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Friday, January 25, 2013

Costliest, World-Most Expensive Chopard Watch: 201 Carats at $25 Million

Summary: The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch has 201 carats for $25 million since 2000 and a role on Elementary episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Chopard's $25 million, 201 carat luxury watch lends its fame as the world's most expensive watch to Elementary tv series' Leviathan episode (season 1 episode 10): tmco @timemerchantco, via Twitter Oct. 23, 2012

The costliest Chopard watch and the world-most expensive watch are one and the same in the first-year episode The Leviathan in the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television series Elementary Dec. 13, 2012.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny bring up only the carats and price for the costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch. They configure no images and no information other than a total of 201 carats in diamonds and of $25 million in cost to the Chopard customer. They do not divulge which division, whether ladies' wristwatches under Chopard co-president Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele or men's wristwatches under Chopard co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, designed the diamond-decorated watch.

Online-imaged examples exhibit in one all-color, top-viewed dimension the costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch never extracted for Elementary enthusiasts from Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) crime-scene box.

The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch features 201 carats in the form of 874 diamonds fit into flower and heart formations atop white and yellow gold.

One 11.36-carat D color (white) Flawless, 12.79-carat natural Fancy Blue VS2 and 15.37-carat natural Fancy Pink Internally Flawless heart-shaped diamond trio goes over the watch face. Twenty-six natural Fancy Intense Yellow pear-shaped, 48 natural Fancy Yellow round and 91 D color Flawless pear-shaped diamonds respectively have 17.07, 8.81 and 10.29 total carats. The fine gemmery, jewelry, timepiece collection wristwatch includes 60.94 carats as 260 white Flawless pear-shaped diamonds and 4.95 as 443 natural Fancy Intense Yellow FC diamonds.

A spring-loaded mechanism jumps the heart-shaped diamonds back, like opening petals, from the watch face, which juggles an 8.45-carat natural Fancy Intense Yellow pear-shaped diamond trio.

The second owners, Karl and Karin Scheufele, keep up, since 1963, Chopard family traditions of precision watchmaking since 1860 in Sonvilier and since 1937 in Geneva.

Paul-Louis Chopard (1859-1940), son of founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard (May 4, 1836-Jan. 30, 1915) and Laure Lida Marchand, launched the ladies' wristwatch division in Geneva in 1921. The Scheufele family maintains the ladies' accessory, fragrance, jewelry and wristwatch division under daughter Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele's co-presidency and the men's wristwatches under son Karl-Friedrich Scheufele's co-presidency. Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, in Chopard Maintains a Bold Outook for The New York Times April 17, 2009, noted Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele's co-presidency nurturing divisions beyond Chopard watchmaking traditions.

Gruosi-Scheufele observes that 60 percent of revenue from all Chopard product sales occurs in ladies' and men's wristwatch divisions and that jewelry divisions obtain 40 percent.

The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch perseveres in the fine gem, jewel and timepiece divisions where Gruosi-Scheufele, promotes Cannes Festival and Oscar ceremonial jewelry for stars.

The 150 animals that queued up in jewelry for 2010 qualify as special product lines that quantify 150 years of Chopard products in Switzerland since 1860. The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch realizes special status as the highest-priced wearable timepiece with the most high-grade diamonds, at an average of $27,777 per carat. Like Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in long-sleeved suits with John Varvatos boots, Joan selects minimal jewelry-friendly clothing, perhaps from sanctions against metal-wearing during surgery shifts.

The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch, outside Elementary, takes second-place behind Jaeger-LeCoultre's priceless Joaillerie 101 Manchette watch for Queen Elizabeth's 60th Diamond Jubilee Feb. 6, 2012.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) surprises Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) by joining her family dinner in CBS Elementary's Leviathan (season 1 episode 10): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Dec. 11, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/202391073219345

For further information:

"Chopard's History." Chopard > La Maison Chopard.
Available @ https://www.chopard.com/us/chopard-history/

Crouch, Christina. 2 December 2007. "$25 Million Dollar Watch from Chopard." SlashGear.
Available @ https://www.slashgear.com/25-million-dollar-watch-from-chopard-249184/

