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Edgar Chahine (1874-1947) was born in Vienna, Austria to Armenian parents and he grew up in Constantinople, Turkey. Chahine and his mother had moved to Venice to escape the persecution of Armenians in Turkey, and there Chahine started studying art in 1892. At age 21 he decided to travel to Paris and pursue a career…
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Artist: Simon Bussy, 1901 Title: “Sir Richard Strachey” pastel on paper 18 in. x 20 in. (457 mm x 508 mm) National Portrait Gallery, London UK Share/Bookmark
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Jean-Francois Millet c.1857 title: The Knitting Shepherdess (La Bergère à tricoter) soft pastel on paper Dimensions: 33.7 x 25.4 cm Share/Bookmark
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Roberta Roby Baer published another beautiful pastel demo. Share/Bookmark
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Jean-François Le Saint is french pastelist and The Société des Pastellistes de France named him the Master Pastel Artist. I was lucky enough to get a short interview with Jean-François. Can you tell us something about your art background? “I guess I am self taught. I did go to art school, but it was a…
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, from 1898 title: Florence pastel 53 x 45 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. Click on the image for a bit higher resolution. Share/Bookmark
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Born in Albi, France, in an aristocratic family that dated back a thousand years. He started to draw and paint as a kid, by the time he was 10. Young Toulouse-Lautrec had two accidents braking his legs, one by the other, which have never healed properly and thus stopped growing. That’s…
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Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, one of the outstanding figures of Symbolism. Until he was in his fifties he worked almost exclusively in black and white—in charcoal drawings and lithographs. In these he developed a highly distinctive repertoire of weird subjects—strange creatures, insects, and plants with human heads and so…
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The Pastel Guild of Europe has announced the winner of the monthly challenge “Get Dusty”. The theme for September 2010 was colored glass. Marie-France Oosterhof is living in the homeland of pastel art – France. She studied pastel with the Société des Pastellistes de France – particularly with David Hervelin and Alain Bellanger, and she…
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Penelope Milner is a well established and distinguished artist who has produced a diverse range of work in a variety of mediums. However she has tended to work more with pastels and has exhibited both with the Pastel Society in London and at the Society de Pastellistes in Paris. Penelope is a member of the…