House and garden pictures

Sargent's house belonged to his friend, the artist Francis Millet, and Millet's son was originally supposed to be depicted in the painting.

With the coming of autumn, when the light became less, Sargent replaced the white lilies with artificial flowers. In the summer of 1886, he returned to the painting, but already in the garden near Russell House, and finished the work in October.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Woman with Umbrella in a Garden, 1875

In this painting, Renoir brilliantly reproduced a summer garden in his characteristic manner - with broad strokes, the artist creates pink, yellow, red and green color spots. Renoir's landscape is wild, imposing, filled with light, movement and texture.

Renoir is believed to have painted Woman with an Umbrella in a Garden in his studio in Montmartre in 1875 or 1876. The studio was surrounded by a large garden, and Renoir's friend, art critic George Riviera, recalled the moment when the artist first saw this place: "As soon as Renoir entered the house, he was fascinated by the sight of this garden, more like a beautiful abandoned park. "

Stanley Spencer (1891-1959)
Wisteria at Englefield, 1954

Wisteria at Englefield Painting in Englefield" was written by Sir Stanley Spencer over five weeks in the spring of 1954 in Cooham, Berkshire. This painting was the third of five made for the owner of Englefield House, famous for its gardens.

The fine detail in the depiction of wisteria flowers contrasting with the brick wall highlights Spencer's skill, his analytical view of the plein air, as well as the artist's love for his native Cookham, a place he called "the estate in heaven."

June 25, 2015 at Christie's in London, the painting was sold for £962,500.

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
The Artist's Garden at Giverny, 1912

"I owe it to flowers that I became a painter," said Claude Monet, one of the most famous and prominent artists who glorified gardens in his works. The garden depicted in Monet's painting is located in his house in Giverny - now a museum, which today attracts about 600,000 visitors a year.

Near the famous lily pond, Monet created a classic French flower garden: in dozens of flower beds laid out along gravel paths, Monet grew roses, peonies, lilies, poppies, digitalis, clematis, carefully planning the garden so that it would always bloom and be full colors regardless of the season.

November 3, 2004 at Christie's in New York, the painting was sold for $4,711,500.

Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923)
Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1911

In May 1911, Louis Comfort Tiffany invited Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla to Laurelton Hall in his 84-room Moorish mansion on 580 acres of land in Long Island.

Sorolla preferred not to paint portraits, but he was captivated by the play of light and the opportunity to work outdoors. Tiffany, dressed in a light summer suit, posed at the easel, and his dog can be seen at his feet in the picture.

The portrait was painted on a patio, surrounded on all sides by huge overgrown bushes with white, pink and purple flowers, in the background the sparkling waters of Long Island Bay are visible. Unfortunately, Laurelton hall burned down in the 1950s; Sorolla's painting belongs to the Spanish Society of America.

Adrien-Jean le Mayeur de Merprès (1880-1958)
Women Around the Lotus Pond, 1950-1951

In 1932, at the age of 52, the Belgian artist Adrien-Jean Le Mayer de Merpre decided to move to Bali. “There are only three things in life that I love,” he said, “beauty, sunshine and silence. Now tell me, is there a better place than Bali, where can I find all this?”

Adrian-Jean Le Mayer de Merprat's painting "Women Around the Lotus Pond" depicts 15 Balinese dancers surrounding an ornamental pond with carved wooden figures. Tropical oranges and red and yellow flowers radiate a warm glow to their faces and bodies, just like rose water in a pond reflects sunlight streaming through vines.

On 30 May 2016 at Christie's in Hong Kong, the painting sold for HK$30,360,000.

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Daubigny's Garden, 1890

Two months before his suicide, Vincent van Gogh moved from Provence to Auvers-sur-Oise, a suburb of Paris. “This is a deep beauty,” he wrote to his brother Theo, “this is a real hinterland, characteristic and picturesque.”

For Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise was also attractive because one of his favorite artists, Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-1878), once lived here. Daubigny was an outstanding landscape painter, and Van Gogh sought to paint the garden surrounding the house where he once lived.

Lacking suitable materials, he decided to use what was on hand - a red and white tea towel, possibly taken by Van Gogh from the kitchen at the Auberge Ravoux in the guest house where he was staying.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Garden Scene, early 1920s

Overwhelmed by the horrors of World War I and the failure of the Battle of Gallipoli, Winston Churchill turned to painting as an opportunity to find solace. “It came to me as a salvation in my most difficult time,” he later wrote in his book “Painting as a Pastime.”

The statesman worked mostly plein air in the British countryside. "It's very cool just to draw," he once remarked.

