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  • Dog is Key to Stolen Paul Gauguin Painting

     

     

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    Did you hear this crazy true-crime story about the Italian auto worker/art lover who paid 45,000 Lire (approximately $100 adjusted for today) for two paintings at the Italian Railways lost and found auction in 1975?

    The paintings turned out to be Fruits on a Table with Small Dog by Paul Gauguin, and Woman with Two Arm Chairs by Pierre Bonnard.

    They were stolen from a London art collector in 1970 by two men posing as burglar alarm technicians.

    Authorities think the thieves abandoned the paintings on the train due to fear of customs.

    The paintings hung on the auto worker's kitchen wall for close to 40 years. Their identity was only discovered when the man died and his son decided to sell them. Upon researching the paintings, he realized that the dog look very similar another Paul Gauguin dog painting.

    Now, it's been discovered that the original owner died and left no heirs.

    The paintings are worth between $14 million and $40 millions.

    Who should get to keep them?

    P.S. In other art heist news, I just watched four seasons of "White Collar" on Netflix. It's corny, con man, forgery, buddy-genre fun.  I really enjoyed it.

    P.P.S. I wish there was an undiscovered Bonnard Dachshund too.

  • Dachshund Hugs Liv Ullmann

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    Dachshund Hugs Liv Ullmann

    I don’t know the photographer or the name of the pup.  But Liv Ullmann is a Dachshund lover.  Last May, she talked to The Boston Globe about rescuing Chelsea, the new Doxie in her life.

    Via Loverunway.

  • Happy Birthday Dog Lover Pablo Picasso

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    Pablo Picasso Playing with Dogs by Edward Quinn, 1960

    Pablo Picasso dances with his Afghan Hound, Kabul, while his other muses, Lump, his Dachshund and Jacqueline, his wife, look on.

    Via Gallerie Michelle Champetier.

  • John F. Kennedy + Dachshund Puppy

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    John F. Kennedy and Dunker, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 1937

    Via The Long and Short of It.  You can buy a matted version of it at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

    Enjoy your President’s Day.

  • Happy Holidays!

     

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    One of my first collages of my little elf. 

    Thank you for your continued support.  It has been powerful to connect with you as I make my way through the sadness and find the joy again.  I am deeply grateful.

    Wishing you a happy holiday season and wonderful new year!  — Moira

  • Happy Birthday Darby!

    For Darby's 17th birthday I wanted to make a short film of him peacefully sitting in his favorite spot.  Like Andy Warhol's "Sleep," maybe I could get him napping and make a quiet, soulful tribute to my very old dog.  This is how it turned out..

     

    Happy Birthday to the little dog who changed my life. 

    Thank you for not always letting me be in charge.  

    I love you.

     

    If you can't see the video in your email, view it here on YouTube.

     

    Credits: Projector sound effects by nemoDaedalus, available for free under the Creative Commons license at Freesound.org.  Camera by Sheila Cameron on her iPhone 4s .   Edited by Moira McLauglin in iMovie.

  • Professional Photography for Rescue Dogs

    Dallas photographer Teresa Berg uses her professional skills to change the lives of rescue dogs.  So inspiring to see what one woman can do…

    Here is the link to the video if you can't view it.

    Teresa Berg also teaches her rescue dog photography lessons online.  The next webinar is October 12, 6-8 pm CDT.  Her last few webinars have sold out, so sign up early.  Visit her Focus on Rescue blog for more information.   

    For information about her professional photography services visit Teresa Berg Photography.

    Thank you, Jim Quinlivan and Tom Turley for sending me this link.

  • Record Sales for Sir Stanley Spencer’s Dog Art

     

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    Sunflower and Dog Worship by Sir Stanley Spencer, 1937

    On Wednesday June 15 2011 at Sotheby's London, seven works by Sir Stanley Spencer, described by the auctioneer as one of the 20th century's most important British painters, were on offer at the first section of a three-part sale of the Evill/Frost Collection.

    The sales of these works totaled £23.0 million ($37.6 million), including a record £4.7 million ($7,705,337) for Workmen in the House, 1935, which was eclipsed minutes later by the £5.4 million($8,796,531) for Sunflower and Dog Worship, 1937, a painting depicting a husband and wife being embraced by giant flowers, said to be an exploation Sir Stanley's notion of universal harmony.

    The other dog painting for sale, The Bathing Pool, Dogs, 1957, was estimated at £800,000 – 1,200,000 and it sold for £4,185,250 ($6,796,009).

     

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    The Bathing Pool, Dogs by Sir Stanley Spencer, 1957

    What recession?

    Keep painting dogs and flowers and universal harmony.

    And have a great weekend!

  • Dita Amory Discusses Pierre Bonnard’s Late Interiors

     

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    Dressing Table and Mirror by Pierre Bonnard, 1913

    This week I am going to feature dog art that inspires my own work.  As I mentioned, I want to create an interior/exterior piece for my February Darby collage.  No one does interiors and exteriors better than Pierre Bonnard, and he is also one of the premiere Dachshund painters in history.  I endlessly return to his Dressing Table and Mirror to study his composition, use of light, and patterns.  And, of course, his Dachshund sleeping on a brown pillow.  How does he make this work without sinking the whole piece with a brown blob in the middle?

    Poking around looking for more, I found this video (below) of Dita Amory, the associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who mounted the 2009 Pierre Bonnard Late Interiors exhibition.  In it, she discusses her mission of "giving Pierre Bonnard his due."  She also tells a tale of a tragic love triangle and a Dachshund painting that survived his wife's destructive rage.  It is a piece I never saw before called Young Woman in the Garden…

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    Young Woman in the Garden by Pierre Bonnard, 1921

    Hopefully, you have the day off so you can take a moment (it's a little over 18 minutes) and listen to Dita Amory discuss Bonnard's overlooked place in art history, his fascinating work methods, his lover, and his wife.  If you receive this post in an email, click through to Dog Art Today to view it.

    I finally discovered the name of Bonnard's Dachshund, Poucette, which is a French female name.  I always thought it was a little guy Doxie.  Now, I'm looking anew, again.

  • Love Tree Print

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    Love Tree by Rheea

    This made me smile.  Available from mydollgift at Etsy.  Free shipping, too.