Christie s to offer rediscovered pastel by Eugene Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix, Arab Hunting a Lion. 250,000-350,000. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
PARIS
.-Christies announced the top lot of the Old Master and 19th Century Drawings auction (24 March 2021), an important rediscovered pastel by celebrated romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, an Orientalist drawing which reappears on the market after having belonged to the painter Edgar Degas, estimated at 250,000-350,000.
The artists trip to North Africa in 1832 made a lasting impression on Delacroix for the rest of his career, as shown by this important pastel made in the last decades of his life, and which has come down to us in very good condition. A painting of the same composition kept in the former collection of the British painter Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987), recently at the sale Christies, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 72, can be accurately dated thanks to the Journal of Delacroix (L. Johnson, The Paintings of Eugène D
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Enslaved people in South Carolina in the process of being freed by the federal government around 1862. Abby Fisher was born and raised on a South Carolina plantation, but after gaining her freedom, found success in San Francisco.
(Henry P. Moore)
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nce Abby Fisher had made a name for herself in 1870s San Francisco, the award-winning Southern chef and businesswoman was bombarded with requests for her recipes. Fisher was more than happy to share over three decades of cookery know-how with her fans. But because Fisher was born enslaved and raised on a South Carolina plantation, she never had access to a formal education; she could neither read nor write.
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0358
Introduction
The total length of the Roman Empire’s highway network is not known, but can be estimated at well above 100,000 kilometers. Some roads were surveyed and built from scratch, others created by upgrading pre-existing routes. The bibliography on the subject is correspondingly vast, running into thousands of titles. Most published studies are focused on the remains of the roads as preserved in the landscape, taking a morphological approach and identifying or dating roads on the basis of their alignment and construction. Some more recent studies, however, take a contextual approach (“dots on the map”), identifying and dating ancient roads from their relation to known and datable features such as settlement sites, necropoleis, or forts. Within ancient history generally, focus has shifted from the construction and administration of roads or their use for military campaigns to a wider consideration of their place in the economic life of
Brill Gallery exhibits vintage and later silver prints of Magnum photographer Leonard Freed
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Baltimore, 1964. © Leonard Freed/Magnum.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS
.-Brill Gallery is presenting the Signed Vintage and Later Silver Prints of Magnum Photographer Leonard Freed that appear in his book: Black in White America. In celebration of Black History Month.
Original Edition 1967/68, Published by Britton. Republished by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2010, 208 pages. From the Foreword by Brett Abbott, Department of Photographs:
While working in Germany in 1962, photographer Leonard Freed (American, 1923-2006) noticed a black American soldier guarding the divide between East and West as the Berlin wall was being erected. It was not the partition between the forces of communism and capitalism that captured Freeds imagination, however. Instead what haunted him was the idea of a man standing in defense of a country in which his own rights were in question.
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