Fanny Corbaux, Leila, 1845
Marie Françoise Catherine Doetger "Fanny" Corbaux (1812–1883) was a British painter and biblical commentator. She was also the inventor of kalsomine (calcimine), whitewash with added zinc oxide. Via Wikipedia
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Moriel Dezaldeti | Untitled, ~2014
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Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898-1980)
Portrait of Madame Allan Bott, 1930
oil on canvas, 163 x 97 cm @abwwia
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Louise Bourgeois by Allison Adams
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a French-American artist, best known for her large-scale sculptures and installation art (though she was also a painter, printer, and performance artist.) Though she began her studies in spacial geometry, the death of her mother caused her to turn her course, and she moved toward art making as a therapeutic tool. The themes in her long career often connect to events in her troubled childhood and the exploration of womanhood. Louise kept company with many well known artists of her day, but she was not affiliated with one specific movement, preferring to stay original, always outside of a label, continuing to make art till the end of her life—her last piece was finished a week before she died at age 98.
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Lesya Ukrainka (February 25, 1871 – August 1, 1913) poet, dramatist, short-story writer, essayist, and critic and a leading figure in its modernist movement. She also was a political, civil, and feminist activist.
In 1892, she wrote "Predawn Light", which contains this beautiful turn of phrase (as translated):
"Triumphant and solemn, the flush of predawn light
Has pierced through the gloom of the night,
Still asleep are the rays of the sun -
Though the predawn light burns on,
A torch that the workers ignite...
Arise, all the living who think of rebellion!
The hour has come and work to be done!
Fear not the predawn gloom of night -
But kindle the flame of predawn light
Long before the dawn sees the risen sun!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesya_Ukrainka @folkmania
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Louise Bourgeois | LEGS, 2001
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76 x 34 x 22 1/2 inches
193 x 86.4 x 57.2 centimeters
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