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"Scenes Galantes" Gallant Scenes Tapestry

20th Century

Jacquard woven with relief stitch. Fully lined with rod pocket for hanging. 65% wool with/cotton/rayon/polyester. Also available in size 67x77 ( $1,499.00). Please message for more...

Landscapes with trees, birds and rivers were popular tapestry subjects and often included architectural features and sculpture. Jacquard woven with relief stitch. It is fully lined...

This is one of the famous scenes inspired by the gallant country compositions by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. This scene, full of wit, vitality and charm is representative of the tone of t...

Inspired by the Flanders verdure from the early 17th century. The rapid development of new sciences such as botany inspired weavers to produce tapestries known as "verdures". These d...

Inspired by the Flanders verdure from the early 17th century. The rapid development of new sciences such as botany inspired weavers to produce tapestries known as "verdures". These d...

This tapestry is based on a design by William Morris (1834-1896). He was instrumental in the revival of the decorative arts at the end of the 19th century. This tapestry is French ...

Vintage Jewish marriage contract, Most likely printed in the USA or Germany. Used in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hand dated 1921. A rare early American judaic piece. Printed in gold an...

Judy Chicago Cloisonne Brooch of Hildegard of Bingen from The Dinner Party, 1987 Cloisonne brooch/pin with clasp on the back and Judy Chicago's incise...

A charming petit point needlework from the late 19th Century, showing a heartwarming scene of an elderly couple sitting in a close embrace in their home with the cat and dog at their...

"Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman)" is a tapestry by South African artist William Kentridge. It is edition 1 of 5 (plus 2 APs) and signed verso "W. Kentridge". William Kentridge is a South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism he revealed in these and other works echoed a larger European tradition of artists such as Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya, and William Hogarth. Kentridge, whose father was a noted antiapartheid lawyer, attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1973–76) and the now-defunct Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78). At various times in the 1970s and ’80s, he worked as an actor, playwright, set designer, and theatrical director, and he studied mime and theatre in Paris in the early 1980s. In 1992 he began an ongoing collaboration involving multimedia performances with Handspring Puppet Theatre (founded 1981) in Cape Town. As is clear from both his early training and his later artistic output, Kentridge’s interest in the visual arts was rooted in its connection with the theatrical arts. The narrative structure and character development in his films reflect this connection. While Kentridge pursued several avenues as an artist, at the centre of his work was a sequence of short animated films. To produce them, he made a rough charcoal drawing, photographed it, altered the drawing slightly, photographed it again, and so on. Kentridge’s original drawings are often completely effaced by their successors. Many of these films—including Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris (1989) and Felix in Exile (1994)—follow the fortunes of the greedy capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the sensitive and artistic Felix Teitelbaum. They present modern South Africa as reflective of the spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises of late capitalism. Kentridge later established himself as a consummate figure in the performing arts, particularly for his innovative stagings of the operas The Nose (2010) and Lulu (2015) at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Wozzeck (2017) at the Salzburg Festival...

57.5 inches x 57.5 inches Aleksandra Mañczak (born 1948) is an artist and teacher. From 1969 to 1974 she attended the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz, Poland. In 1974 she became an assistant at the Fiber-Art Studio and in 1983 she became the head of the same Fiber-Art Studio. In 1990 she became an assistant professor In 1995 she became a full professor (Professor of Art). From 1993 to 1996 she was the Deputy Rector for Science and Promotion at the Academy. Artistic Activity: photography, (since 2001 digital images), fiber-art, soft sculpture, paper-art assemblage, installation (including open-air), and writing about visual art, fiber-art and installation. She has had one-person shows in 1977, 1988, 1991, 1993, and every year since 1995. location: Lodz, Poland The year 1972 was also the time when Stefan Popławski’s (a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań) piece was created. His simple Self-portrait is a very important interpretation, made in tapestry (162 x 90 cm), of a photograph from a family album. The artist frequently used famous documentary and historical pictures, as well as stills from the movies made by distinguished directors, and press photos. He transformed these selected “films of reality” into cycles: a series of photography reconstructions, movie “pictures,” old performances (Polish banners) and contemporary events. these works got the impact force of a monumentalized...

Material: Sustainably sourced satin, silk, glass beads, thread and sequins Dimensions: 34.5" x 28.5" The tapestry depicts three objects that would be thought of as mundane; a can of green tea, a pack of cigarettes...