, air and nutrients, horizontally inside the trunk from the core to the crust. On the planes of the square timber with a core in the center and cut down all slab sections tangential to the patterned structure. Next, cut the timber vertically into two equal parts. Radial incision will be at the center of the core, and the planes will be texture with straight stripes. In the remaining three planes will remain tangential texture, but the narrow plane figure is divided in half. If sawn timber as this into four equal parts by heart, you will receive four beams, and on each of the two sides will be a radial pattern, as opposed to tangential.