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Adriaen Coorte

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The Dutch Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707) is one of these refined, delicate painters who was unfairly forgotten and confined to anonymity. Intimate and honest, he painted constantly still-life, asparagus bunches, sea shells, fruit bowls of small, even tiny format. It is said that he worked onto old paper sheets from books of account, subsequently gluing these papers to some cardboard or some wood board. We realise Coorte was a modest artist, always true to himself.

Quentin De La Tour

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I was always intrigued by both the self-assurance and the kindness of the painter Maurice Quentin De La Tour (1704-1788) shown in the self-portrait made in the fullest expression of his fame also showing astonishing technical skills. Admiring that smile and the elegant blue coat it is difficult to think of the sad end of this French artist, one of the best painters, he was a much prominent figure in the Rococo period. The last years he stayed representing got mad and lived in seclusion.De La Tour was one of the greatest pastel painters with a much delicate technique which requires specific paper or boards with the adding of a fixative to avoid the colours to peel. All these problems can be solved using materials produced nowadays. In the past, the…

Domenico Gnoli

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The untimely passing of Domenico Gnoli (1933-1970) has left all of us with “our mouths watering”. Nobody knows how far he could have reached this much original and refined Italian artist, pen-named “the golden boy” by the mass media. Painter, designer, stage designer, able to find the beauty in a button, a lapel or a collar. The subjects of his paintings could be considered as pop- art, but as Gnoli was so elegant, classic and with a metaphysic touch he became also unique, a rare human being of the Italian art in the 20th century, just as Morandi or De Chirico, personal, innovative and, as the same time, attached to the sense of tradition.

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