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United Kingdom
Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 11 W x 9.3 H x 0.1 D in
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After Edgar Degas’ 'La Sortie de Pesage, 19th Century. Part of my Lost Art Collection. This small watercolour after the original by Degas captures the excitement evident before the start of a horse race. The jockeys on their rides are led up to the course with spectators looking on in anticipation. We sense that other races are already ongoing in this atmosepheric piece. The original was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA in 1990 and never recovered. By Oliver Toovey, watercolour, 2020. In a frame 12.4 x 10.6 inches (see photo) The Lost Art Collection With this collection, I have sought to recreate, to the limit of my ability, works of great art that can no longer be enjoyed by humanity as they were stolen and never (as yet) recovered. I’ve used modern, not contemporary, materials and sizes are close but not identical to the originals, with a recreation of the artist’s signatures along with mine to ensure they wouldn’t be passed off as forgeries. I’ve learnt a great deal about the techniques employed by these old masters during this project, but invariably my own technique creeps in too. As I’ve by definition not been able to work from the originals, I’ve worked from photographs. Some of these only exist in black-and-white and therefore these works incorporate my own ideas regarding colours, as well as research into what is known about the works and copies that exist. The differences will clearly extend beyond how closely I’ve replicated the artwork in terms of image and colour, into aspects of how the paint was applied to the canvas, the aging it would have gone through and conservation efforts over the years. This wasn’t about necessarily recreating perfectly what the artwork would look like if found today but closer to when it was originally created. My goal was to try and bring some of these artworks back to life to allow appreciation beyond just a black and white photograph. I feel like a key strategy in increasing the likelihood of eventual recovery of these works is keeping them in the public consciousness and I hope this project can aid that in a small way.
Original Created:2020
Subjects:People
Materials:Paper
Styles:ImpressionismFine Art
Mediums:WatercolorPencil
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11 W x 9.3 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Black
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:United Kingdom.
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I am a self-taught artist specialising in oils. I first started painting in 2012 and generally painted whatever caught my interest. This has in the last few years narrowed down to focus on figurative art, with themes of lost artwork, Don Quixote, historical paintings and portraiture. Looking forward to presenting my next collection in late 2020/early 2021 - "Lost Art".
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