Auction 35 Collectibles, paintings, antiques and jewelry
Nov 24, 2018 (Your local time)
Russia
 ul. Ausekla 6a, Riga

The auction house "Artembassy" is organizing the biggest artwork auction in the Baltics! The auction will take place quite soon - on November 24 of this year, at 12.00 o'clock at the premises of Rietumu Banka in Vesetas street 7, Riga. Auction exhibition will be on wiev from 12.to 24 november. The auction will provide bidding onsite, bidding online, remote bidding and bidding on the phone. 

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Janis Rozentals (1866-1916)
Mother with child

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Mother with child

Beginning of 20th century. Paper, watercolor. 27.5x19.7 cm

Author Janis Rozentals

Beginning price € 5500 Article 35_A24468 

Janis Rozentals (1866-1916)

Famous Latvian painter.
Rozentals painted many portraits. The creative potential of the artist revealed itself in the portraits of persons spiritually close to him. Rozentals made several portraits of the patron of writers and artists A.Dombrovskis, writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis, artist's wife Elli Forsell.

Janis Rozentals interested in the biological nature of man – the world of passions, the love theme, was typical of his time. He used the popular Biblical plots "Temptation", "Eve with the Apple", motives from the mythology and observations of the reality of his time. At least a part of the fantastic images possessed both, contemporary and local, and individual symbolic meaning.

Artist turned to landscape painting as well, and created a lyrical image of the motherland in the Latvian art. His favorite season was spring, the rebirth of Nature. J.Rozentāls made several altar-pieces to order in the churches of Latvia. In his altar-pieces Rozentāls omitted the dynamics, expressiveness, texture and finished composition. He took into consideration the understanding of art of the simple people and adapted himself to it, yet at the same time he tried not to lose the artistic quality.

The artist tried his skills in monumental painting. In the summer of 1910 he worked at the decorative frieze on the facade of the newly erected building of the Riga Latvian Society. He painted seven symbolic compositions characterizing the main activities of the society.


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