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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 1d

Renson sale, 1924, lot 53: Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), "Young girl with flowers at her ear" (48000Fr), 43*35 cm. The most expensive lot by far. Dating to 1898, the painting is now in a private collection. art-renoir.com/artworks_ren...

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/10
The Pale Man – Pan’s Labyrinth

Terry Oldfield feat. Mike Oldfield - Dancer In The Void
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdJ...

Beautiful guitars and Pan (!) flute by the brothers, over some very mediocre synths. This could have been so much better...

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 1d

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 1d

Daily picture from the Museum Mayer van den Bergh: Master of the Legend of Saint Lucia (workshop, copy after a lost Dirk Bouts), "Virgin and Child", c. 1510, 39*28cm. Weird reflections not in original, just in my photo.

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 2d

Renson sale, 1924, lot 52: another Monticelli, "Pastorale" (panel, 44*25cm, sold for 8000 Fr). No image or date. Impossible to retrace.

Tomorrow the most expensive piece of the auction!

Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant pseudonym ;-)

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/9
Vampire Gang - Near Dark

Channel Zero - Suck My Energy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCn0...

Belgian metal heroes.

"vampires are lucky, they feed on others
we've gotta feed on ourselves"

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 2d

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 2d

Daily photo from my visit to the Museum Mayer van den Bergh: "Nativity", c. 1510, anonymous (former attributions: Van Orley and even Petrus Christus!), 71*59cm. I don't know any other paintings which might be from the same hand, really peculiar.

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 2d

Google Lens lomt nu heel zelfverzekerd met foute titels en/of artiesten. Dit werk is volgens AI: "De kunstenaar van dit schilderij is Salomon Leonardus Verveer.

De informatie is afgeleid van de handtekening "S.V. 1825" op de afbeelding.
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Verveer, landschapsschilder, was toen 12 jaar oud...

Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

Fair enough.

Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

Just learned through @artherstory.bsky.social that the Met will exhibit "Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck". I have recently seen a few of her works in Finland, and am quite certain that this will be a treat for many of you. Great artist! www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is the first major U.S. exhibition of Helene Schjerfbeck, featuring 60 works that highlight her unique voice in modernism.

www.metmuseum.org

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

There's also an exposition about Marthe Donas ("Donas, Archipenko & La Section d'Or") at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp, opened a few days ago. kmska.be/nl/donas-arc...

Donas, Archipenko & La Section d'Or. Betoverend modernisme

kmska.be

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

Makes me curious: would your library ever consider swapping such doubles with another library to enrich both collections? I know many incunables have minor differences in one print run, but do these outweigh e.g. acquiring a local title you are still missing completely?

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

Renson sale, 1924, lot 51: Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), "Young women and greyhounds" (10000Fr), 20*30cm (small panel). Typical example (making it harder to search), and I can't find further traces of it. Popular but not my taste.

Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

Ooooh, I've never had such a nice compliment, why thank you! Cranach can have the same serial effect, though better of course. Sometimes it seems that every museum has the same two Cranachs :-)

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/8
Button Mother – Coraline

The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu3F...

"World, the time has come to (push the button!)"

Probably the second most obvious choice after "The Hardest Button to Button"...

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

"And the winner is... Donald... T... usk!" Met een live cam gericht op Trumps gezicht natuurlijk.

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

More or less daily image from my visit to the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp: Master of the Female Half Figures, "Mary Magdalen", first half of the 16th c. The Master is a prime example of the highly specialized serial production of very similar good but not outstanding works for the market.

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 3d

Love, hate, lunacy, submission, and hunger. Sounds like one good day and the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 4d

As expected, no time to visit the "regular" Bruges museums, closing at 5. But the cathedral was open till 6 (mainly dark baroque paintings), and in its treasury is a quite good collection of 15th c. paintings. Will show some of them in a few months time, here some teasers...

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 4d

Probably no time for more posts today, work to do, but the view compensates a lot. Won´t be able to do any museums probably though...

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 5d

Renson sale, 1924, lot 50: Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), "Resting miners", 1887, 88*70cm. Unsold or withdrawn. Meunier was best known as a sculptor but also made many social realist paintings. I can find no later trace of this work.

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 5d

"Joseph Knight (1829-1907), drama critic and author of some 375 entries in the Dictionary of National Biography. He devoted his leisure to literature, collecting and reading, firstly in Leeds and then in London, where he lived at 27 Camden Square. " Text from www.georgebayntun.com/antiquarian-...

Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Patauini ... Petrarcha Redivivus, TOMASINI (Giacomo Filippo). — George Bayntun

JOSEPH KNIGHT'S COPY Iacobi Philippi Tomasini Patauini ... Petrarcha Redivivus, Integram Poetæ celeberrimi Vitam Iconibus ære celatis exhibens. Accessit Nobilissimæ Foeminae Lauræ Brevis Historia....

www.georgebayntun.com

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