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Frederic Lere
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Artist, painter, lives in New York and the Loire Valley.
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Queen Elisabeth the First visits Marguerite de France in the Possonnière Manor. They will be able to chat for one month, most likely about Ronsard… Closing/finissage: Sunday September 21, 2025. La Possonnière, Couture sur Loir, France #bsky.art #elizabeth1st #portraitsdansmabibliotheque #art
September 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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NYC art in a French country home: Did “Meat Market Crossing” find its ideal location between the two linden trees on the terrace and the two windows in the living room? An almost perfect symmetry… huile sur toile, Oil on canvas, 71x76 cm, 28x30 “, 2024. #meatpackingdistrict #art #bsky.art
Pokemon-inspired sculptures by artist Arsham were installed in front of the Standard Hotel in the New York Meat Packing District in 2024.
July 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Cicada and ant, based on La Fontaine’s fable. Spoiler alert, not sure the cicada will survive winter… Cicada: paper, white gesso, ballpoint. Ant: wood, oil paint, 2025. #fablesdelafontaine #lacigaleetlafourmi #fredericlere #art #bsky.art
May 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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10 portraits with 10 related curiosity objects: Happy to share my imaginary library in the manoir de la Possonnière, Couture sur Loir, France. The portraits are real, as are the curiosity objects. #art #bsky.art
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May 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Seen @metmuseum an enamel by a mysterious « Master of the Aeneid » describing the Trojan war. Is New York a new Troy?The Whitney model isn’t fazed by the Fury standing on top of the Mima building. «New Troy», #oiloncanvas 2025 21x29“ 53x73cm. #metropolitanmuseumofart #whitneymuseum #bsky.art
April 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Due to constant pounding outside my window, I visit the Met Museum’s Friedrich exhibition to find serene art. No escape, it reminds me so much of the daily excavation next door. “Friedrich Tunnel”, #oiloncanvas, 2025, 29x21” 73x53cm. More on ALT. #caspardavidfriedrich #messageintree #art #bsky.art
Caspar David Friedrich 200 years ago showed us an old world disappearing in a cave in Harz, two ghosts standing above the cave. Today, filled with nostalgia, some romanticize a return to chaos. Machines dig my neighborhood, engulfing it into a world of fear. And bury that romanticism real deep.
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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November 6, 1626, Manahahtàanung was sold to Peter Minuit by the Lenape people for 400 years of devastation, disease, war, forced removal, oppression, murder, division, suicide… #oiloncanvas, 2025, 29x21”, 73x53cm. More on ALT. #manhattan #peterminuit #messageintree #bsky.art @bsky.art #lenape
“On November 6, 1626, the island of Manahahtàanung “the place we’re gathering wood to make bows”, was sold to the Shuwankook. “The salty people” brought 400 years of devastation, disease, war, forced removal, oppression, murder, division, suicide, and generational trauma for the Lenape people.” From a proclamation by today’s Lenape leaders refuting the “Schagen Letter”, in which Pieter Schagen, a Dutch government official, announced to the West India Company Directors the purchase of Manhattan by Peter Minuit.
March 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Dark times. Witch-Hazels brightened my way to the Met Museum… But there, El Greco’s Vision of Saint John brought me back to reality. “Does Witch-Hazel also bloom in blue?”, #oiloncanvas, 2025, 29x21“, 73x53 cm. More on ALT. #standwithukraine #elgreco #messageintree #apocalypse
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March 2025, the first shrub to flower in Central Park is witch-hazel. Close by, the Metropolitan Museum displays El Greco's unfinished vision of Apocalypse, one of his last paintings. Across from the Museum, the Ukrainian Institute of America showcases its people's survival. Does witch-hazel also bloom in blue?
March 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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The Beach at Day’s End, in front of the Whitney Museum. A skeleton structure designed by David Hammons evokes the waterfront ghosts. Longshoremen are gone, who’s next? More on ALT. #Oiloncanvas, 2025, 29x21“, 73x53cm. @bsky.art #bsky.art #whitneymuseum #messageintree #davidhammons #hudsonriverpark
In 2021, David Hammons built a skeleton, inspired by the 1975 Gordon Matta-Clark destruction of the ghostly waterfront Pier 52. Visions of Christo’s Central Park gates: after 20 years, the gates now appear on my phone as I walk where they once stood, real people walking through virtual gates. The gates flicker and, like ghost, disappear. At Day’s End beach, the roles are reversed: a real skeleton faces the longshoremen’s ghosts . Today’s beach is built as a ruin. Like the gates and the longshoremen, we will go colored in saffron.
March 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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La Malinche, 1489-1528, was sold by her brother to a Maya cacique who gave her to the conquistador Hernán Cortés. As his interpreter and adviser, she helped him annihilate the Aztec Empire. #oilpainting, 12x12”, 2025. #lamalinche #hernancortes #portraitsdansmabibliotheque @bsky.art #bsky.art
She was born in a noble Nahua family on the gulf coast, sold by her brother to a Maya cacique who gave her to the conquistador Hernán Cortés who shared the same enemy, the Aztec Empire. As his interpreter and adviser, she helped him vanquish the 7 lords of the Tenochtitlan region. He was so proud of this accomplishment that he had his coat of arms encircled by a chain bounding the 7 lords’ heads. I imagine he could have made a necklace with that chain and offered it to La Malinche.