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661?msg=welcome_stranger

Elementary @CBSElementary. 11 December 2012. "Get ready to meet Watson's family in Thursday's all new Elementary: http://bit.ly/SOL9o9." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/202391073219345

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

"15 Most Expensive Wristwatches That Costs [sic] over 1 Million Dollar [sic]." TiptopWatches > Watch Facts > Sep. 20, 2010.
Available @ http://www.tiptopwatches.com/watch-facts/15-most-expensive-wristwatches-over-1million.html

Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia. 17 April 2009. "Chopard Maintains a Bold Outlook." The New York Times > Global Business > Spotlight.
Available @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/business/global/18iht-spot18.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 January 2013. “Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/chopard-watch-worth-25-million-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 January 2013. “Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/claude-monet-painting-nympheas-1918-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 January 2013. “Paul Cézanne Still Life Painting Fruit in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-cezanne-still-life-painting-fruit.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2012. “Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-signac-painting-women-at-well-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2012. “The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-van-gogh-pieta-painting-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 December 2012. “Edward Hopper Painting Western Motel in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/edward-hopper-painting-western-motel-in.html

"Timeline." Chopard > La Maison Chopard.
Available @ https://www.chopard.com/intl/

Friday, January 18, 2013

Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan

Summary: One thief extracts a Chopard watch and the Van Gogh Pietà, estimated at $25 million and at $50 million, in Elementary episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) can't believe that "I got on the subway with a Chopard watch" with "200 carats of diamonds" in a box as she assists Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in transporting recovered stolen art work and jewelry to Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) at the 11th Precinct.": Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 13, 2012

One Chopard watch and one Vincent van Gogh Pietà add $25 million and $50 million to estimated values of absconded coins and folios in Elementary series episode the Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny brandish no images of the Chopard watch in Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) loose-lidded box. Joan comments that "I can't believe I got on the subway with a Chopard watch" while Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) clutches a scrolled-up Van Gogh. Sherlock declares that "There are 200 carats of diamonds on that thing" and Joan decides that "I don't even want to know how much it costs."

Sherlock exempts himself from all orders and elaborates, "The watch is $25 million. The Pietà almost twice that, if recent auctions are anything to go by."

Peter Kent filched tetradrachm coins, Vincent van Gogh's (March 30, 183-July 29, 1890) painting Pietà ("Sorrow") and William Shakespeare's (April 23, 1564?-April 23, 1616) first folio.

Joan and Sherlock gather that the ailing philanthropist no longer goes out from the Kent Philanthropic Foundation as his criminal alter ego Le Chevalier ("The Cavalier"). Joan hands 11th Precinct Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) the boxed hoard even though Sherlock holds back the Pietà until he hauls in the Leviathan robbers. It is not up to viewers to imagine Greek money as coins and as cufflinks ideated by Peter Kent and identified by Sherlock in a photograph.

The Chopard watch juggles any number of bejeweled juxtapositions of gems, glass and metal into elegant, female- and male-specific, high-end, precise, signature, themed, timekeeping, wrist-worn jewelry.

Karl and Karin Scheufele kept the founding name when they purchased Chopard in 1963 from Paul-André Chopard, grandson of Louis-Ulysse Chopard (May 4, 1836-Jan. 30, 1915).

Paul-Louis located ladies wristwatches and pocket-watches from Sonvilier, where his father launched chronometers and pocket-watches in 1860, to Chaux-de-Fonds in 1921 and to Geneva in 1937. Scheufele, from Art Deco-modeled jewelry and timepiece family operations in Pforzheim, Germany, since 1904, made Meyrin operations center in 1974 and Fleurier manufacturing center in 1996. Daughter Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele and son Karl-Friedrich Scheufele netted the co-presidency while respectively directing ladies' accessories, fragrances, jewelry and wristwatches and mechanical movement manufacturing and men's wristwatches.

Chopard watch design and manufacturing offered the Happy Diamonds, Luna D'Oro calendar, Happy Sport and Mille Miglia ("Thousand Miles") collections in 1976, 1984, 1988 and 1993.

Montres Passion and Uhrenwelt magazines proclaimed the L.U.C 1860, first Chopard watch produced at the all-in-one manufacturing facility in Fleurier, watch of the year in 1997.