"Garden Scene" was most likely painted at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. The house was once owned by Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, a radical suffragist who was imprisoned in 1909 for throwing a rock at the car of British politician David Lloyd George.

June 21, 2016 at an auction in London, the painting was sold for £170,500.

Churchill's studio in Chartwell is now run by the National Trust.

Jan Brueghel II (1601-1678) and Hendrick van Balen (1575-1632)
Madonna and Child Seated in a Garden with Cherubim, Birds and Animals, 1626-1927

This painting, dated 1626-1627, was painted immediately after the return of Jan Brueghel II from Italy, after the unexpected death of his father, Jan Brueghel the Elder.

Jan Brueghel the Younger imagined paradise as a beautiful garden, decorated with potted plants and with a fountain visible in the background. The detailing with which flowers, leaves and fruits are made demonstrates the artist's abilities as a master of still lifes, as well as his obsession with natural sciences. No wonder his father bore the nickname "Bruegel the Flower". The staffing for the painting was made by the native of Antwerp, the artist Hendrick van Balen (1575-1632).

On July 11, 2001, the painting was sold at Christie's in London for £388,750.

John Leslie Breck (1860-1899)
Garden, Ironbound Island, Maine, c.1896

Early American Impressionist pioneer John Leslie Black spent several years in Giverny, in the inner circle of Claude Monet, who undoubtedly influenced Breck's brushwork and garden paintings.

This painting depicts the garden at the home of Margaret Blaney, daughter of Breck's friend, the American impressionist Dwight Blaney. The home is located on Ironbound, Blaney's private island in French Bay, Maine.

Breck's painting, despite his individual style, vibrant palette and distinctive New England landscape, is influenced by Monet. In addition, Breck greatly embellished the garden by depicting such an "unlikely profusion" of flowers.

November 22, 2016 at an auction in New York, the painting was sold for $1,447,500.

English School
The Royal Gardener John Rose Presents a Pineapple to King Charles II in the Manor Gardens, ca. 1677

The garden and house in the painting may be fictitious, while John Rose is a real character: a royal gardener tending the gardens in St James's Park across from Buckingham Palace.

John Parkinson, the royal botanist at the court of Charles I, describing an exotic fruit, presented the pineapple as a fruit "scaly like an artichoke at first glance, but on closer inspection similar to a pine cone, which we call pineapple for its shape, and which tastes so sweet as if they had mixed wine, rose water and sugar."

On July 5, 2018, the painting was sold for £488,750 at a London auction.

Jonas Wood (b. 1977)
Japanese Garden 3, 2019

American artist Jonas Wood is known for his paintings of potted plants and flower pots, that adorn his studio in Los Angeles. In Japanese Garden 3, the artist expands his interest in leaves and green spaces. The painting shows the influences of Matisse and Calder, and especially the paintings of David Hockney.

“Hockney has always pushed the boundaries as an artist. That's why I'm so attracted to his paintings - because of his constant invention, ”admits Wood.

On May 15, 2019, the painting was sold at Christie's Charity Auction - "Art to Acres" for $4,928,500. The proceeds went to the restoration of the rainforests of South America.

Tochka ART magazine thanks Christie's Auction House for the materials provided.

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Plants in the gardens of famous artists

We are accustomed to look at them as masters of painting and admire their paintings, carefully placed on the walls of museums.

But many artists were avid gardeners. They dug, planted, harvested, planned plantings, and bred plants.

We invite you to take a walk through the gardens of artists and find out what they grew under the windows of their houses.

Claude Monet created his corner of paradise at Giverny

Claude Monet is a famous gardener among artists. The poet Gustave Kahn wrote: "Seeing Claude Monet in his garden, you begin to understand how such a great gardener could become such a great artist." Yes, and Monet himself said that the best of everything he does is the paintings he painted and the plants he grew.

Monet lived in the French village of Giverny for forty-three years. Here he had a house and a large garden. At first it was only a plot around the house, and then he bought land next door where a stream flowed. With the permission of the authorities, Monet made a pond from this stream with a winding coastline. He threw several bridges across the pond, one of which is the Japanese bridge - the famous green bridge.



Artists often depict their muses on canvases, so as soon as Monet moved to Giverny, the garden became the protagonist of his work. Many impressionists came to Monet to be inspired by the magnificence of his garden. On the plot, Monet cut down an alley of conifers, leaving only part of the trunks, which became a support for climbing roses. For several years, the roses have grown so much that they closed. But time destroyed the tree trunks, and now the roses are supported by metal supports. Under the windows, Monet broke a flower garden. A motley carpet of flowers was divided by straight paths.



