King Lear Collectable original art from Millennium Shakespeare Start Price GBP 8,150.00 Current Price GBP 8,150.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, November 18, 2008 End Time Friday, November 28, 2008 Location Ipswich See more about 'King Lear' Description KING LEAR from the series of Books MILLENNIUM SHAKESPEARE   There are 6 works of art for sale. The art is of the highest standard. There are also some high resolution samples showing the quality of the artwork. Please contact me for any information regarding these works of art. Collection and viewing of the original art in person only. NO Sale will be made over the internet and the buyer or the buyers representative must come and view the artwork in person, unless the buyer is happy to send money before sight and receipt of the artwork.   Payment will be by Bank Transfer or Cash paid into the receiving bank.  Cash will not be accepted on a private basis and any payment will be witnessed by a bank official in United Kingdom. The Art (goods) will not be released until all payment is cleared and verified by the receiving bank. A  British lawyer will be instructed to complete the transaction and you may use your lawyer from your country to liase, if so desired.   Six full size artworks are shown and also hi resolution samples of part of the artworks are shown for your review.   Please note that there are 6 works of art - Each work of art is different and each artwork is sold at a starting price of £8,150 Sterling - For a price before end of auction on the complete set of 6 paintings please contact me.   Please state clearly which piece of artwork you require if buying one piece or fewer than the complete set of 6 artworks.   You can see the content of the book at www.millenniumshakespeare.com or visit google books and type King Lear Millennium Shakespeare.   The copyright holder and owner of the art is the seller.   These paintings  which are approximately 640mm x 450mm Portrait in mixed media are from the series Millennium Shakespeare.   Mixed/Gouache - The artworks are ORIGINAL and are not copies or reproductions from any other paintings. Inspired from the historical Shakespeare story King Lear, from the series of books Millennium Shakespeare and painted Pavel Tartarnikov.   The artist Pavel Tartarnikov is recognised as one of the finest artists in the world for producing work in minute detail.   Pavel Tatarnikov   Was born in 1971 in Brest (Belarus) in the artist's family.   1989 — graduated from the State School of Fine Arts and Music. Minsk.   1995 — graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts (graphic department). Minsk.   Since 1997 — the member of the Belarusian Artists Union.   Since 2001 — the Academician in drawing of the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts. Awards Premium "Golden Double" of the association of publishers of Belarus. Contest " Artist and Book ' 1998 ". Minsk The "PLAQUE of The International Golden Pen" of "The 40-th Golden Pen of Belgrade". 1999. Belgrad. Grand Prix of the annual exhibition " Artist and Book ' 2000 ". Minsk. Certificates of degree I and II at the contest "The Art of Book". 2000. Minsk. Diploma of the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts. Certificate of degree I at the contest "The Art of Book' 2001". Minsk. Prize "BIB Golden Apple" of the International Biennale "BIB'2001". Bratislava. Slovakia. Certificate of degree I at the contest "The Art of Book' 2002". Minsk. Premium "The Best Edition of the Year" of the contest "The Art of Book' 2003". Minsk.   Exhibitions   1992 The International Jeans Festival. Solnechogorsk, St.-Petersburg. Russia.   1994 Exhibition of Illustration for Belarusian Fairytales. Rheine. Germany. Project "Е - 30". Rheine. Germany. "White Art Festival". Minsk. Belarus.   1995 Project "Pup Ziamli - Nabel der Welt". Minsk. Belarus. "Josep de Ribera" International biennale of engraving. Xativa. Spain. The 18-th International independent biennale of engraving. Kanagava. Japan.   1996 "Chernobyl - 10 years". Minsk. Belarus.   1997 "Art Familia". Brest. Belarus.   1998 "Artist and Book ' 98". Minsk. Belarus.   1999 International biennale "The 40-th Golden Pen of Belgrade". Belgrade. Yugoslavia.   2000 "Artist and Book ' 2000". Minsk. Belarus. "Fashion and Traditions". " Salome" gallery and gallery of Ivana Folova. Prague. Czech Republic.   2001 "Artist and Book ' 2001". Minsk. Belarus. Biennale of European Illustration BEIJ'01. Japan. "Bologna Children Book Fair". Bologna. Italy. "DACH - ДAХ". "Tacheles" center. Berlin. Germany."60 х 30". Brest. Belarus. "BIB'2001". Bratislava. Slovakia. "The Sky and the Land of Ferdinand". The Museum of Modern Art . Minsk. Belarus. International biennale "The 41-th Golden Pen of Belgrade". Belgrade. Yugoslavia.   2002 "Artist and Book ' 2002". Minsk. Belarus. "Bologna Children Book Fair". Bologna. Italy. Illustrators Exhibition in Japan (Bologna'2001). Itabashi Art Museum. Japan.BIB'2001 in Japan. Japan. "The House Built of the Doors". International Goethe Institute. Minsk. Belarus. "The Windows of a City". The Museum of Modern Art . Minsk. Belarus.   2003 "Artist and Book ' 2003". Minsk. Belarus. Personal exhibition of illustrations. The Museum of History and Culture . Minsk. Belarus. Personal exhibition of illustrations. Yanka Kupala's Memorial Museum. Minsk. Belarus.   About 200 years ago, Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery John Boydell (1719-1804), an alderman for the City of London, made his fortune as a publisher of books, illustrations and engravings that were popular in England and on the continent, particularly in France. In 1786 he and a group of friends and business associates devised a plan for an ambitious edition of Shakespeare's plays with illustrations by the best artists in England. Shakespeare it was suggested as being the most worthy of national subjects. Financing the project entirely himself, he began immediately to raise a list of subscribers for the volumes, to commission painters to do the illustrations and to open a gallery to exhibit the paintings.   