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EDINBURGH. Lavery, The Tennis Party

"This summer, the National Galleries of Scotland presents Impressionism & Scotland, an exhibition of over 100 paintings, pastels and watercolours, which explore the Scottish taste for Impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and assess the impact of modern European art on Scottish art and artists.

Highlights include Renoir's The Bay of Naples (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), the first Impressionist painting to be bought by a Scot; Degas's L'Absinthe (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which was 'hissed' when it came up for auction in the early 1890s, due to its 'depraved' subject-matter; and Sir John Lavery's The Tennis Party (Aberdeen Art Gallery), a rare example of Scottish modern life painting. Other major Impressionist works are on loan from private and public collections in the UK, Germany, the USA and Australia. Artists represented in the show include Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh, as well as the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists.

Following its run in Edinburgh, a condensed version of Impressionism and Scotland will be shown at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, from 31 October 2008 to 1 February 2009". The Art Daily Newspaper

Fabulous Masterpieces mentioned in London's WestSide Magazine

1st August 2008

Absolutely Fabulous

Fabulous Masterpieces in Shepherd's Bush can recreate any of your favourite artworks. Neil McKelvie meets Tim and Anouska - the brains behind the business

Above: Embracing all artists: Gustav Klimt's The Kiss

'We had one client who commissioned a reproduction of Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington, but with a rather strange twist. He asked us to subtly alter the face to include his own features,' smiles Tim Bertram. 'Apparently the idea was that his friends would assume that he was related to the Duke! He was deadly serious - he even wanted an exact replica of the frame. We had to get a photograph sent from the Prado Museum in Madrid, which currently houses the original, so that we could ensure a perfect match. We're happy to change details or backgrounds, but requests like that don't happen very often!'

Tim and his fiancée Anouska Hudovsky are the masterminds behind Fabulous Masterpieces, a Shepherd's Bush-based art boutique that promises to provide the ultimate solution to blank-wall syndrome by supplying museum-quality, hand-painted reproductions of famous (and not so famous) paintings. 'These days you can buy prints from high street stores, but by the time they've been framed you'll end up paying £100-plus,' Tim continues.
'Our customers receive a superb oil painting for just over £200: all our works are done to order by highly skilled professional artists who use fine linen canvases and the best Winsor & Newton oils. We're totally confident of the quality - which is why we always offer a full
money back guarantee.'

Tim and Anouska launched Fabulous Masterpieces last autumn, although the concept had been brewing for the previous two years. It was inspired by the couple's twin passions for art and travel. During a globetrotting 'year-out' they visited studios and galleries and returned with reproductions of paintings as gifts for family and friends. 'Everyone loved them - and that's when the idea dawned on us,' Anouska recalls.
'So then we started following up contacts and word-of-mouth recommendations. After a year we had gathered together a core group of artists with the technical skill and 'eye' to replicate every style. They are paid upfront and that means we get a fantastic service; we have a four-week turnaround from accepting a commission to delivering the work.'

Fabulous Masterpieces makes the bold claim that its artistic stable - at the moment they have 36 artists in five countries on the books - can reproduce any work by any artist who died prior to 1938. The copyright will also stay with the artist's estate for 70 years after death. 'Some orders have sent us scurrying for the reference books,' admits Anouska. 'But so far, all commissions we've had have been matched with one of our team - no matter what style or artist.'

The commissioning process itself is straightforward. 'People get in touch and tell us what they're after - often our website has given them a flavour of what we can achieve,' explains Tim. 'After confirming the size and price, we email them a version of the original just to make 100 per cent sure that we're talking about the same work. Recently someone ordered a painting of Rouen cathedral by Pisarro, but it turned out that he had done two - and the one we had sourced wasn't the one the client had in mind.
'We then commission the artist best suited to the style and when the canvas is completed, we send a photograph to the customer to see if they want any amendments. Then it's simply waiting for the oils to dry.'

As well as the reproduction element of the Fabulous Masterpieces business - it is proving popular with men looking for presents for their partners - Tim and Anouska also accept commissions for personal portraits of people and pets. Reproduced from photographs, their 'Designer Art' service allows customers to commission bespoke pieces of art that complement the colours and textures of their home. 'People send in a photo of the style that they want matched and we brief our artists,' says Tim. 'And, most excitingly, we're also starting to work with interior designers. They give us a brief and we create artworks that reflect the décor.'

In the future, Tim and Anouska would love to expand into the corporate market and, ultimately, own their own gallery. In the meantime, Fabulous Masterpieces is,
in Anouska's words, 'happy to paint anything that anybody wants. If you said: "I would like you to paint a Rothko-inspired artwork, but using pink and yellow," we would.'

