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The painting shows a tired, faceless Black woman sitting on the edge of her bed about start her workday. The artist first conceived of the painting while getting ready to catch a bus to work on a cold winter morning. [9] As of 2011, Blue Monday was the most mass-produced and popular painting of the artist. [10]
Two Figures (1953) (CR 53–24) is an oil painting by Francis Bacon, sometimes known as Two Figures on a Bed (or, affectionately, "The Buggers"). It measures 152.5 cm × 116.5 cm (60.0 in × 45.9 in), and is in a private collection. The painting depicts two naked men grappling with each other on a disarrayed bed.
Black Woman with Peonies by Frédéric Bazille (1870) located at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Black Woman with Peonies also known as Négresse aux pivoines, Young Woman with Peonies, or Negress with Peonies, is a pair of paintings created by the French Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille in the spring of 1870.
Sleeping Lady with Black Vase (Hungarian: Alvó nő fekete vázával) is a 1927–1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It is a depiction of the painter's wife reclining asleep in a blue dress behind a table on which is set a black vase. The painting was sold in 1928 and was considered lost after World War II.
Emma Jones (later Soyer), Two Children with a Book, 1831, (private collection, on loan to the Tate Britain since 2022) In September 2018 Soyer's painting of two black girls, in a tropical landscape, possibly painted for the slavery abolitionist cause in Britain, was featured on the BBC One television programme Fake or Fortune?. [7]
Bed racing has made its way to the United States, Germany, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. In 1983, Von Harten started Beaufort Water Festival’s annual bed race. The race was, well, clunky.
Watch Meeting—Dec. 31st 1862—Waiting for the Hour is an 1863 painting by the US artist William Tolman Carlton. The location of the original painting is not known, but a different version, possibly a study, is displayed in the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House. Watch meetings originated as nighttime religious services of the Methodist Church.
Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies. Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School is a 17th-century allegorical painting by an unknown artist, and dated from the 1650s. For its period, the painting is considered unusual in its depiction of a black woman and a white woman sitting side by side. [1]