Goodbye July - Month of many fruits

Still life with fruits and flowers - Jacob van Hulsdonck 1582-1647

And another one by the same artist, there is something so straight forward 

and honest about his paintings:

Still life in a decorated bowl

 From Flemish to Danish some decades later:

 Girl with fruits in a basket 1827 - Constantin Hansen ( 1804 - 1880)

And some years later in another country, this painting was done :

 Fruits in an Italian landscape - Christine Loevmand (1803-1872)

Danish female artist

Back to girls and fruits, this time in Russia, late 19th century;

 Girl with peaches - 1887 Valentin Serov  (1865-1911)

And back again to Denmark, and the year of 1827

 

 

Antique drawing of fruits 1927 - Charlotte Schaldemose

Danish female artist. 

The work is for sale at Buelow Fine Art Gallery on Ebay

A time for toads

 Giant toad in Japanese print

19th century f´drawing of a toad with horns

Many frogs belong to the group called toads. Toads are the plumb, warty ones. 

They are all frogs - but "true frogs" are  members of the family Ranidae, containing more than 400 species. 

"True toads" are members of the family Bufonidae, containing more than 300 species. 

 Here they live

Antique print c 1850

Two puppies and a frog - William Henry Trood (1848.1899)

Toads Tea Party
Beatrix Potter (1866.1943)

Danish ceramics by Ipsen

 

I think this little fella is a frog

This is to you, Mette

 

 Look at his little hands - 

the big ones belong to my husband

Rainy weather

Has it stopped raining? - 1922 L A Ring (1854-1933) 

Summer clouds - in Nordic paintings

The Cloud 1896 Prins Eugen (1865-1947)

Sweden

 Summer landscape - Andreas Fritz (1828-1906)

(sold at Bruun Rasmussen Auktionhouse 2011)

 Denmark

Lake Keitele - Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)

Finland

  

 Summer Night  1886 - Eilif Petersen (1852-1928)

Norway

 Despair 1893-94 - Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

 Norway

Lucian Freud, born 1922 in Berlin - died 2011 in London

The artist Lucian Michael Freud died yesterday, July 21. He was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. 

This was how it looked like:

Unter den Linden 1922 - Lovis Corinth (1858-1925)

Strasse in Berlin 1922 - George Grosz (1893-1959)

Hochbahnhof Buelowstrasse 1922 - Lesser Ury (1861-1931)

The family moved to London, England in 1933

Fuel stock, River Thames 1933 - Photo

Lucian Freud had his first solo exhibition in 1944:

The painter's room 1944 - Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

This was how London looked liked:

Evening in the City of London 1944 - David Bomberg (1890-1957)

Oat Fields in paintings - in France and Scandinavia

Oat Field Grez - Karl Nordstroem (1855-1923)

From one the artist's stay in France at Grez-sur-Loing, where many Scandinavian artists gathered

 Oat Field Lyroen 1887

Back in Sweden on the small island at the Swedish westcoast

Oatfield near Vejby  1843 - P C Skovgaard (1817-1875)

Danish field - it looks like rain

Back to sunny France

Oat Field - Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oat Field with Cypress - Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

July is the month of Poppies

Lupin and poppies - Nicolaus Woehlk (1887-1950)

German artist born i Husum, Northern Germany - border country -  died in Aabenraa, Denmark

In 1926 he moved to Aabenraa, the town was German (Apenrade) from 1864-1920. 

Another fellow artist from the same region:

Big poppies 1942 - Emil Nolde ( 1867-1956)

born Hans Emil Hansen in the Danish village Nolde, near the Danish-German border

An artist with Danish relations:

Flower basket 1884  - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

He was married to the Danish Mette Gad, and for a period lived in Copenhagen with his family

 

Young girl among poppies - Anna Ancher (1859-1935)

Danish female artist married to painter Michael Ancher

Poppies and white butterflies  - Olaf August Hermansen (1849-1897)

Rubarbs and poppies 1901 - Anthonore Christensen (1849-1926)

Danish female artist - the queen of poppy paintings

Poppies on a mossy bank 1874 Anthonore Christensen

born Anthonie Eleonore Tscherning

Large antique painting of poppies

for sale on Ebay from Buelow Fine Art Gallery

An unusual work with pink poppies

A time for ice cream

Farm boys eating ice-cream cones. Washington, Indiana 1941

From a blog: Animals eating ice cream

From a blog: Ice cream cones

Girl eating ice cream

Fernando Bottero (1932)

Ice cream Moose 2009 - Zoe Piel

Giolitti in Rome

when in Rome go to the Giolitti for ice cream

 Berthillon in Paris - when in Paris go to Ile Saint-Louis. 

Le Salon de The is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Not good when you are a Tuesday-ice-cream-eater like me!