Precious-metaled, precious-stoned Cašmir and Pushkin, Imperiale, Ice Cube, Jacky Ickx and Haute Joaillerie and Horlogerie collections queued up in 1990, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Chopard realized 100 stand-alone stores worldwide and €550 million ($731.5 million) in sales, of which €250 million ($332.5 million) from watches in 2010, its 150th anniversary.

Kent shared nothing of his schemes with his family even though it seems likely that the Chopard watch originally sparkled on a female family member's wrist. Perhaps a Chopard watch turns Joan and Sherlock toward tracking Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele's £1 million ($1.57 million) 16.83-carat emerald ring taken in Hong Kong Sep. 8, 2011.

Among stolen art work recovered by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) is a Chopard watch adorned with "200 carats of diamonds" and valued at "$25 million" in Elementary tv series Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in 2012, Chopard claimed creation of the world's most expensive watch, with 201 carats and valued at $25 million: tmco @timemerchantco, via Twitter Oct. 23, 2012

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) can't believe that "I got on the subway with a Chopard watch" with "200 carats of diamonds" in a box as she assists Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in transporting recovered stolen art work and jewelry to Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) at the 11th Precinct.: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 13, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/202943863164066

"Chopard's History." Chopard > La Maison Chopard.
Available @ https://www.chopard.com/us/chopard-history/

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661?msg=welcome_stranger

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 September 2012. "Are Lesser Clovers Sherlock's Lucky Shamrocks on Elementary's Pilot?" Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-lesser-clovers-sherlocks-lucky.html

Miller, Daniel. 19 January 2012. "The Woman Who Left £1M Emerald and Diamond Ring in Hotel Bathroom After Taking It Off to Wash Her Hands." Daily Mail > News.
Available @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088423/Hong-Kong-police-hunt-1million-emerald-ring-owner-leaves-hotel-bathroom.html

Nikolas, Katerina. 19 January 2012. "Police hunt for €1 Million Emerald Millionairess Left in Bathroom." Digital Journal > News > World.
Available @ http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318128

Parry, Hazel. 18 January 2012. "Chopard Head Loses 1.5Million Dollar Ring." Sowetan Live > News > World.
Available @ https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/world/2012-01-18-chopard-head-loses-15million-dollar-ring/

Friday, January 11, 2013

Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan

Summary: The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 hangs diagonally from a cheap copy of stolen art in the Elementary series episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Nympheas (1918 oil on canvas) by French Impressionist painter Oscar-Claude Monet (Nov 14, 1840-Dec 05, 1926); private collection: Public Domain, via WikiArt

The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 appears Dec. 13, 2012, in-between two legal acquisitions and somewhat across from stolen artwork in the Leviathan episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny back the Monet into a corner between an original Hopper and an original Signac. The cheap $40 lithographed copy that confronts the celebrated trio and the Cézanne on the other side of the entry confuses Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). Sherlock departs with a masterpiece, diverted decades ago from the Aster Museum of Modern Art, after discerning Vincent van Gogh's Pietà ("Sorrow") under the decoy lithograph.

The Aster Museum of Modern Art and the Kent Philanthropic Foundation in New York City exist only in the film script for Elementary series episode 10.

Museums in Amsterdam or Vatican City, New Haven, Paris and Saint Petersburg respectively feature the Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Paul Signac and Paul Cézanne paintings.

The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 gets the title Nympheas at Giverny, 1918, and graces the walls of an unidentified private collection at an unspecified location. The Bridgeman Art Library has photographic rights to an image of the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 on the Public Broadcasting Service's PBS Learning Media site. The Bridgeman Art Library and the Elementary episode The Leviathan images indicate colors dissimilar, and content similar, to some widely imaged paintings in the 250-painting series.

Nympheas 1908, in a private collection in German-speaking, northeast Switzerland at St. Gallen, joins the Claude Monet Nympheas 1918 in jumbling gray, green and purple impressions.

The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 keeps water black, gray and green, water lily blossoms white and yellow and water lily pads gray, green and purple.

