Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of artists who have considered the pig.
France, (1604-1670) Circe obliging Ulysses and returning his companions to their original form (ndg.), sanguine (red oxide) over pencil on paper 5.3 x 7.3 in. (13.5 x 18.5 cm.) Musée du Louvre About the Artist Nicolas Prévost (1604-1670) was a French painter. He worked for the court of Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, who commissionned … Read more
Margaret Evans Price, United States (1888-1973), works include: Circe, The Old Woman and her Pig, The Three Little Pigs. Price was a children’s book illustrator and author, entrepreneur and toy designer. She also co-founded the Fisher-Price toy company with her husband, Irving Price and Herman G. Fisher.
Anonymous – Germany, 16th-19th cent. Pugna Porcorum (c. 1831), woodcut approx. 2.5 x 4.4 in. (6.3 x 11.2 cm.) Section illustration from: Placentius, Johannes. “Pugna Porcorum per Publius Porcium Poëtam” in Nugae venales sive thesaurus ridendi et jocandi : ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres Melancholicorum conscriptos. Braunschweig: Waisenhaus, 1831. University of Michigan Library Publius Porcium, … Read more
Václav Jan Emanuel Radimský (aka: Vaclav Radimsky), Czech, (1867-1946), works include: The Pig. Radimský was an impressionist painter who resided in France in the late 19th through the first quarter of the 20th century. He met and painted with Monet and Pissarro. His work was highly influential on French impressionism.
Anonymous, France, (1885), works includes advertising posters for Raffin the Clown and his performing pigs and monkeys at the Folies Bergère and Folies Rambuteau.
Théophile Raynaud, French (1583-1663), works include: In Symbolicam S. Antonii magni Imaginem commentatio. Raynaud was an erudite French Jesuit theologian, teacher and a writer of great fertility.
United States (fl. 2010) Circe’s Fandango 2010) Editor’s Note: Red Queen’s Elf describes this work as: “I present… Circe’s Fandango! All profits from the sale of this work will be donated to help wildlife and animals in honor of my recovery from the swine flu. For a while there it was just me with a … Read more
Canada, (b. 1952) Circe [from the Magic series] oil on board 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.) About the Artist Duncan Regehr (b. 1952) is a Canadian writer, multimedia artist, and film and television actor. He studied painting first with his father, the painter Peter Regehr, then under Dutch Surrealist, Henry Poesiat. Also … Read more
Émile Auguste Renault, France, (1870-1938), works include: Famille de Bigoudens, Le Bigouden au cochon, Les petits dormeurs and Rue de Quimper. Renault was an engraver and illustrator and worked in pencil, pastels and dry point. He was also known as: Émile Malo Renault, Malo-Renault and Émile Renault.The frequent subjects of his work are feminine grace and the naivety children. He was also inspired his native St Malo and the people and landscapes of Breton.
United States, (1942-2002) The Flying Pig (1995), oil on canvas 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.) Pleasures of the Hearth #2 [part of a trio of paintings on the theme of being at home, being with your family, being with yourself] (1991), oil on canvas 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm.) … Read more