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Simon Bussy, Sir Richard Strachey
Simon Bussy "Sir Richard Strachey"
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
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Old Pastel Master: Edgar Chahine
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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…
Jean-Francois Millet, The Knitting Shepherdess
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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
Featured Pastel Artist: Jean-François Le Saint
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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…
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
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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
Old Pastel Master: Herni de Toulouse Lautrec
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Old Pastel Master: Odilon Redon
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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…
Marie-France Oosterhof: the “Get Dusty” Winner
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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…
Featured Pastel Artist: Penelope Milner
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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…
Claude Texier Pastel Demo
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Claude Texier is a very known pastel artist from France where she has been regarded as a “Master Pastelist” since April 2000. She was born in Morocco, where she spent her first twenty years. Since 1994 she has been focused mainly on the art of pastel. In October of 2006, she has been elected as…
Franch Magazine “Pratique des Arts” Special Pastel Edition
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The prestigious French art magazine Pratique des Arts has today published a special edition dedicated to pastel artist around the world. Some of the published artists are listed below. The magazine is accompanied with a DVD. Claude Texier (FRA), Cynthia Blair (USA), Nathalie Picoulet (FRA), Penelope Milner (GB), Jean-François Le Saint (FRA), Sergueï Oussik (RUS),…
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