Nympheas 1908 looks like the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 in locating more water lily pads in denser clusters to the right and to the top. The 90- by 92-centimeter (35.43- by 36.22-inch) St. Gallen oil on canvas mingles gray, green, purple water, gray, green, white pads and red, white, yellow blossoms. The Toledo Museum of Art in the Old West End of Toledo, Ohio, netted the 200- by 213-centimeter (78.74- by 85.86-inch) Nympheas 1922 (Water Lilies 1922).

Toledo's oil on canvas offers black-gray-green-purple water, gray-green pads and red-white-yellow blossoms occurring more like St. Gallen's Nympheas 1908 than the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918.

Claude Monet (Nov. 14, 1840-Dec. 5, 1926) practiced Impressionism in perceiving nature and purchased property in northern France at Giverny, where he preferred to paint water-scapes.

Egyptian and South American cultivars and local water lilies in the Nymphaea genus qualified as quintessential features in Monet's water gardens and, after 1899, painted garden-scapes. Research released by the University of Ilorin Chemistry Department in Nigeria in 2011 reveals that Nymphaeas remove heavy metals such as cadmium, iron, lead and zinc. Garden experts Peter Himmelhuber and Greg and Sue Speichert suggest that water lilies sustain such beneficial animals as clams, damselflies, dragonflies, fish, frogs, mussels and turtles.

Perhaps the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 turns up to tell Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) to trust transient impressions as Sherlock thrusts her deeper into detection.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

French Impressionist painter founder Oscar-Claude Monet's Nympheas (1918 oil on canvas) fictitiously hangs in retired art thief Le Chevalier's philanthropic foundation in Elementary tv series' Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in real life, Monet's painting of water lilies belongs to a private collector: Public Domain, via WikiArt @ https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/water-lilies-1917-8

Complexities of solving the cracking of the seemingly uncrackable, sophisticated Leviathan bank vault draw Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) deeper into Sherlock Holmes's (Jonny Lee Miller) deductive world as she expands her sober companionship with him to detective work: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 12, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/202729753185477/

For further information:

Himmelhuber, Peter. 2009. Water Gardens & Natural Pools: Design & Construction. Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.

"Nympheas at Giverny, 1918." PBC Learning Media.
Available @ https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/xir159301fre/nympheas-at-giverny-1918-xir159301-fre/#.WqA1uujwaUk

Shuaibu, Usman O.A.; and Nasiru, Abdus-Salam. 2011. "Phytoremediation of Trace Metals in Shadawanka Stream of Bauchi Metropolis, Nigeria." Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology 1(2): 176-181.
Available @ http://www.environmentaljournal.org/1-2/ujert-1-2-10.pdf

Speichert, Greg and Sue. 2001. Ortho's All About Water Gardening. Des Moines IA: Meredith Books.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Paul Cézanne Still Life Painting Fruit in Elementary Series' Leviathan

Summary: The Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit prettify a room with a poor copy of a purloined van Gogh in the Elementary series episode The Leviathan.

Fruit (ca. 1879 oil on canvas) by French Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (Jan. 19, 1839-Oct. 22, 1906) numbers among fictitiously accumulated paintings in the collection of philanthropist Peter Kent, deduced by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) as retired art thief Le Chevalier, in Elementary tv series' Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in real life, St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum holds Cézanne's fruity still life: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra (dalbera), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

The Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit appears appropriately with originals, and inappropriately with a $40 lithograph, in the Leviathan episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary Dec. 13, 2012.

The oil on canvas from 1880 becomes part of the original wall art in the waiting room of the Kent Philanthropic Foundation in New York City. A $40 lithograph of Vincent van Gogh's (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) Pietà ("Sorrow") communicates cheap concealment amid legitimate originals to Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). It disguises a religious depiction diverted by Peter Kent during his dangerous, dishonest days as Le Chevalier ("The Cavalier") from the Aster Museum of Modern Art.

The exposure earns the originals eternal equivalence and the Pietà extraction back to the fictitious Aster, not to the actual Van Gogh Museum or Vatican Museums.

The State Hermitage Museum (Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж, Gosudárstvennyj Ermitáž) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, functions as the legal, non-fictitious home of the Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit.

