@EdwardLuper

Chinese art specialist at Bonhams | Artist & ceramic designer exploring Chinese and Japanese art, antiques and modernity | Ukiyo-e, porcelain & curious things

 London
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Joined March 2013
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One of my personal favourites, inspired by a Japanese hi-ire with Dutchmen, but replaced with my favourite nostalgic Lego pirate figures. #lego #ceramics #art #contemporaryceramics #japaneseart
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Cat-astrophe! 🏺 🐈 #Cats #Ceramics #ChineseArt #ContemporaryArt #Porcelain
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I’m delighted to announce my selling exhibition at Bonhams New Bond Street, 1–4 November, alongside the Fine Chinese Art previews. Hand-painted porcelain inspired by Chinese and Japanese art, reimagined for today. #Ceramics #ChineseArt #JapaneseArt
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Cat and Cricket, mineral pigment on gold leaf and washi paper mounted on wood panel. On view @royalacademy summer exhibition #summerexhibition #royalacademy #cat #catart #art
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024: Celebrating a Milestone

So it finally happened! after years of trying, my painting finally got accepted into the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition 2024. Getting in is extremely competitive, with only about 5% of...

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As a former BBC journalist it gives me no pleasure to say that BBC Arabic is a stain on BBC News. It’s beyond shameful that scandals like this keep happening. Are @BBCArabic managers asleep at the wheel?
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BBC plunged into new bias row after journalists behind damning report accusing Israeli soldiers of beating and humiliating medics 'like' videos celebrating Hamas terror attacks trib.al/K4WE1dF
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this is absolutely unconscionable – at Briarcliff Manor, NY
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The BBC has banned Jewish staff from marching against antisemitism. Yes, really. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11…

BBC bans Jewish staff from marching against anti-Semitism

Journalists seeking permission to attend London demonstration told to consult corporation’s impartiality guidelines

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Downing Street lit up in the Israeli flag this evening. 🇮🇱
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Some musings on the yellow patch of wall in Vermeer’s painting and what makes it like “a precious work of Chinese art” for Proust. #proust #chineseart #art #chinese edwardluperart.com/post/prou…

Proust and Chinese Art

In a previous blog post I discussed the influence of Japanese prints on Proust. As a specialist of Chinese art at an auction house however, I came across several refences to Proust's own collection...

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Bonhams’ specialists offer their own artworks at auction antiquestradegazette.com/new…
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Proust and Japanese Prints

The French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922), author of In Search of Lost Time (A la recherché du temps perdu) was an intensely visual writer, deeply interested in paintings and the arts in general....

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I’m delighted to collaborate with CASETiFY and release my designs of cats with them: casetify.com/id_ID/edwardlup… #casetify #cats #art
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Face to Face with Hokusai's Self Portrait

I was fortunate enough while passing through Leiden, Holland, to be given special access to the Volkekunde Museum (the National Museum of Ethnology). When the curator asked me what was it exactly I...

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36 Views of the BT Tower: Kites of Primrose Hill and Fukuroi

As manager of my own website, I can tell from online traffic which designs are more popular than others. Sometimes I understand why a design is popular or not, but sometimes I don't. In this post I...

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Failure and Creativity: Some Things I Got Wrong

Around the end of the year, many people like to look back and measure their stages of development with their achievements. I do this too, but I realised I wouldn't have made those achievements...

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36 Views of the BT Tower: Fireworks on the Thames and Sumida Rivers

As we approach the New Year, I felt it was appropriate to discuss my design of new year fireworks on the Thames and Hiroshige's (1797–1858) 'Fireworks at Ryogoku' (1858) which inspired it. While the...

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Some Ramblings On Creativity

As an artist I don't really think about creativity until I'm going through some sort of block. On days when the inspiration seems to slow (and this happens to everyone), you might be in the shower...

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My new aquatint etching based on a 17th century blue and white dish showing a scene from “Peony Pavilion”
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The 'Lover's Dream'

"Some will say they do not wish to dream their lives away. As if life itself were not a dream, a very real dream from which there is no awakening. We pass from one state of dream to another: from the...

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Foujita's Feline Friends

Foujita is most famous for his paintings of nudes and cats. Indeed, it's his paintings of cats that drew me to him the most. My other artistic hero, Hokusai, complained once that he couldn't draw a...

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