020 8740 8708 www.fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk
tim@fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk

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Check out our mention in The Sunday Times!

If you can tie in your decor with your painting, there's a certain wow factor

Wendy Sloane

Toby and Clare Atkinson, a couple of newlyweds, had a dilemma. They loved Matisse's The Dance, but the painting, with its orange, green and blue colour scheme, didn't match their understated living room, decorated in dark red, cream and taupe. What to do? Sadly, Matisse didn't paint a version in those earthier tones, but the Atkinsons knew someone who would.

Her name is Grainne Jordan, and she will paint you something "in the style of" Picasso, Matisse or Miro, in the original colours - or, frankly, any colour you want. Whether it's for a private house, a hotel, a show flat or a restaurant, Jordan can paint her own take on originals to match the colour of the walls, the furniture, even the cat.

"Most people have already decorated their house, bought sofas and carpets, and want to buy art that works as well as possible within those parameters," says Jordan, who spends between two weeks and several months on a painting, in oil, and charges from £300. "And, of course, the client gets something unique."

That is exactly what Sue and Dominic Morgan had in mind when they moved to a gothic house in Lewisham, southeast London, three years ago. "Our previous houses were pared-down, with a minimalist feel," says Sue, 44, who runs her own consultancy business. "When we moved here, we realised all our 1960s pieces would work only if we had an eclectic empire mix."

Jordan does not have this curious - and apparently expanding - market to herself. Fabulous Masterpieces, an art-reproduction firm based in Shepherd's Bush, west London, also does its own versions of the classics. A note on its website sums up its offer: "Why spend hours and hours looking for art to match your furniture or your colour scheme when you can simply send us a photo of the pattern or a colour you love and we'll paint it for you? Art that's guaranteed to match your surroundings, your style and taste."

"We can paint anything that anybody wants," says Anouska Hudovsky, 26, who started the business in November. "If you said, 'I want you to paint a Rothko using pink and yellow,' we would." The works sell for £147-£350, and, says Hudovsky, are popular with interior designers: "People are moving away from having a painting they feel empathy with to having something that will stand out in their home, yet fit in."

Not everyone, however, is impressed by the idea of colour-co-ordinated paintings. "How tasteless can you get?" splutters David Lee, editor of The Jackdaw, an art magazine. "The designers have the excuse that they can get away with it and make money out of it, but, once you have tampered with people's original ideas, you are not dealing with the art any more, but with the fatuities of interior decoration.

"I can't believe people would be so shallow that they could have on their walls something that is no longer a work of art, but that fits the colour scheme of the curtains and sofa."

http://www.fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk/

Have your say

"I think the idea that Fabulous Masterpieces has of picking colours for oil paintings to suit your decor is brilliant, The fact that i can also get this done for around £300.00 is just amazing".

Tina McGowan, London, England

"Great concept, idea has proven to be very successful in USA good luck to Anouska (Fabulous Masterpieces) & Grainne"

Juan, NY, USA

"Love Fabulous Masterpieces, great alternative to expensive low quality prints. What is wrong to reproduce to your own taste/requirements a loved artist/painting. Prices of todays artists are ridiculous and for the price you pay at least you'll get a proper oil painting and if quality is good I think is a bargain & fantastic idea".

javier, London,

Art Heist Special

As you've all no doubt read:

"Robbers wearing ski masks and brandishing pistols stole Impressionist masterpieces by Cezanne, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh worth more than £80m from a Zurich museum in one of the most spectacular art thefts in Europe for decades, police have said". (The Independent)

If you're gutted that you're now not going to be able to see Paul Cezanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat; Claude Monet's Poppy Field at Vetheuil; Edgar Degas' Ludovic Lepic and His Daughter; and Vincent Van Gogh's Blossoming Chestnut Branches (worth over £80 Million) then don't despair! Help is at hand.

You can commission your very own authentic hand painted reproduction of any of these paintings to place in your home or office for under £300.

Just promise us you'll try and take better care of them than the Zurich Art Museum.

Cezanne's Boy in a Red Waist Coat

Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906).

Boy in a Red Waistcoat 1888-90. Oil on canvas. 35 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (89.5 x 72.4 cm) Don't miss this opportunity to own a world famous oil painting masterpiece.

Monet's Poppy Field

Claude Monet (French,1840-1926)

Poppy Field at Vetheuil. Oil on canvas. 28.7in x 23.6in (73.0 x 60.0cm )

Degas' Count Lepic and his Daughters

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917).

Count Lepic and His Daughters, 1871. Oil on canvas. 65.5 x 81 cm (25 3/4 x 31 in.).

