Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

727. Drawings for Unrecorded Histories (2)

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Some illustrations in Unrecorded Histories  are pure silhouette drawings, but the first drawing in the book - see last week's blog - con...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

726. Drawings for Unrecorded Histories (1)

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Several sketches have been preserved for the cover of the short story collection Unrecorded Histories (which would be published two years a...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

725. The Great Wave off Kanagawa

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The auction catalogue  Japanese Prints. Art of the Woodblock (Dreweats, 8 July 2025) contains a famous print by Katsushika Hokusai, 'Un...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

724. A Male Nude by C.H. Shannon

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Bonhams in London, in an auction of British and European Art (19 June 2025), offers two drawings by Charles Shannon in a rather carelessly ...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

723. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (7)

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Raphael is one of those artists whom Charles Ricketts attempted to portray in a nuanced manner in his study The Prado and Its Masterpieces ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

722. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (6)

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Charles Ricketts would write twice about Leonardo da Vinci for The Vasari Society, having previously discussed his work in his two books The...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

721. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (5)

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Although Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was one of the most important influences on Ricketts's work, he did not write often about th...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

720. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (4)

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In 1936, Christie, Manson & Woods issued the catalogue of The Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenhei...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

719. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (3)

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The brief articles Ricketts wrote for the Vasari Society featured artists he often mentioned in his books  The Prado or Titian , or in revi...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

718. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (2)

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From the moment the Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters presented its first portfolio in 1905 until the publicati...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

717. Charles Ricketts and The Vasari Society (1)

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The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters was founded in 1905, and a first portfolio was probably issued in January...
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