State Hermitage Museum visitors get free admission December 7, for founding anniversary 1764 and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (287?-305?), and the first Thursday of every month. December 7 honors Catherine II (May 2, 1729-Nov. 1, 1796), Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias (July 9, 1762-Nov. 17, 1796) and museum founding collector. Three hundred and seventeen paintings from Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky (Nov. 21, 1710-Aug. 9, 1775), indebted, insolvent merchant from Konitz, Royal Prussia Chojnice, Poland), initiated museum collections.

The Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit joins other French Neoclassical, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in the State Hermitage Museum complex at Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya (Embankment), 34.

The State Hermitage Museum catalogue keeps a digital image and painting-related information about the 45- by 55.3-centimeter- (17.72- by 21.77-inch) oil on canvas from about 1879. It lists the Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit as located within the French paintings of the 19th-20th centuries subcollection in General Staff Building room 410.

The entry mentions that "The world of ordinary objects attracted the artist (Paul Cézanne, Jan. 19, 1839-Oct. 22, 1906) with the potential expressiveness of three-dimensional forms." It notes that "the theme recalls the still lives of the Old Masters, with its china, napkins and fruits" even though "Cezanne was indifferent to texture."

The Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit offers a berry- and leaf-patterned white bowl, bluish stoppered flask, bread, four orange-red and two yellow fruit, white napkins.

The State Hermitage Museum online catalogue entry presents the painter as "seeking to bring out in each element the concrete form and mass of the object."

Orderly placement, simple forms and "stable, unchanging" colors queue up in Cézanne's questing "not the passing moment but the expression of the permanent and the eternal." The entry recognizes eternity and permanence in the painter revealing the painting's "full significance," such as "the blue tinge suggesting a certain thickness to the air." It seeks the "strange unity" in forms that Sherlock seeks in pastimes, people and places for the means, motives and opportunities that start and stop criminals.

Perhaps director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny turn to the Paul Cézanne still life painting Fruit for deductive, observant permanence.

Life seems to still to total focus on the current bank vault case, with a trail of discovery leading to fictitiously collected art works, such as Paul Cézanne's Fruit; yet, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) finds time for a dinner invite to charm Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) mother and brother: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 17, 2012

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

"Cezanne, Paul. 1839-1906. Fruit." Hermitagemuseum.org > Digital Collection > Paintings.
Available @ https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.%20Paintings/28726/

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newsnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661?msg=welcome_stranger

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

Friday, December 28, 2012

Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan

Summary: The Paul Signac painting Women at the Well hangs with originals and with stolen art slumming as a lithograph in the Elementary series episode The Leviathan.

Former art thief Le Chevalier's collection includes French Neo-Impressionist pointilist painter Paul Signac's Femmes au Puits ("Women at the Well)") in Elementary tv series' Leviathan (season 1, episode 10); in real life, the pointilist painting hangs in Musée d'Orsay, Niveau supérieur, Salle 38, Paris, Île-de-France region, north central France; Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, 18:07:12: Sailko, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

The Paul Signac painting Women at the Well appears in a supportive role in The Leviathan episode of the first season in the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary Dec. 13, 2012.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny bring the seascape into a waiting room that bears a stolen masterpiece's lithographed likeness. A 20th-century Post-Impressionist-like lithograph, whose left side communicates blues and yellows like the 19th-century Neo-Impressionist painting leftward across the room, confuses Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). The $40 lithograph disguises one of two Pietà (Sorrow) depictions by Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) in 1889 and 1890 for his siblings.

The Van Gogh artwork, extracted by New York businessman Peter Kent as his earlier, evil alter ego Le Chevalier (The Cavalier), exits the original art-embellished room.

The tenth episode in the Elementary series fabricates provenance chains (legal custodies) for the Vincent van Gogh religious oil and for the "all original" wall art.

The Paul Signac painting Women at the Well instead gets the same-meaning French title, Femmes au puits, on wall space in the Musée d'Orsay ("Orsay Museum"). The Museum at 1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur on the Left Bank of the Seine houses architecture, decorative arts and photography collections, paintings and sculptures. It inhabits the Gare d'Orsay ("Orsay Station") ideated by Victor Laloux (Nov. 15, 1850-July 13, 1937) for the Exposition Universelle ("International Exhibition"), April 14-Nov. 12, 1900.

