Monday, October 21, 2013

Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842, Ferrara – July 11, 1931, Paris), Italian portrait painter.



Marthe, Princess Bibesco, 1911
Luisa, Marchesa Casati, 1908
Gladys Deacon, later Duchess of Marlborough, "circa 1905-08"
Countess Zichy, 1905 - I find this so very "drag queen"...!
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, and her son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, 1906
Luisa, Marchesa Casati, 1914


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  1. StephenOctober 21, 2013 at 8:07 AM

    I was not aware of this painter. Thank you!

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    1. StephiliusOctober 21, 2013 at 2:47 PM

      You're welcome! It seems Time magazine, a few years after his death, dubbed him the "Master of Swish", not for reasons that - we - might guess, but because of the swirling, sliding, silken drapery wrapped about his precarious about-to-fall-over or about-to-slip-off ladies.

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