INGRES {shot by Eoin Llewellyn}

Update 10/Feb/25: pre-order sales are now complete and product is ready to be purchased with immediate deliver. Limited to 20 copies.

{This is a PRE-ORDER, a link will be sent to the email you used at check-out on Monday 10th 12PM EST- 5PM GMT}
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Now, this album was a beautiful and crazy blast of a shoot.

From hunting the props and fabrics to working against the clock not to miss the very limited Irish sunlight.
But it won't be me who will tell you about the set this time, I'd instead leave you with words from the photographer, the amazing painter Eoin Llewellyn (www.llewellyn.ie), who as a skilful magician jumped to the Orientalism era and brought us a precious bit of it.
I hope you like it as much as I do.

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"In 2015 I travelled from Berlin to Madrid to see a show in the Prado (1) that many artists didn't know was happening. For the first time Ingres works were brought together to show his early progression through to the late works.

In this photoshoot I have not tried to recreate a particular Ingres painting. Instead I have tried to enter into the time of Ingres, France, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey 1800-1900.  The artist studio, their props and the use of natural light travelling through south facing windows travelling slowly over the silks and skin of the model revealing sensual lines and soft shadows undulating with the flesh. This recording of the powerful  presence of Vilidian within the lens of Ingres hopefully offers painters the chance to enter into this first state that Ingres would have entered into in his studio and then through his own unique vision he transformed these initial contours into quiet symphonies that suspend time.

Ingres distortion of the figure, the body's poetic contours defying the original reality gave way to a modern day Mannerism, a new reality. This vision transferred to Degas who was obsessed with Ingres. Degas' late pastel bathers (2) in essence are a continuation of Ingres' investigations into what the figure could be on a single plane. Ingres was misunderstood in his time; his works were often rejected as grotesque in their distortions and overtly sensual. But his bravery of vision led the way for numerous artists after him all connected by the fact that the artist could reshape the reality of the figure to their own ends.

This in turn gave way to Picasso, Matisse and finally Bacon. The lens shifting with the psyche of the time and each individual artist. 

Bacon said of Degas pastels- "I Love Degas. I think his pastel are among the greatest things ever made. I think they're far greater than his paintings." (3)

In some parts of the shoot we did try to pay homage to particular poses in paintings such as the Valpincon Bather 1808 Louvre. (4)

The Grand Odalisque, The Valpinçon and finally the Turkish Bath (5) all inspire these photos. The Turkish bath was the last work created by Ingres. It took 4 years and in the final year he changed it from a rectangle to its present design, a tondo (circle) repainting many areas of the work. The cumulation of all of Ingres' knowledge is in this work. The musicality of the composition, the worlds within worlds offer a portal through time and space defying the linen surface it lies upon.


1. https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/ingres/00e24782-cbd7-4f3e-af2b-46aa5a34d983

2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_a_Tub_(Degas)#Associated_works

3. https://eris.press/Only-Too-Much-is-Enough - Michael Peppiatt.

4. The Valpincon Bather ( Louvre)     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valpin%C3%A7on_Bather

5.The Turkish Bath (Louvre)      https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066606

Other works:

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065566

The Great Odalisque    (Louvre)  https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065566

Women's study sheet for Turkish Bath (Louvre)    https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl020026170

Woman with 3 arms study after Degas wife     https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres/women-with-three-arms

Eoin Llewellyn

~The album contains more than 130 photos~

5 environments with predominant natural light, endless delightful fabrics and props (feathers, vases, evocative old jewellery, colourful stained glass and golden trays, teapot...). Classical poses with lots of reclining and standing. Lots of greens, pinks, and golds!

~Sales limited to 20~

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On Mon 12PM EST the set will come live and will then be limited to 20 sales at 60€.

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