Françoise Cachin (May 8, 1936-Feb. 5, 2011) joined the Musée d'Orsay as director, 1986-1994, with the Orsay Museum's inauguration Dec. 1, and opening Dec. 9, 1986.

Art, history and music lovers in Paris know Cachin as bride of historian Pierre Nora, companion of musicologist Georges Liébert and mother of publisher Charlotte Liebert-Hellman.

Cachin looked after Musée d'Orsay collections, including the Paul Signac painting Women at the Well, as art historian, author, curator and granddaughter of the pointillist painter. Paul Victor Jules Signac (Nov. 11, 1863-Aug. 15, 1935) moved from architecture to Impressionism as an 18-year-old sailor around European coastlines and, in 1884, to Neo-Impressionism. He named, as muses, Édouard Manet (Jan. 23, 1832-April 30, 1883), Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-Feb. 13, 1883) and Émile Zola (April 2, 1840-Sep. 29, 1902).

The Paul Signac painting Women at the Well observes the painter's overriding orientation with Georges Pierre Seurat (Dec. 2, 1859-March 29, 1891) toward divisionist, pointillist Neo-Impressionism.

Divisionism pursues an optical mixture (mélange optique) through pointillism's patterning distinct, small points of color, not physically pre-mixed pigments, into images onto near-white or white canvases.

Landscapes, seascapes and urban-scapes queued up Neo-Impressionist subjects, epitomized by Seurat's Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte ("A Sunday on Grande Jatte Island"). Signac removed from his sketched In the Time of Anarchy (Au Temps d'anarchie) one woman raising water buckets, one resting on well rims and one retreating. Perhaps the 194.95- by 131.13-centimeter (76.75- by 51.63-inch) Paul Signac painting Women at the Well suggests John Watson (Lucy Liu) sallying away from Sherlock's scandalous threesomes.

Or perhaps the Paul Signac painting Women at the Well tarries in Elementary since divisionist, pointillist Neo-Impressionism deductively tenders points into wholes and science into art.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Spending "almost, what, 17 hours" in the Svalbard Diamond Exchange's compromised Leviathan vault begins the "rabbit hole" process by which Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) deduces suspects in Elementary tv series' Leviathan (season 1 episode 10): Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 13, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/202994626492323/

For further information:

Cachin, Françoise. 2000. Paul Signac. Paris, France: Gallimard.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London, England: Georges Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles, CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

Gignoux, Sabine. 7 February 2011. "Françoise Cachin, une grande voix de la culture s'éteint." La Croix > Culture > Actualité.
Available @ https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Actualite/Francoise-Cachin-une-grande-voix-de-la-culture-s-eteint-_NG_-2011-02-07-563120

Friday, December 21, 2012

The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan

Summary: The Van Gogh Pietà painting is found under a $40 lithograph and returned by Sherlock Holmes in Elementary series episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Pietà (left) by 19th century Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890), first (1889) of two (1890) inspired by 19th century French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix's (April 26, 1798-Aug. 13, 1863) 1850 Pietà (right):
van Gogh Pietà: The Yorck Project, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Delacroix Pietà: Art Gallery ErgsArt - by ErgSap (Art Gallery ErgsArt), Public Domain, via Flickr

The Van Gogh Pietà painting assists the plot in The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012, as stolen artwork in episode 10 of the first season in the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

Episode writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny brutally bring the basically blue-, green-, pink-, white-, yellow-brushed oil on canvas from museum into private collections. They consider Vincent van Gogh's (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) colorful composition a cherished component of the fictitious Aster Museum of Modern Art in New York. They deliver the dramatic depiction to New York-domiciled businessman Peter Kent who, as Le Chevalier (The Cavalier) during dark-hearted days, dabbled in dark-driven, daunting, devious derring-do.

Perhaps director Peter Werner enlists the Van Gogh Pietà painting to express elliptically another Mary's (Freda Foh Shen) empathy for her child, Joan Watson (Lucy Liu).

Van Gogh Museum visitors in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Vatican Museums visitors in Vatican City, Italy, find respective 1889 and 1890 versions of Pietà (After Delacroix).