Monet was an impressionist, and impressionism loves pure color and cannot be faded. Therefore, the artist's garden was planned taking into account the schedule of flowering plants. First, yellow daffodils and tulips bloomed, then colorful rhododendrons, and then the garden turned into a purple field of irises. The artist also loved them.

Monet was a curious and passionate gardener. Six gardeners took care of his garden, the artist subscribed to professional magazines, friends often brought him seedlings as a gift, and Monet himself ordered seeds of rare plants from other countries. Therefore, in his garden, exquisite roses harmoniously coexist with field cornflowers, poppies from the neighboring fields of Giverny - with water lilies from Japan. By the way, he will write them in the famous series of paintings “Waters”.



An interesting fact: in the Japanese town of Seki, on the banks of the most ordinary pond, there was a small Shinto shrine. This pond supplied water to neighboring rice fields and was only of interest to local residents, but now hundreds of tourists come here. The thing is that the same water lilies that grew in Monet's garden were planted in this pond. Now the pond looks like a revived painting by a famous impressionist.

Just look at this beauty! Water lilies bloom in summer, maples burn scarlet in autumn, colorful fish in crystal clear water leave a shadow on the yellow-white sand - Monet would be delighted.



During the life of Monet, his estate was a place of pilgrimage for the Impressionists, and after the death of the artist, his followers organized a museum of impressionism here. The estate became the museum itself, and the garden became its decoration. The former splendor that can be seen in the paintings of Claude Monet cannot be found in the garden now, but all the iconic elements have remained intact.

Gustave Caillebotte cultivated orchids and introduced automatic irrigation in the garden

If you cross the river Seine on the bridge in Giverny, then you will find yourself in Petit-Genvilliers. Here, next door to Monet, lived his friend, an impressionist artist with an original style in painting, Gustave Caillebotte. At the age of 33, he bought a manor here, laid out a luxurious garden and built his own greenhouse to grow rare varieties of flowers. But his passion for gardening began at an early age.



Gustave belonged to the high society of Paris: his father was a judge and was engaged in the textile industry. Every summer, young Gustave spent in a picturesque estate with a park, a garden, a river, pleasure boats and a white house with columns in the city of Hyères, 15 km from Paris. In the backyard, Gustave had his own small garden, which the future famous artist enthusiastically looked after. It was his first passion.

The second passion of young Gustave is painting. He often took paints with him with an easel and went out into the garden to sketch everything that clung to his indifferent to the beautiful look. It was on such plein airs that the style of the artist was formed. Caillebotte expands the space, as if looking through the lens of a wide-angle camera, creating the feeling that the picture is "pouring out" on the viewer. Often uses multiple focal points and a "view from above".



On his own estate in Petit-Genvilliers, Gustave grew many flowers. Dahlias, irises, chrysanthemums, roses, nasturtiums and gladioli grew here. Monet, his neighbor, often visited Gustave to consult on the cultivation of flowers.

Caillebotte's main passion was orchids. For them, he built a separate greenhouse, where he spent a lot of time. In anticipation of the flowering of his favorite flowers, the artist refused trips and visits.

Once Caillebotte, invited to Monet for dinner, wrote a note with a refusal: “My dear friend! I am writing Stanopea Aurea (orchid. - Approx.), which will bloom from this morning only for the next 3-4 days and will no longer bloom until next year. I can't leave her."

One day in February, when the sun was caressing the earth, Gustave went out into his beloved garden. His plans were to break a new pink flower bed. On that day, the artist died of pulmonary edema among the plants. He was 46 years old.

Caillebotte left no heirs, so no one was involved in the preservation of his garden. At the end of World War II, German bombing raids destroyed the estate at Petit-Genville. It is now an industrial area. But the parental estate in Hyères survived and turned into a public art space. The main building has become a museum, the former milkmaid has become a stylish restaurant, the farm has become an Arts and Exhibition Center, and the conservatory has become an exhibition hall.

Camille Pissarro valued fruit trees more than roses

If gardening was a hobby for Monet and Caillebotte, and gardens were a platform for art and experimentation, then for their French Impressionist colleague Camille Pissarro, the garden was a necessity. The peasant garden helped to feed a large family. Pissarro's guests could see a couple of modest but charming flower beds, and the rest of the area was used for growing wheat, tomatoes, and lettuce.

Among the trees there were islands of conifers, the rest were fruit. Even when Pissarro receives big money for paintings, nothing will change in his garden: for him, a fruit tree is more beautiful than roses and orchids.



Frida Kahlo created a unique landscape project in her garden

The same blue house, the same bed where the baby was once born and where she spent a lot of time at the age of seventeen after the accident. Then her father gave her the first paints and a canvas, and so that she could paint her portrait, he hung a mirror over the bed.