March 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Hernán Cortés, 1485 - 1547, Conquistador of the Aztec Empire. Emperor Charles V awarded him a coat of arms featuring a locked chain bounding the seven lords he defeated. That chain says it all. #oilpainting, 2025, 12x12”. @bsky.art #bsky.art #hernancortes #oilpainting #portraitsdansmabibliotheque
Hernán Cortés, 1485 - 1547, Conquistador. Initiated the Spanish colonization of the Americas with the conquest of the Aztec Empire. Emperor Charles V awarded him the title of marqués del Valle de Oaxaca. His coat of arms features the central shield encircled by a locked chain bounding the seven lords he defeated during the conquest of Tenochtitlan. That chain says it all.
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A new series, message in trees. I planted two trees in front of the Metropolitan Community Church, 446 W 36th Street. Lots of redevelopment there. To read what’s written on the trees check ALT text. #oilpainting 2025, 24x38” #metropolitancommunitychurch #bsky.art #messageintree @bsky.art
« The Metropolitan Community Church of New York, a church of LGBTQI people and allies, was founded in 1972 by Howard Wells and by Troy Perry, who was the first to perform same sex marriages and co-founded the first ever LGBTQ Pride Parade. Rev. Perry was invited to the White House by three American presidents. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter’s administration invited Rev. Perry to discuss gay and lesbian rights. In the 1990’s, President Bill Clinton appointed Rev. Perry as an official delegate to the White House Conference on Hate Crimes and the White House Conference on AIDS. In 2009, President Barack Obama invited Rev. Perry to the White House for the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall Riots. LIVE OUT LOUD. »
February 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Nicolas Martiau, 1591–1657. With face of George Washington, his descendant. Companion piece, a folding yard stick compliments of the Virginia Company of London, his employer. Oil on wood, 18 x 0.75 x 0.5 inches, unfolded, 2025. #portraitsdansmabibliotheque #bsky.art @bsky.art #oilpainting
The folding yard stick is a companion piece, compliments of the Virginia Company of London, that employed Martiau as a military engineer. Ok, I took some liberties here: the yard measure was only adopted in 1893 and standardized in 1959. #nicolasmartiau #jamestown #yard
February 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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November 5, 1626, Manahahtàanung (the place we’re gathering wood to make bows) was sold to the Shuwankook (the salty people), bringing 400 years of devastation and war for the Lenape people. #manhattan #peterminuit #lenapehoking #bsky.art #oiloncanvas 2025, 29 x 21 inches, 73 x 53 cm. @bsky.art
On November 5, 1626, the island of Manahahtàanung “the place we’re gathering wood to make bows”, was sold to the Shuwankook. “The salty people” brought 400 years of devastation, disease, war, forced removal, oppression, murder, division, suicide, and generational trauma for the Lenape people.” From a proclamation by today’s Lenape leaders refuting the “Schagen Letter”, in which Pieter Schagen, a Dutch government official, announced to the West India Company Directors the purchase of Manhattan by Peter Minuit.
February 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Portrait of Christophe Plantin, 1520-1589. Born in St-Avertin, France, established his publishing house in Antwerp. Today a UNESCO World Heritage Site. #oilpainting after Rubens. Oil on canvas, 2024, 24x38”.
#portraitsdansmabibliotheque @bsky.art #bsky.art #christopheplantin #plantinmoretusmuseum
February 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Christophe Plantin, 1520-1589, established his publishing house in Antwerp. Title pages of Plantin Press used a compass vignette with the motto “Labore and Constantia”. Oil on wood, 2025, 11 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches.
#portraitsdansmabibliotheque @bsky.art #bsky.art #christopheplantin #plantinmoretusmuseum
February 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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La Malinche, a traitor to her people as interpreter/lover to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés? The Moctezuma Palace is behind her next to an Aztec temple. Oil on canvas, 38 x 24 inches, huile sur toile, 96 x 60 cm, 2025. @bsky.art #portraitsdansmabibliotheque #malinche #mexico #bsky.art
February 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It takes more than a village to reach to the stars. To help Ptolemy, Einstein and Montgolfier, I found the model of a rocket in Hergé’s Tintin. Oil on wood, 12.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 inches, huile sur bois, 32 x 16 x 16 cm, 2025. #herge #tintin #bsky.art #portraitsdansmabibliotheque @bsky.art
January 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Nicolas Martiau: born on Ré Island, France, he fled religious persecution to England and arrived in 1620 in Jamestown, Virginia. Earliest American ancestor of George Washington. Oil on canvas, 38 x 24 inches, 96 x 61 cm, 2025. #nicolasmartiau #huguenot #powatan #jamestown #fredericlere
January 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This 2015 watercolor of Edmund Pettus Bridge marked the 50th anniversary of the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery. Martin Luther King Jr. led the March, which started from the bridge. #selma #civilrights #MartinLutherKingJr #pettusbridge #mlk #mlkday #fredericlere
January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The scrumptious “Nana”, wood reinterpretation of discoveries made by Jean de Léry in the short-lived French Antartica settlement in 1556. Oil-painted plywood cutout, 11 x 9 x 5 inches, 2025. #jeandeléry #franceantartique #fortcoligny #pineapple #ananas #riodejaneiro #ronsardlere #fredericlere
January 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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From another book project I worked on, back in 2018: the Lions’ Court at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. I painted over 50 watercolors to illustrate the “De Salomon à Soliman“ architecture history book. #arthistory #alhambradegranada #granadaspain #salomonsoliman #watercolor #fredericlere
January 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Working on an artist book and group show project: The Cicada and the Ant, a La Fontaine fable. The ant is getting there…
#thecicadaandtheant #lafontaine #woodcutouts #fredericlere
January 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Preview of coming attractions: Les Fourberies de Scapin, linocut illustration. #lesfourberiesdescapin #moliere #linocutprint #linogravure #fredericlere #scapinlere
January 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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3 panoramic views of New York City shown at the 2017 Talented Art Fair in London #nycartist #cityscapes #fredericlere
January 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM