Marcel Paul Meys (Active 1880-1901): Pastoral Scene - Study - Oils on Board - In Arcadia

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A seller on eBay France has recently listed this nice idyllic, pastoral study titled "In Arcadia" by the seller. It is by Marcel Paul Meys, who was active from 1880 to 1901. He specialized in landscapes, Orientalist works, and female nude figurative studies. He studied under Puvis de Chauvannes and Jules Elie Delaunay. Although a simple oils on artist board study, it still shows an accomplished, classically trained hand and a fine sense of color and paint application.

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                         Here are a few examples of his works:

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I Prisjazny (?): Kynocephale (Male Nude)

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I know this work is really way outside the intent of this blog, but I just had to share it with you. I have a good sense of humor and I love a good laugh and this work is really intellectually challenging. Auktionshaus OWL, Bielefeld, DE has listed this contemporary Russian painting by I. Prisjazny (?) titled Kynocephale in their current catalog. This also gives me an excuse to point you towards the Leningrad School of Fine Art website http://www.leningradschool.com/ where classical training has always been in style. Pay them a visit.

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Paul Paede (1868-1929): Im Budoir - Female Nude

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Dusseldorfer Auktionshaus, Dusseldorf, DE has recently listed this beautiful female nude in their current catalog by well know figure painter and lithographer Paul Paede (1868-1929). I love the color palette and Paede's complete mastery of color. The title is "Im Boudoir."

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Eric Kips (1869-1945): Venus and Cupid

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Auktionshaus Quenton, Berlin, DE has recently listed a large painting by Eric Kips (1869-1945) titled "Venus and Cupid." Back in May of 2010 I posted an example of a nude study (posted below) by Kips in my collection. Unfortunately, I do not have much biographical information on the artist.
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Eric Kips (1869-1945): Venus and Cupid

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Below is the female nude study by Kips in my collection:

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Richard Maguet (1896-1940): Young Men in the Park

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Eduard Manet: Le dejeuner Sur L'Herbe

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Addendum (April 30): As usual, I try to read through these posts from time to time to correct errors in logic, spelling, and whatever else I see out of whack, and as I was reading through what I wrote about that painting below, glancing down at the overall composition, trying to see more hidden erotic meaning in it, something that I had not seen before leaped off the page at me. Take a careful look at the overall composition of those four boys and then ask yourself what kind of hidden erotic image lies within that composition? If that composition is not phallic, I will eat my jammies. The outline of the male reproductive equipment is right there in that composition to titilate the viewer. I am really surprised it took me so long to see it. It is so obvious if you just look...... see if you can see the shape I am referring to. (hint.. the standing boy is the erect phallus and the boys sitting at his feet become the testes, that red blanket becomes the pubic area). The artist certainly had a sense of humor.

Historia Auktionshaus, Berlin, DE has listed this Richard Maguet painting (directly below) in their current catalog. When I first spotted it in the listings, I laughed out loud. I could not help it. Don't get me wrong, the artistic skills of the artist are not in question, but the subject matter just cracked me up. It immediately reminded me of Manet's "Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe." (Posted above... I always wondered what the heck was going on in that painting and still look forward to my first picnic where everyone takes their clothes off). As I scanned the context of the figures, I noticed that empty bottle of wine and then my attention shifted to the apparent age of the "young men," boys in actuality, and the somewhat obvious sexuality of the entire voyeuristic situation. The artist has intentionally put the observer into the position of being a blatant voyeur, wanting you to appreciate his obvious adoration of that half-nude young man stripping down to his undergarments. Was the object here to shock? Or is it simply an invitation to admire that graceful, half nude, somewhat feminized boy? I know each and every one of you have been relaxing on the beach and had some object of your deepest desire shed his or her clothes within your captured gaze. In this case the artist has memorialized his own vision, an instant in memory when beauty shined brightly and just had to be captured forever.

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Early 19th Century Anonymous Academic Male Nude Study in Red Chalks

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Kunstauktionen Karl & Faber, Munich, DE has just listed this beautifully executed early 19th century Academic male nude in their current auction catalog. The drawing is unsigned, dates from the early to mid 19th century, and is executed in red chalks.
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