Frida spent her last days in this bed. Over the years, the garden surrounding the house has changed significantly, which later became a museum. And Frida's last wish in her lifetime was the desire ... to see the garden.

Let's consider it in more detail.

Coyoacán, the fashionable district of Mexico City, has hardly seen a garden more interesting than Frida Kahlo's garden. Many people say that not only the artist's picturesque legacy, but also her garden, which she personally designed, should be considered art. This garden is like a continuation of the artist herself, her reflection: just as extraordinary, bright, sharp and unique.

Frida was well versed in plants. When she was 14, she entered the National Preparatory School in Mexico. This school prepared for entering the universities of the country. The elite of society studied here. Frida chose to study medicine, and her favorite subjects were biology, in particular anatomy and botany. The passion for these sciences is also noticeable in the work of Frida the artist. Flowers, cacti, trees, watermelons are the silent guests of her paintings.



She lived in a blue house in the very center of Mexico City, on Calle Londres, with her husband, the artist Diego Riviera. The building itself illustrates the progressive views of its owners - deliberately simple forms and lack of decor, huge industrial windows that look like windows of some kind of factory, and a hedge of cacti. For the 1930s, when revolutions and wars spread around the world in waves, such a house is already a statement.

Frida's personality permeates every inch of her house and garden, which is full of plants. She preferred huge cacti, ferns, loved sunny sunflowers. There are many unusual decorative elements here: there are mounds, figures of gods, Aztec pyramids, many stones and artificial reservoirs.



In addition to plants, animals, which Frida also adored, felt great in this garden. Dogs lived here, the little deer Graniso, the parrot Bonito, the eagle Gertrud Kaka Blanca, the monkeys Fulang-Chang and Kaimito. And all this not counting turkeys, pigeons and fish.

Frida kept a gardening diary and collected books about plants. Her library contained many plant atlases, and she paid particular attention to Luther Burbank, a self-taught American plant breeder credited with creating more than 800 plant varieties. Together with her husband, she read Burbank's autobiography, The Harvest of Life, making bookmarks in the book from dried mini-bouquets. They did not know each other personally, but Frida painted his portrait, and Diego placed it in the work "Allegory of California" in the Stock Exchange Tower in San Francisco.



Flowers held a special place in the artist's heart. She wore them in her hair and admired them in her paintings. She said that she writes flowers so that they do not die. Biographers quote her: “Flowers speak a special language, if you understand it, you can understand everything that is hidden”

The house-museum of the most famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is open to the public.

Wassily Kandinsky grew potatoes in Germany

They had to hide. The public did not accept such a strange cohabitation: a young woman, Gabrielle Münter, was first a student, then a comrade-in-arms, and then a lover of the married artist Wassily Kandinsky. They will be together for 12 years, during which Kandinsky will discover a new style in painting, and the lovers will spend the happiest years at the foot of the Bavarian Alps in Murnau.

Together with fellow artists, Vasily and Gabriel visited Murnau. A picturesque small town 50 km from Munich charmed both of them with its green meadows and colorful flowers, neat bright houses and country roads. They decided to stay here to live in order to be creative, and at the same time hide from a judgmental society. Bought a house with land.



In the new house, the lovers made their own nest. In the house they designed the furniture in the spirit of folk art, and on the site Kandinsky set up a real vegetable garden with potatoes and strawberries - a vegetable garden understandable to every Russian and rare German. For this, the house of Munter was nicknamed the "Russian house".

Wassily Kandinsky approached the garden responsibly and enthusiastically. He planned plantings with an emphasis on fruit and vegetable crops, he took care of the plants himself. There are many notes about the harvest in his diaries.

For example: “... Today I arrived at four with a lot of luggage. It was really hot. I immediately went to the garden and ate a few strawberries. Then he drank tea. Then back to the garden. Here's how things are. Not a single berry (that is, not a single currant, etc.) was stolen. Strawberry bushes seem to be splashed with large drops of blood ... Gooseberries are weak - small and very few. Currants are plentiful and good. The raspberry is only just showing up, but it's not as scarce as we thought: a few pounds will come out for sure. The potatoes are good and large (20-25 cm). Cucumbers - the third leaf, healthy ... I watered the garden ... "(06/30/19eleven).

Kandinsky will leave Murnau, and the relationship with Gabriel will end tragically. This will be facilitated by war, revolutions and the new love of the Russian avant-garde artist.

Gabrielle Munter bequeathed to turn the "Russian House" into a museum dedicated to the work of Wassily Kandinsky and their relationship. In the basement of the house, she kept more than 90 oil paintings, 300 watercolors and drawings, diaries and personal correspondence of Kandinsky.

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