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The Fascination of Flaming June
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ^ | August 23, 2023 | Alison Hokanson, Assistant Curator, Department of European Paintings

Posted on 06/01/2025 5:39:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Flaming June triumphed at exhibition in 1895, but its moment in the sun was short. Leighton's death the following year heralded the end of an era. As Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and abstraction gained prominence in Europe and the United States, the artistic vision that he proposed came to be seen by many curators, scholars, and critics as outmoded and sentimental. Flaming June seemed superficial and vapid, an invocation of sensibilities that no longer rang true; the painting fell into obscurity. We do not know where it was from 1930 until 1962, when it resurfaced on the art market without its original frame. The painting was bought from London dealer Jeremy Maas by Luis A. Ferré in 1963, for £2,000, or about $5,600. By comparison, Cézanne's Bathers, now at The Met, sold the same year for $105,000.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: art; epigraphyandlanguage; flamingjune; fredericleighton; godsgravesglyphs
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The Fascination of Flaming June | Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity. | Alison Hokanson | August 23, 2023 | 6 min. read

1 posted on 06/01/2025 5:39:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2 posted on 06/01/2025 5:41:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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3 posted on 06/01/2025 5:42:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Now we have LGBTQ month .... flaming June


4 posted on 06/01/2025 5:46:19 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: SunkenCiv

Wow, what an incredible painting! I’ve never seen it before nor even heard of it before. It raises so many different musings. Even the name is mysterious and evocative. Why is the pretty young lass in the beautiful diaphanous “dress”? Why did she fall asleep.? Is she actually asleep or just closing her eyes? What is she pondering? Is her name “Flaming June”? Or is it a flaming hot June afternoon?

And how did the artist paint that fabric with all the folds, creases and texture with the hint of her skin beneath?

Thanks for posting!


5 posted on 06/01/2025 5:52:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: ghost of nixon

The “L” is actually for Leighton. /s


6 posted on 06/01/2025 5:53:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It ain’t no soup can.


7 posted on 06/01/2025 5:53:28 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes, it is beautiful.


8 posted on 06/01/2025 6:05:40 AM PDT by wintertime ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It’s a longtime fave here. Waterhouse’s “My Sweet Rose” (it has several titles I think) is another.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/John_William_Waterhouse_-_The_Soul_of_the_Rose%2C_aka_My_Sweet_Rose.JPG


9 posted on 06/01/2025 6:19:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CKS/2007_CKS_07417_0041_000(021510).jpg?mode=max


10 posted on 06/01/2025 6:22:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Flaming June seemed superficial and vapid

I wonder how much of the modern art movement is nothing more than a century-plus long case of sour grapes about photography. Lots of artists made a living painting portraits for people. Once photography came, the middle and upper middle classes saw it was far cheaper and almost as good to get a photo. Boom, the art business is gone. No town portrait painter, no art schools and apprenticeships for trainee artists, and no more realism seen as the ideal because realism is what destroyed them. Realism is scoffed at as "superficial and vapid" while a single red square on a canvas is worshipped as true art.

11 posted on 06/01/2025 6:57:31 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

LOL


12 posted on 06/01/2025 7:14:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: KarlInOhio
I wholeheartedly agree.

13 posted on 06/01/2025 7:14:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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The Finding of Moses | Fred Ross | 2010 [Alma-Tadema] 
Sotheby's
Sotheby's

14 posted on 06/01/2025 7:30:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: ghost of nixon

A woman’s giant butt and thighs, with a man’s big foot. The only thing fascinating is all that is topped with an out of proportioned tiny man’s head. Unless that is the joke in the painting. I wouldn’t give 2 cents for it.


15 posted on 06/01/2025 8:54:40 AM PDT by bgill
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To: KarlInOhio

Those are very good insights into how the invention of photography impacted art and related businesses. It sure led to the rise of horrifically bad “art” by no-talent people (cannot call them “artists”).


16 posted on 06/01/2025 9:04:51 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“ It ain’t no soup can.”

Heh, heh. Indeed.


17 posted on 06/01/2025 9:08:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: SunkenCiv

I love Leighton. He did some nice bible illustrations that I have used on the Jerusalem Thread.

His heightened realism and detai, combined with a dreamy romanticism, is very appealing to me. :-)


18 posted on 06/01/2025 9:28:06 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: ghost of nixon

My FB profile wallpaper is, as usual, currently a bowl of rainbow colored Froot Loops.

Let’s see if the mods catch it this time.


19 posted on 06/01/2025 9:44:06 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: left that other site

And he left over 550 paintings (the AI sez 568).


20 posted on 06/01/2025 10:09:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The best thing about a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.)
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