I have not seen this one up for sale before; the King of Coins image by Salvador Dali … of Salvador Dali as the King of Coins.
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….
Golly, this is one for those with very deep pockets! A set of 23 tarot cards (all the Majors plus a Significator, possibly?) that are up for sale at the moment here.
This collection of cards is called The Makarevich Tarot. The lot also comprises of a cover sheet and are presented in a silk covered hard case, each mounted on paper; 14 signed, some with initials, and nine dated 1994 and one 1995.
Each card ink and watercolour, and cover sheet ž ink on paper, 22 cards measuring approximately 20 by 13 cm, one 21 by 17 cm, and cover sheet 12 by 15 cm (each image size).
The present owner acquired the cards directly from the artist in 1998.
Sit down for this one: They are expected to fetch between £5,000 and £7,000!
The cards are by Georgian-born Igor Makarevich (born 1943 – still with us!). Makarevich is a photographer and conceptual artist who studied at Moscow Art School as well as the Moscow Institute of Cinematography and in 2012 was awarded for “the Creative Contribution to the Development of the Contemporary Art”.
Lives and works in Moscow.
Auction date is 6 June.
So, start saving up!
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….
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| William Senior Woman with Tarot Cards |
Not done one of these for a while and this is an actual live auction piece, so if you fancy it, get bidding!
This is up for auction in Edinburgh and is expected to make £300 – £500. Unfortunately, you can’t bid for it online, but if you happen to be in Edinburgh on 26 April at Lyon and Turnbull, you can bid!
The author, William Senior, was born in 1927. I think that he was Scottish, but other than that, don’t have a heck of a lot of information about him. He was a member of the New Scottish Group of artists who were left-wingers influenced by contemporary continental art. He set up the Clyde Group with Tom MacDonald and Bet Lowe.
I do like the painting though. That is probably The Hanged Man on the top of the pile, but because this is a blog about court cards, I’m going to plead ignorance and say that it’s a court card.
***EDIT*** 1/5/17 – failed to sell (didn’t reach initial price)
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….
Has your biro just burst in your handbag?
What about splashing out on this as a replacement?
This is a fountain pen from the pen people at Visconti.
To mark the creation of Lo Scarabeo’s Visconti Sforza Tarot deck, they created four designs from the Visconti Tarot for very limited edition pens (each has a run of 78 – what else?!)
Visconti commissioned artist, Soukou Oshita, who is an expert in Maki-e artwork (where images are created from sprinkled precious metals, no less!) to turn some of the Major Arcana images into artwork for the pens.
It has an 18 kt pen nib and a double resevoir. If you’re thinking of replacing that Biro.
These Visconti folks undoubtedly create magnificent artworks. Visit their site and FEAST YOUR EYES, people!
Their pens have been used, for example, to sign the NATO-Russia Summit in 2002, which marked the end of the Cold War and Visconti pens were also presented to the 25 signatories of the European Constitution in 2005. See? Classy.
But you will STILL absent-mindedly leave it lying on the counter in the bank……..
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| Soukou Oshita at work |
The topmost image depicts the Chariot and Wheel, but you can check out the others here.
Fancy it? Well, just mortgage the children for £9,800 and one of these really gorgeous pens can be yours! *wonders whether she should ask for one to use as a promotional item and decides that the answer will be hysterical laughter*
OR
You could just buy a copy of the Visconti Sforza deck and a packet of Bic Crystals and spend the rest on a luffly holiday!
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….
We find ourselves in a kitchen where a young woman stretches out on a chair as the Tarot card reader explores her fortune. It’s funny, isn’t it? No matter how many centuries separate us, the pose for expansive day-dreaming remains unchanged!
This particular illustration of Tarot in art is by an unknown artist (well, there is a very indistinct signature down in the right corner, apparently). It dates back to the 1800s and was sold at Christies in New York for £1,500.
I wonder what the Tarotist is telling her – perhaps how strong and handsome will be her husband? How happy they will be – will he bring her lots of money and fine things? Or lots of glorious children to hug and kiss? Is that an empty bread basked lying on the floor behind her? A pot boiling un-watched on the stove? Is she neglecting her household chores in favour of a day dream?!
And what of her card-reading friend? They do say that one of the signs of lying is fiddling with your ears – what is she doing with that right hand as she points to the cards with her left?
I think of Cinderella dreaming in the kitchen when I see this image, what about you?
I can’t zoom in on any of the detail of the painting (and, of course, I am typing without my specs on – oh vanity, you are a terrible mistress!) but if YOU can, I’d love to know what else we can see in the painting?
Stop being confused by court cards! Start being excited by the possibilities! Become a court card adventurer along with me 🙂 The Tarot’s Court Cards are my specialist area. They talk to me. Not LITERALLY though ….