EXPENSIVE (FOR ME) LARGE NUDE PAINTING - HELP w/ARTIST'S NAME?

Discussion in 'Art' started by journeymagazine, Mar 29, 2019.

  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Got this today out of a storage unit full of paintings & antiques - the guy was moving and selling everything by Monday (he gave me a couple of steamer ship prints + a 1/2 dozen frames for free trying to empty place).
    I bought this for $150 - thoughts?
    Also, if anyone can tell me artist's name (and hopefully that he's known!_, it would be greatly appreciated..
    Thanks
    PS - The painting itself measures 30" x 23" - The signature has a date that looks like 03 or 93 - or possibly 43(?) which is the era the woman looks like she's from to me.
    PSS - I also got this cool 4" x 3" miniature hand painted stone? tile? of a old woman for only $20 - I've seen those sell for a lot, but it's not signed?
    Thanks again!

    AA ART PAINTING NUDE RED HEAD 1AA.JPG AA ART PAINTING NUDE RED HEAD 2AA.JPG AA ART PAINTING NUDE RED HEAD 4AA.JPG

    aa art painting MINIATURE PAINTING OLD WOMAN 1A.JPG AA ART PAINTING MINIATURE PAINTING OLD WOMAN 2AA.JPG AA ART PAINTING MINIATURE PAINTING OLD WOMAN 3AA.JPG
     
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  2. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    They're both quite beautiful, I'd have wanted to buy them too! :cat:
     
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  3. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

  4. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    I'm sorry, I have to chuckle just a tiny bit when I say 'men and their nudes' (in jest), BUT I also have to say her face looks SO familiar and I DON'T KNOW WHY!!!!! Is she an actress....would anyone know?????
     
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  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    It's OK, he's got a priest he can confess to right along with her!
     
  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Great posture, but sure hope she didn't have to hold that pose for long at a time. At least her knees didn't get cold.
     
  7. rink28

    rink28 Well-Known Member

    The nude painting is by an unknown artist you will be lucky to get your money back on that. The second looks to be a lithograph of a painting.
     
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  8. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    It's Fra Bartolomeo's Savonarola. I wasn't kidding. :)
     
  9. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    That IS Savanarola! Wonder why not signed>
    Any idea of it's age?
     
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  10. rink28

    rink28 Well-Known Member

    You should make sure you look up the artist before you fork out 150.00 and just hoping it's by a well known artist. Unless your planning on keeping it.
     
  11. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Barbie.
     
  12. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    It looks like a painting with a magnifying glass - but I'm going to look again tomorrow in daylight!
     
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  13. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    And she does look like an early Barbie! lol
     
  14. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    It is Savonarola; it's not the Fra Bartolomeo painting, looooong out of copyright.
     
  15. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Nudes bt known or unknown artist do very well on eBay - I'll double at a minimum
     
  16. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

  17. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    The miniature looks more...feminine than the links?
     
  18. rink28

    rink28 Well-Known Member

    What does the back of the nude painting look like?
     
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  19. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Some printer took a lot of liberty with the lipstick & the rouge. Many reproductions seem to have quite red lips, but not all have this rosebud complexion. He looks rather sallow in most.
     
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  20. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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