Showing posts with label portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portrait. Show all posts

Friday, December 23, 2011

Monday, December 5, 2011

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Study for Head of George Dyer




Study for head of George Dyer, Francis Bacon, 1967
Sotheby's employees pose with Francis Bacon's painting Study for Head of George Dyer at Sotheby's auction house in London May 21, 2008.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Wanted


Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, 1951 (oil on copper) Wanted poster designed by Lucian Freud in 2001. The portrait was stolen from an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1998, sometime between 11 AM and 3 PM, May 27, and disappeared without a trace.


"Posters beg Berliners to bring back the Bacon" , The Guardian, June 22, 2001

"Bringing home the Bacon" , The Guardian, June 23, 2001

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Unidentified Man


Unidentified Man, daguerreotype, produced by Mathew Brady's studio [between 1844 and 1860]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-109984

Friday, April 30, 2010

Andrew Jackson Downing (Totally Obscured)


Andrew Jackson Downing, image totally obscured, daguerreotype, produced by Mathew Brady's studio [between 1851 and 1852].

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Unidentified Man, Head-and-Shoulders Portrait, Facing Front


Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, daguerreotype, produced by Mathew Brady's studio [between 1844 and 1860]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-110112

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Unidentified Woman, Arm Resting on Table


Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, with arm resting on table, daguerreotype, produced by Mathew Brady's studio [between 1850 and 1860]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-110018

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Unidentified Young Woman


Unidentified young woman, ca 1850, daguerreotype, from George Eastman House Collection