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In the UK, found just four of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Oil painting depicting the artist's mistress Jane Morris (estimate of 1-1.5 million pounds) will be sold in May at Christie's, and three drawings in ink will go under the hammer at auction this Thursday at the Duke's Auctioneers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
glorification of Beatrice. 1869
Source: British newspaper The Telegraph reports that in a private collection in Scotland, was discovered a previously unknown anywhere else, and art historians had not mentioned the popular portrait by British artist Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Dante Gabriel Rossetti). The painting was painted in 1869 and depicts his muse Jane Morris (Jane Morris), wife of the artist and designer William Morris (William Morris).

favorite artist and his model subsequently introduced in 1857 when Rossetti was already engaged to Elizabeth Siddel (Elizabeth Siddall), and Jane was married to Morris. However, after the tragic death of Siddel in 1862, and cracks, running between the spouses Morris, the relationship between Rossetti and Jane resumed. It is believed that the lovers are reunited in 1869, but their relationship is difficult to follow chronologically, as they have destroyed all the letters written to each other.

portrait is called "The glorification of Beatrice," and relates his beloved Rossetti Dante with his beloved, the object of his platonic sense of the sublime. Go to the wall in the upper left corner of the portrait attached sheet with the text of the sonnet of Dante, glorifies the sublime love.

While Rossetti's auction record of 2.6 million pounds - as much in 2000 to pay for pastel 1869 featuring Jane Morris called "Pandora" Australian collector John Schaeffer (John Schaeffer). Later, in 2004, Schaeffer sold the picture for 1.7 million pounds. Portrait found in Scotland, will be sold in May at Christie's, it is estimated at 1-1.5 million pounds.

However, these findings of work in the UK Rossetti did not stop. Almost simultaneously with the "glorification of Beatrice" in Hampshire found three previously unknown figure of the artist, one of which is shown as Jane Morris.

The character drawing is the second found by artist Mary Spartan Stillman (Marie Spartali Stillman ), which is Rossetti is also depicted in the image of his beloved Boccaccio in his canvas "Fiametta Vision", one of the most famous of his works.

Drawings made with pen and ink, in 1905, were presented to his brother Artist William Ritchie, Miss Effie (Effie Ritchie), daughter of Stillman, and has since transferred to the family from generation to generation. The works put up for auction this Thursday at Dorchester at the auction house Duke's auctioneers, they have previously estimated at 20 thousand pounds.

The earliest drawings called "Meet the ladies of the XVIII century," it depicts Women with fans, shake hands. The second pattern is called "Combing": its heroine is just believe Spartan Mary Stillman. The third picture shows Jane Morris in the image of the goddess of love and is called the "Venus with a pair of doves." The drawings, created between 1849 and 1970, allows us to trace the evolution of the style of Rossetti, and their characters - Jane Morris and Mary Stillman Spartan - a woman who played a key role in the history of Pre-Raphaelite movement in the UK.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artinvestment.ru


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