Sensual Embrace at an Ancient Temple – Original Gouache by Charles Burki, 1976

The drawing is a pastel work from the late 19th or early 20th century and it features a female nude seated in a chair smoking a cigarette. It is titled "Gisele." The artist's signature on the piece is "M. van Bever de la Quintinie." The technique used here is pastel drawing, a medium where artists use sticks of pigment to create various hues on paper. The nature of pastel allows for soft textures and subtle blending of colors, which is evident in the gentle gradations on the figure's skin and the velvet texture of the seat. The model used named 'Gisele' could potentially refer to the remarkable lady by the name of Gisèle d'Estoc. Gisèle d’Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at least one duel with another woman, inspiring Bayard’s famous painting on the subject. The true identity of this enigmatic woman remained unknown and was even considered fictional until recently, when Melanie C...

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A pair of original gouache paintings, created in 1918- the same year Gustav Klimt died—these works embody the twilight of Vienna’s Golden Age of the Secession. They serve as rare and...

Norha Beltrán (Bolivia, 20th century) "Two Women" original watercolor, circa 1980s Original watercolor on paper. Dimensions: 10.5" x 14.5". The frame ...