Alexis (Alix) Marquet (1875-1939) - Bronze - Nude Girl with A Rose

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The small (just under twelve inches) Alix Marquet (1875-1939) female nude bronze arrived from Germany on Saturday. The first thing I noticed when I picked her up was that she was one solid and somewhat top heavy bronze. She has some condition problems, which I hope can be corrected. Her patina is mostly intact with some minor scrapes and wear spots but it is a lovely dark chocolate brown. I believe the damage to her legs is a result of being somewhat top heavy and may have resulted from someone dropping her. Oh well, she had an acceptable low price for the quality of the casting and after I get the other bronze back from Masterworks Studios I will send her off and let John Ward work his magic on her. She is rare and unique when it comes to nudes. You just do not find pre-adolescent female nudes that often. Alix Marquet has sculptures in some major museums around the world so I am happy to have her in my collection.
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Monogrammist "L.C" ......19th Century French Sanguine Drawings From The Antique - Dated 1802

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A seller on eBay France listed this nice series of sanguine drawings from the antique this morning. They are not large drawings, slightly larger than a legal sized piece of paper, but the seller has listed them for prices that I honestly believe will never find a buyer. They are monogrammed "L.C." and dated 1802. For the life of me I cannot figure out why a seller would be asking over three hundred and fifty euros each for these drawings. Value depends upon many things, subject matter (nude boys bring the most, followed by male nudes, and at the low end are female nudes; if you own a pre-adolescent female nude of good quality, you can name your own price, they are just that rare), medium, condition, age, and an identifiable, listed artist. These drawings are nicely executed but certainly not worth the equivalent of four hundred fifty dollars each. At that price, the seller will have them long enough to love them even more than he does now or he may be forced to lower those outrageous prices quite a bit. The market will find their value quite quickly and it is definitely not what he is asking. I suspect the seller has no experience in the market and simply pricing them according to the age and some dream in his or her head. I found two nice early male nudes recently on eBay France and made the seller a discounted offer on both. He came back saying he had twenty watchers and had been offered about twenty euros more than my offer. A few minutes ago I noticed they had not sold and he has re listed them at twenty euros less than my offer. Watchers are just that most of the time....... simply watching. A real serious buyer will have programmed an automatic bid on a bidding site like bidnapper and you won't see him before seven or eight seconds before the auction ends. That's called "lurking." You will never know he's there until you see his winning bid. Buying the work of art is his purpose, not driving the price up with an open bidding war. Dreams are funny things when they run up against market realities, they tend to burst like bubbles.

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Friedrich Kaspar Heising (1821-1902): Academic Male Nude Painting, dated 1841

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Addendum (March 8): I am happy to say that this beautiful 19th century academic male nude study will be on its way into my collection very soon. The seller and I have been negotiating the sale and export of the painting for many days now and have finally settled on a price and a way to get it to me. For a while there I thought it would slip through my fingers.

This beautiful academic nude turned up on a European auction site this morning. Friedrick Kasper (Casper) Leising (1821-1901) was a well known painter during the mid to late 19th century. Unfortunately I could not find much in the way of biographic information but this is a very nice example of 19th century academic art.

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Here is an exampkle of his mature works:

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Karl Jobst (1835-1907): Male Nude Drawing, Ca. 1900

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This beautiful male nude drawing by Austrian painter and watercolorist Karl Jobst (1835-1907) appeared on one of the eBay auction sites this morning. Jobst was a well known historical-genre painter in Vienna at the end of the 19th century. He and his brother, Franz Jobst (1840-1890), owned a well known and famous atelier specializing in architectural and commercial commissions. What caught my eye was that heroic pose, which reminds me of Sargent's male nudes.

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Here is just a small sampling of his works:

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Unknown 18th-19th Century Artist: Male Nude Posed As A Roman Soldier

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This nicely executed 18th-19th century drawing appeared on eBay France this morning. Unfortunately, it is not signed nor dated and most probably is a study for a religious painting.

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Unknown 19th Century German Artist: Nude Ephebe With Flute (Nude Boy With Flute)

The 19th century drawing of the nude ephebe holding the flute arrived yesterday. What was supposed to be two drawings turned out to be a double-sided drawing on one piece of paper. The female nude on the reverse side is somewhat problematic in its execution and the paper required some repair on that side, so I had to choose one of them to apply linen archival tape to and the nude ephebe won the battle since the image was not affected. The paper is somewhat fragile and, god-forbid, someone used scotch tape to apply the paper to an obviously acidic mat. That is definitely a very big no-no in the preservation of 19th century paper. Fortunately it does not impinge on the male nude but did effect the drawing on the back. You win some and you lose some. I scanned both drawings for you below.
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Margarete Schneider-Reichel (1891-1944): Loving Couple (ca. 1930)

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This nice painting popped up on the European auction scene recently. Margarete Schneider-Reichel (1891-1944) was a German painter known for her children's book illustrations.

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Max Bohac (?): Lovers - Nudes in Landscape

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Auction Vltavin, Prague, CZ has just listed this early 20th century work by Max Bohac (?), a Czech artist who was active during the first half of the 20th century, titled Lovers. Unfortunately, I have found scant biographic information on him to pass along. The activity depicted in the painting could have been a recruiting poster for that pre-World War II Czech government program encouraging young people to buy land before the Germans bought it all up or just marched in and took it. I believe the program was called: "Get lots while you're young." I know, I'm bad. That's an old Benny Hill joke. Enjoy.

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Unknown 19th Century Artist: Young Faun with Goat

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Siebers Auktionen, Stuttgart, DE. has listed this fun work in their current auction catalog. Unfortunately, it is not signed but dates from the latter part of the 19th century. It has some condition problems which, with a little bit of money, could be easily corrected. Still, a very playful painting.

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