July Online Antique & Art Auction

Lot 146:

Academic Style Male Nude Portrait O/C Painting Yaoge

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Start price: $100

Estimated price: $650 - $1,250

Buyer's premium: 25%

A Well Executed Oil on canvas framed painting Signed Yaoge. Measure 22.5"X26.5". Academic art, or academicism or academism is a style of painting, sculpture, and architecture produced under the influence of European academies ofart. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by thestandards of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts, which was practicedunder the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art thatfollowed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of theirstyles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-AdolpheBouguereau, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart.