La Gazette de Babo: George Spencer Watson intime...!

Je cherche les ventes chez Sotheby's, et tombe sur cette annonce bien mystérieuse :

Erotic Online ! !

Vous reconnaitrez que je n'aborde jamais ce sujet brûlant, mais s'agissant de Sotheby's d'abord, et (forcément) d'Art ensuite, je regarde !

On dirait que les enchères (pudeur oblige) se font uniquement par internet, personne ne se voit, personne ne voit les enchérisseurs, façon pudique d'acheter des oeuvres impudiques ?

Avant d'en arriver au lot 34, car c'est le lot que je voudrais vous montrer, je trouve des livres, des dessins de Picasso, de Cocteau, plein de choses jolies ma foi, par exemple :

Hancarville : Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis 1771

voyez : rien de compromettant, on se croirait à Pompéi !

je ne vous montre pas le dessin de Picasso, lui est compromettant !

ou encore :

J'en arrive au lot 34 et à George Spencer Watson. Comme il est Anglais, je ne trouve sur lui que ce commentaire : George Spencer Watson (8 March 1869, in London – 11 April 1934, in London) was an English portrait artist of the late romantic school who sometimes worked in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1889, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1891. He won Royal Academy Schools Silver Medals in 1889 and 1891, and the Landseer Scholarship in 1892. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1900, Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1904, Associate of the Royal Academy in 1923, and a Member of the Royal Academy in 1932.

In 1909 he married Hilda Mary Gardiner, a dancer and mime artist, and follower of the actor Edward Gordon Craig. They had a daughter, Mary Spencer Watson (1913–2006), who became a sculptor. In the year of 1923 he bought Dunshay Manor in the hills of the Isle of Purbeck, after already having spent holidays in nearby Swanage.

He died in London and a memorial exhibition was held at the Fine Art Society in the same year. There is a memorial to him in the north vestibule of St James's Church, Piccadilly.

Apollo court après Daphné : je devrais écrire : Apollo is runing after Daphné-milf !

Some of his works are held at Tate Britain, the Harris Art Gallery, Preston and collections in Bournemouth, Liverpool, Plymouth and the National Gallery of Canada. Born in London, Watson studied at the Royal Academy from 1889 ; he exhibited there from 1891 and also at the Paris salon. Retrospective exhibitions were held at the Galerie Heinemann, Munich in 1912, and at the Fine Art Society in 1914. His work A Lady in Black (1922) is owned by the Tate Collection.

Quand je vois la lady, tout de noir vêtue, je n'ai évidemment pas envie d'approfondir, c'est un vrai "tue-l'amour" comme disent nos amis Canadiens...

Je parcours quand-même le catalogue de Sotheby's, et tombe sur le lot 34 :

j'ignore si c'est la même, mais elle a ôté le noir !

Vous voyez, on peut agrandir les photos de gauche, pour se donner une idée des détails, par exemple dans votre grand couloir, cela donnera cet effet :