Both versions get as venues the Saint-Paul Asylum (Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, "Saint Paul of [the] Mausoleum [Monastery]") in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Arles arrondissement, Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur region, southern France. The Van Gogh Museum has the 1889 version held by Vincent's brother, Theodorus van Gogh (May 1, 1857-Jan. 25, 1891), contemporary Dutch and French art dealer. Vatican Museums room 2 includes the 1890 version for Vincent's sister, Wilhelmina Jacoba van Gogh (March 16, 1862-May 17, 1941), National Exhibition of Women's Work organizer.

Online catalogues judge the Van Gogh Pietà painting duo as 73- by 60.5-centimeter (28.74- by 23.82-inch) and 47.5- by 34-centimeter (18.7- by 13.38-inch) oils from 1889-1890.

Size keeps the 1889 version likelier as The Leviathan's Van Gogh Pietà despite the New York diocese's donating the 1890 version to Vatican Museums in 1973.

Both versions lead viewers into blue-, gray-, green-, yellow-layered skies behind grassy blue-green and rocky red-brown grounds around and beneath a blue-cloaked, dressed and hooded Mary. The Van Gogh Pietà painting mingles blue, green and yellow for Christ's sheet and blue, green, pink and yellow for Christ's bared abdomen, arms and chest. Some viewers note resemblances between the red-bearded, red-headed Christ and Vincent whereas others notice similarities to Eugène Delacroix's (April 26, 1798-Aug. 13, 1863) original, smaller-headed model.

Both Van Gogh Pietà painting versions originate among the copies that Vincent offered himself of favorite works by favorite artists during his last years in France.

Vincent's copies pinpointed Émile Bernard, Virginie Breton, Honoré Daumier, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Doré, Keisai Eisen, Utagawa Hiroshige, Jacob Jordaens, Jean-François Millet and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.

One painting by Delacroix and one sketch by Rembrandt (July 15, 1606-Oct. 4, 1669) queue up as inspirations and models for Vincent's two most religious paintings. The Van Gogh Pietà painting reveals a mirror image of a black-and-white lithograph of a 35- by 27-centimeter (13.78- by 10.63-inch) oil on canvas from 1850. Delacroix's rough brushstrokes show a blue-dressed, red-cloaked, tan-hooded Mary behind a white-sheeted Christ's left shoulder against black-blue, gray-white skies above a brown, gray-green, rocky, somber landscape.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) turns over the Van Gogh Pietà painting after tackling Leviathan code-related transcripts "in the company of a masterpiece" of motherly love.

In CBS Elementary's "Leviathan" (season 1 episode 10), Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) oversees recovered jewelry while Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) quietly keeps recovered Vincent van Gogh Pietà in tube under his left arm, planning for its return to fictitious Aster Museum later rather than sooner: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 21, 2012

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Vincent van Gogh's Pietà (left), first (1889) of two (1890) inspired by 19th century French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix's 1850 Pietà (right):
van Gogh Pietà: The Yorck Project, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_Willem_van_Gogh_083.jpg
Delacroix Pietà: Art Gallery ErgsArt - by ErgSap (Art Gallery ErgsArt), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ergsart/22294463636/

In CBS Elementary's "Leviathan" (season 1 episode 10), Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) oversees recovered jewelry while Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) quietly keeps recovered Vincent van Gogh Pietà in tube under his left arm, planning for its return to fictitious Aster Museum later than than sooner: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 21, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/205135642944888

For further information:

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

"Pietà." Nasjonalmuseet > Collection > Explore Collection > Artists, Architects and Designers > D > Delacroix, Eugène.
Available @ http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/object/NG.M.01179

"Pietà (After Delacroix)." Van Gogh Museum > English > Meet Vincent > Explore the Collection > Vincent van Gogh.
Available @ https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0168V1962

"Vincent van Gogh, Pietà." Musei Vaticani > Collections > Museums > Collection of Contemporary Art > Room 2 Van Gogh Gauguin Medardo Rosso.
Available @ http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/collezione-d_arte-contemporanea/sala-2--van-gogh--gauguin--medardo-rosso/vincent-van-gogh--pieta.html

Friday, December 14, 2012

Edward Hopper Painting Western Motel in Elementary Series' Leviathan

Summary: The Edward Hopper painting Western Motel inspires Sherlock Holmes to solve a bank heist and an art theft in the Elementary series episode The Leviathan.

