Originally this piece was called “Love and Pain”. It was only later that it picked up the name “Vampire” and interpretation of a man locked in a vampire’s embrace. Munch maintained it was nothing more than a woman kissing a man on the neck....
In 1911, when he was 35 years old, Lesage claimed he heard a voice speak to him from the darkness of the mine and tell him, “One day you will be a painter”....
Edwin Booth was a famous actor and the brother of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln. In an incident likely in 1864-5 (as recalled by the younger Lincoln) Edwin rescued Lincoln’s son Robert from falling under a train at a station in New Jersey. Robert recognised the man who saved him, but only later did Edwin...
From Christchurch gallery site - “This work by Rita Angus has come to symbolise the hard-edged clarity of the Canterbury school of landscape painting. It was made following the artist’s ten-day visit to the remote high country railway settlement of Cass in 1936 with painters Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell. The...