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890).

Blossoming Chestnut Branches, 1890. Oil on canvas. 72.5 x 91 cm (28 9/16 x 35in). To order any of these paintings please email: info@fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk

The top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold at auction!

Have you ever wondered how much some paintings actually get sold for at auction?
Million and millions of pounds are spent year on year by the wealthy looking for a sought out piece of artwork. So what is the most expensive piece of art?

1. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt

$135,000,000

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer Iby Gustav Klimt (1907)
This painting was sold to Ronald Lauder for his Neue Galere in New York City for $135 million in June 2006 at auction in Christie's, New York.

The portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist is considered one of the artist's masterpieces. Did you know that Adele Bloch-Bauer became the only model who was painted twice by Klimt see the other at http://www.fabulousmasterpieces.co.uk/page10.htm

2.Garçon à la Pipe by Pablo Picasso

($104,100,000)

Garçon à la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a painting by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1905 during Picasso's famous Rose Period, a period in which Picasso preferred cheerful orange and pink colours.

On May 5, 2004 it sold for $104.1 million at an auction in Sotheby's in New York, after having been given a pre-sale estimate of $70 million by the auction house. The record price was a bit of a surprise since the painting is not made in the Cubist style that Picasso is so renowned for. Many art critics have stated that the painting's high sale price has much more to do with the artist's name than with the merit or historical importance of the painting.

3.Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo Picasso

($95,200,000)

Dora Maar au Chat (Dora Maar with Cat) is a 1941 painting Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, the painter's mistress, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. The work is painted in Picasso's well-known cubist style. It was sold in an auction of impressionist works held at Sotheby's on May 3, 2006 in New York to an anonymous bidder, whose final bid was $95.2 million, well exceeding the pre-auction $50 million estimates.

4. Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh

($82,500,000)

This painting was sold to Japanese businessman Ryoei Sai for
$82.5 million on May 15, 1990 at auction in Christie's, New York. Portrait of Dr. Gachet is painted in June 1890 by Dutch Impressionism master Vincent van Gogh.

Ryoei Saito shocked the world when he announced he wish the van Gogh painting to be cremated with him at his death. Later he explained he was using a figure of speech: threatening to torch the oils was just an expression of intense affection for the masterpieces. Saito died in 1996.

Vincent van Gogh actually painted two versions of Dr Gachet's portrait with a slightly different color scheme. The other version is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

5. Bal Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

($78,000,000)

Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. There are two versions of this painting with the same name: the larger one is located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, while the smaller version was sold on May 17, 1990 for $78 million at Sotheby's in New York to Ryoei Saito, who bought it together with the Portrait of Dr Gachet.

Bal au moulin de la Galette was also in danger to be cremated with Saito together with the van Gogh's painting.

6. Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens

($76,700,000)

This painting by Peter Paul Rubens, painted in 1611, is the oldest painting in this list. It was sold to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for
£49.5 million ($76.7 million) on July 10, 2002 at Sotheby's auction.

7. Portrait de l'Artiste sans Barbe by Vincent van Gogh

($71,500,000)

Portrait de l'artiste sans barbe ("Self-portrait without beard") s one of many self-portraits by the Dutch painte Vincent van Gogh, that he painted in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in September 1889. The painting is a oil painting on canvas and is 40 cm x 31 cm (16" x 13").

Van Gogh painted this just after he had shaved himself. This is an uncommon painting since his other self-portraits show him with a beard. It becomes one of the most expensive paintings of all time when it was

sold for $71.5 million on November 19, 1998 at Christie's, New York.

8. Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier by Paul Cézanne

($60,500,000)

Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier painting b Paul Cézanne was painted in 1893-1894. Cézanne was famous for drawing still lifes such as this, which expressed deep feelings though still based itself upon reality.

This painting was sold for $60.5 million at Sotheby's New York on May 10, 1999 to "The Whitneys", one of America's wealthiest families.

9.Femme aux Bras Croisés by Pablo Picasso

($55,000,000)

Painted in 1901, Femme aux Bras Croises was part of Picasso's famous Blue Period, a dark, sad time in the artist's life. The beautiful & various tones of blue are typical. The painting depicts a woman with her arms crossed staring at the endless nothing.

Femme aux Bras Croisés was sold for $55,000,000 November 8, 2000, at Christie's Rockefeller in New York City.

10. Irises by Vincent Van Gogh

($53,900,000)

Irises is a painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, painted while he was at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France in the last year before his death in 1890.

In 1987, it became the most expensive painting ever sold when it was sold for AUS $54,000,000 to Alan Bond, but he did not have enough money to pay for it and it had to be re-sold. It is now owned by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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