Western Motel (1957 oil on canvas) by American realist painter Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882-May 15, 1967); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, south central Connecticut; Friday, Sep. 19, 2008: mr.gian, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

The Edward Hopper painting Western Motel assists Dec. 13, 2012, in activating associational thinking and mental acumen in The Leviathan, the first season's 10th episode in the Columbia Broadcasting System series Elementary.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeney brandish the green-bedecked 20th-century icon on their fictionalized Kent Philanthropic Foundation's waiting room wall. Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) comment on financial capacities for collecting a Hopper original causes Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) to consider the opposite wall's $40 lithograph. The discordant decoration disguises Pietà, one of two depictions of the first of two known religious-themed portraits by Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 2, 1890).

Western Motel fictitiously enriches Kent Philanthropic interiors whereas Pietà, extracted during Peter Kent's escapades as Le Chevalier ("The Cavalier"), ends back among fictitious Aster Museum exhibitions.

The Elementary series episode The Leviathan fictionalizes provenance chains (legal custodies) of the Edward Hopper painting Western Motel and of the Vincent van Gogh oil Pietà.

Hopper's (July 22, 1882-May 15, 1967) 30.625- by 50.5-inch (77.79- by 128.27-centimeter) painting gets 37.25- by 57.25- by 3-inch (94.62- by 145.42- by 7.62-centimeter) framed measurements. It harkens to Hopper portfolio year 1957 and, as collector Stephen Carlton Clark's (Aug. 29, 1882-Sep. 17, 1960) bequest, to Yale University Art Gallery number 1961.18.32. The gallery's online identification under American paintings and sculpture indicates that "an anonymous motel bedroom becomes a symbol of the mobility and rootlessness of modern life."

It judges that "spare furnishings, stark interior, and sharp bands of light produce a composition of masterful simplicity, yet one that is layered with psychological ambiguity."

The Edward Hopper painting Western Motel keeps us from knowing why a blonde-haired, red-dressed, red-shoed woman "sitting across the room does not seem to see us."

Something solid blue lies loosely on the armchair even though "the pensiveness of her stare and her tense posture accentuate the sense of some impending event." Mysterious material that matches nothing inside the green-floored, green-walled, modern, red-furnished motel room and everything outside in the clear sky maybe masks messy sneezes or spills. It negates that "the luggage is packed, the room is devoid of personal objects, the bed is made, and a car is parked outside the window."

Perhaps The Leviathan episode writers offer the Edward Hopper painting Western Motel as an opportunity for Holmes and Watson to observe a crime about to occur.

Perhaps The Leviathan episode puts the Edward Hopper painting Western Motel in Holmes's and Watson's paths because of the parallels that they pose with the painter.

Hopper quit the family home in Nyack, New York, for residences fall through spring in Manhattan, New York, and spring through fall on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He resided for about six months of every year in South Truro and the other half-year at 3 Washington Square North in a brownstone building-filled neighborhood. He shared his life and work with wife Josephine Verstille Nivison (March 18, 1883-March 6, 1968), companion and muse somewhat similar, somewhat not, to Sherlock's Joan.

The Edward Hopper painting Western Motel turns up in The Leviathan episode perhaps as testimony to an impending crime, perhaps as tribute to brownstone-loving New Yorkers.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internets.

Image credits:

American realist painter Edward Hopper's Western Motel (1957 oil on canvas) fictitiously hangs in retired art thief Le Chevalier's philanthropic foundation in Elementary tv series' Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in real life, Western Motel is on view in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, south central Connecticut; Friday, Sep. 19, 2008: mr.gian, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrgian/6909808439/

The base of operations for deducing by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) is a historic New York brownstone owned by Sherlock's father; Holmes and Watson refer to their home/work base as "the brownstone": Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook May 16, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/151627901628996/

For further information:

"Artist: Edward Hopper, American, 1882-1967." Yale University Art Gallery > Collections > American Paintings and Sculpture.
Available @ https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52875

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Friday, Dec. 13, 2012.

Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne. New York NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography. New York NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2007.

Levin, Gail. Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist. New York NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.