Self Portrait - Fernando Leal Audirac (1976) oil on linen (www.leal-audirac.com)
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Taken from the wiki page on the tragedy itself - “Through inept navigation by her captain, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, who had been given command after the Bourbon Restoration for political reasons and even though he had hardly sailed in 20 years, Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of present-day Mauritania and...
Artist’s FineArtAmerica Page
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore....
Part of a series of 10 portraits, a commissioned series for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget. The Salpêtrière asylum in Paris was like other institutions at the time, nowhere near the level of insight and care provided by modern mental health services. A history of mental illness in the artist’s own family likely made...
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Aside...
‘Look at the detail in this painting: the upholstery so carefully and sensitively realised; the window strap that is clearly made of leather and not some artificial material; the window fittings and the striped draught strips. The interior of the railway compartment is so beautifully drawn, with such clarity, that it is not...