Let's Talk About Pottery & Collectables
Collectables => Paintings & Prints => Topic started by: notmuchpottery on June 16, 2010, 09:37:39 AM
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Fell in love with this. Cost me a little bit but I think I still got a bargain in my opnion. Painted in either 1923/27. Bit hard to tell as the last digit is right near the frame. Not likely to find the person who actually painted this gorgeous oil on canvas but I will put it here anyway.
The signature reads 'sopres F. von STK masy 1923/7.
Hope you like.
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This reminds me of a painting my grandad painted, not the subject, but the grimace expression on the girls face. In this case though i think it's more of a smile, it's hard to tell. I think she might be glad to see her cheating husbands head on a tray perhaps?
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Wow! You know I think I like this better than the original (which is darker and drearier IMHO) - the face of Salome shows the joy of the dance and the slave is wonderfully depicted in yours.
http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwiki/70/Franz_von_Stuck_010.jpg
TC, the head is that of John the Baptist, which Salome demanded as the price of her dancing for her stepfather King Herod.
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I agree Anne. The original is a lot more darker where is my copy seems to be more brighter with a lot more detail given to the slave. It is very hard to see any detail in the slave in the original.
I love how she seems to be really pleased at being served the head of John the Baptist while she is in mid dance. Although she could be a little more modest in my opnion. ^-^
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Gorgeous...couldn't resist looking again...:)