Mandolins in visual art

**B. T. Walker** · Jun-10-2007, 12:14pm

Amico Calabrese painted by his son Anthony Calabrese in 1976. I like this kind of portrait.

**B. T. Walker** · Jun-21-2007, 1:10pm

Happy Summer!

**JEStanek** · Jun-21-2007, 1:29pm

Sadie Compton has a bunch of her paintings that include mandolin, I wonder why?

See them here.

Jamie

**jefflester** · Jun-21-2007, 4:15pm

Last month I visited Musee L'Orangerie in Paris and there were several paintings by André Derain that featured mandolins.

**B. T. Walker** · Jun-21-2007, 4:31pm

The top picture by André Derain is of Harlequin and Scapino, stock characters in comedia del arte. I was cast as Scapino in a high school production of "A Company of Wayward Saints", and opened the first scene playing a guitar (badly -- good thing it was a comedy).

**John Craton** · Jun-21-2007, 8:37pm

Here's a little object I saw the other day while buying groceries. Not expecting to find an angel playing a mandolin (though it's not quite a mandolin) in a food store, I only had my cell phone there to take a picture. Not very clear, but it beats having her holding an electric sitar.

**Dan Cole** · Jun-26-2007, 12:14pm

I saw this on German eBay. #It's a piece called "Mandolina" by a Spanish artist named Cristine Puell. # It's inspired from the works of Salvador Dali. #Not my cup of tea, but maybe someone else will find in moving.

**B. T. Walker** · Jul-06-2007, 8:39am

Standing Mandolin Girl, by Hippolyte Moreau

**Martin Jonas** · Jul-06-2007, 8:46am

Originally Posted by (jefflester @ June 21 2007, 17:15)

Last month I visited Musee L'Orangerie in Paris and there were several paintings by André Derain that featured mandolins.

Hmmm... Clearly M. Derain did never count the number of tuners on a mandolin -- two pictures, two mandolins, six tuners both times.

Martin

**JeffD** · Jul-06-2007, 8:59am

Chagall did several paintings featuring a mandolin player.

**B. T. Walker** · Jul-06-2007, 9:35am

You can see the person in the background playing a mandolin. This is a reproduction of a reproduction (sort of).

**B. T. Walker** · Jul-15-2007, 9:16pm

Seated Mandolin Girl, by Hippolyte Moreau. #Perhaps it's the companion to Standing Mandolin Girl posted earlier.

**B. T. Walker** · Aug-23-2007, 10:45pm

I forget which post this came from, but I like the huge mando.

**Neil Gladd** · Aug-26-2007, 9:37pm

The "decoist" art deco mandobabe. Lady in Blue with Mandolin by Tamara de Lempicka, painted in 1929. I have a hand-painted reproduction occupying a place of honor in my apartment.

**B. T. Walker** · Aug-26-2007, 11:48pm

That's a classic, ngladd. I bet it looks awesome hanging in your place.

**B. T. Walker** · Sep-11-2007, 10:01pm

This was identified only as "lead stained glass casting". Looks like something up Arthur Stern's alley, twice because of mando content.

**B. T. Walker** · Sep-30-2007, 10:37pm

Before September gets away, here is an appropriate sculpture by Brigette Mongeon.

**Plamen Ivanov** · Apr-12-2008, 1:25pm

This topic has to be revived...

This is a fountain sculpture in a small German village called Schwangau.

**Mark Walker** · Apr-12-2008, 6:29pm

How about a visual work of art with a mandolin ON a mandolin?

One of Ken Ratcliff's beautiful Silver Angels.

**Mr. Loar** · Apr-12-2008, 6:43pm

I love this thread!!!

**B. T. Walker** · Apr-12-2008, 10:33pm

I liked this.

**Martin Jonas** · May-19-2008, 6:58am

I've just come back from a week's holiday in the South of France. #One of the glories of holidaying in France is fresh croissants in the morning and as some of you will know, the local bakeries tend to put them in little paper bags with whimsical printed pictures. #This is one I kept from this particular holiday, for reasons that will be obvious...

Martin