Boydell's The Shakespeare Gallery opened in 1789 in Pall Mall, and the first set of engravings based on the paintings was issued in 1791. Ten years passed before the nine-volume folio edition was published in 1802, and in the next year, 1803, Boydell printed the two-volume elephant folios of all the engravings based on the paintings in the gallery. These engravings are available to us now in a reprint, The Boydell Shakespeare Prints, but in the form of a style that was popular at the time and published by Benjamin Blom in 1968. The reprints include the one hundred engravings from Boydell's Collection of Prints (1803) and the one hundred "smaller" engravings from the nine-volume folio edition (1802). Boydell's considerable impact on the commerce and culture of his day was recognized in 1790 with his appointment as Lord Mayor of London. His contribution lives on in the exquisitely executed engravings, conceived as a tribute to his country and countrymen, and as stated in a posthumous advertisement for the folio: "surpass[ing] in splendour, all former publications, as far as the genius of Shakespeare surpasses that of all other Dramatic poets."   Boydell was, unfortunately, forced to sell his paintings and close his gallery, due chiefly to an event he could not have foreseen:   Almost two hundred years ago, with a mind to introduce children to 'the beautiful English tongue' of the most celebrated author in the language, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary published Tales from Shakespeare. They meant their 'foretastes of the great pleasure' of Shakespeare to prepare young people for a lifelong appreciation of his plays. Since children found Shakespeare’s language difficult, the Tales presented the events in simplified narrative form, while retaining some of the grandeur of blank verse. Because of their complexity, some of the plots needed to be simplified, too. Thinking the names and circumstances in the history plays often confusingly similar, the Lambs left them out entirely.               It did not take long for publishers to illustrate Tales from Shakespeare. In 1878, for instance, twelve photographs were used from the Boydell Gallery, including one used as a frontispiece, and were equally divided between comedies and tragedies. Later, Arthur Rackham’s illustrations of Tales from Shakespeare were especially beautiful. Since the Lambs, there have been various attempts to bring the works of Shakespeare to children; many of them, The Children’s Shakespeare, for instance, adorned with elegant illustrations.               Michael Stewart’s Millennium Shakespeare is in this grand tradition, designed to attract young readers, not only by introducing them to the heightened language of Shakespeare, but also by encouraging their imagination with splendid visual representations of the subject matter. However, unlike Tales from Shakespeare and most of the successive volumes designed to introduce children to the works of England’s greatest poet, Millennium Shakespeare presents comprehensive narrative treatment of the entire Shakespeare canon.               Two hundred years had passed from Shakespeare’s time to that of the Lambs; and now another two hundred have gone by since that first attempt to interest and to educate young readers in the colossal scope and splendid diction of Shakespeare’s plays. Stylistic changes have occurred in publishing, set design, directing and acting. Shakespeare’s audience today is very different from the motley crowd that thronged into the Globe Theatre in the late-sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Therefore, no purpose would be served by separating our sense of Shakespearean drama from popular cinematic performances of such plays as Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, to mention but a few. Actors like John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, Kenneth Branagh, Gwyneth Paltrow and Derek Jacobi - to say nothing of the notable directors and costume and set designers - have had as much influence in shaping the popular imagination of notable scenes and characters from Shakespeare’s plays, as have the sketches and paintings of such artists as John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Arthur Rackham. Perhaps even more important in that respect are the hundreds of films that have been produced based on Shakespeare's works. Indeed, it could be argued that William   Shakespeare from Stratford upon Avon, who may never have ventured further from the village of his birth than London, is the most successful screenwriter in history. Many youngsters who have never seen a Shakespeare play onstage have seen Romeo and Juliet on film.               From the early seventeenth century to the beginning of the third millennium, Shakespeare’s literary reputation has flourished. But the competition for the attention of children, who - experts tell us - are all too often 'reluctant readers', is intense. We don't need to be hysterical defenders of a canon inscribed in stone to want the next generation of students to know Shakespeare; but that knowledge must begin somewhere. If an introduction to Shakespeare is to be successful, it is unlikely to be in the setting of an academic symposium. Rather, children need a vehicle like Millennium Shakespeare to prepare them for the adult experience of discovering the work of what many consider the most gifted writer who ever lived.   Condition of paaintings are 'used' but are in Mint and perfect condition.   Any bidders who fail to make payment once the ebay auction has ended will be reported to ebay. Place a Bid!