William Henry Margetson | The sea hath its pearls, 1897

"The sea hath its pearls" is an 1897 oil painting by British figurative painter William Henry Margetson (1861-1940).

The circlet of crabs carved in low relief on the frame of this painting is integral to its success as a work of art.

Echoing the seaside theme, and offering closure to an otherwise excessively open composition, the frame participates in the painting quite as constructively as the bending figure and wave-lapped beach.

Alfred Stevens | Un soir a la mer

Alfred Stevens, born in Brussels, was a student of François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869), Belgium's most important pupil of Jacques-Louis David; then in 1844 Stevens continued his studies under Camille Roqueplan (1803-1855) in Paris, whose looser, more casual technique pleased public taste.

After 1852, Stevens remained in Paris indefinitely; his earliest works show various influences, from Courbet, Couture, and Velázquez.

Maria Zeldis (1955-2018)

Maria Fedotova-Zeldis è nata in Ucraina. Trascorse l'infanzia a Kiev ed all'inizio degli anni '90, lei e suo marito si sono trasferiti in Messico, dove ha vissuto e lavorato in un'orchestra sinfonica.

Artista autodidatta, la Zeldis aveva molto talento, è stata pianista e docente presso il Messico Sinfonica di Stato.

Il suo lavoro è bellissimo e così dettagliato.

Salvador Dalì

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, marchese di Púbol (1904-1989) è stato un pittore, scultore, scrittore, cineasta e designer Spagnolo.

Dalí era un abile disegnatore tecnico, ma è celebre soprattutto per le immagini suggestive e bizzarre delle sue opere surrealiste.

Il suo peculiare tocco pittorico è stato spesso attribuito all'influenza che ebbero su di lui i maestri del Rinascimento. Realizzò la sua opera più famosa, La persistenza della memoria nel 1931.

Paul Sérusier (French painter, 1864-1909)

Paul Sérusier was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabis movement. He studied at the Académie Julian and was a monitor there in the mid 1880s. In the summer of 1888 he traveled to Pont-Aven and joined the small group of artists centered there around Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)🎨.

While at the Pont-Aven artist's colony he painted a picture that became known as The Talisman, under the close supervision of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)🎨.

The picture was an extreme exercise in Cloisonnism that approximated to pure abstraction. He was a Post-Impressionist painter, a part of the group of painters called Les Nabis. Sérusier along with Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)🎨 named the group.

Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis became the best known of the group, but at the time they were somewhat peripheral to the core group.

Alfred Maurer | Paris at Night, 1900

Alfred Maurer (1868-1932), who spent nearly two decades as an expatriate in Paris, was one of the first American artists to work in a postimpressionist style.

He was born in New York City on April 21, 1868.

Maurer’s parents, Louis and Louisa, were both of German descent.

Maurer’s father was a successful illustrator, most notably with Currier and Ives, and a formidable figure in his son’s life, ultimately opposing Maurer’s embrace of modernism.

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

Frida Kahlo was s Mexican painter who produced mostly small, highly personal self-portraits using elements of fantasy and a style inspired by native popular art. Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, near Mexico City.

While a student at Mexico City's National Preparatory School in 1925, she sustained severe injuries in a bus accident. During her recuperation, Kahlo taught herself to paint.

After three years she took some of her first paintings to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who encouraged her to continue her work. Kahlo and Rivera married in 1929.

Influenced by Rivera's work, Kahlo adopted his use of broad, simplified color areas and a deliberately naive style in her paintings.