Edvard Munch. White Night (‘Hvit natt’), 1901 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 115.5 x 111 cm.
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Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights - triptych (‘Tríptico del jardín de las delicias’), ca. 1500 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on oak: 205.6 x 386 cm (including frames).

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Chloe Early. Encounter, 2013 (artist’s portfolio/ prints).

Oil on aluminium: 182 x 123 cm. For this series the artist had models jumping on a trampoline and photographed them in mid-air. Chloe Early: “...I’ve always been interested in opposites in my work and exploring themes which can have a dual interpretation”.

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Adolph (von) Menzel. Afternoon in Tuileries Gardens, 1867 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 49 x 70 cm.

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Malcolm T. Liepke. Reclining Nude, 2010 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: ca. 33 x 33 cm(?).

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Hendrick ter Brugghen. Bacchante with an Ape, 1627 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on canvas: 102.9 x 89.2 cm.

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Ivan Ivarson. View from a Balcony with Flowers (‘Balkongutsikt med blomsterprakt’), ca. 1930 (private collection).

Oil on wood: 60 x 60 cm. Auctioned at Stockholms Auktionsverk, April 2011.

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John William Waterhouse. Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, 1908 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 61.6 cm x 45.7 cm.

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Philip Alexius de László. Portrait of Edith Hope Iselin, 1930 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 163 x 91 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, July 2015. Edith Hope Iselin (1905-2001) was the daughter of Charles Oliver Iselin of New York, a well-known millionaire banker, and his second wife Edith Hope Goddard. She was painted in László’s London studio over the course of several sittings in 1930. In 1932 the painting was exhibited at Knoedler New York, and featured on the front cover of The Art News. A film fragment exists of Edith Hope Iselin wearing the same dress. In 1936 she married Archer Gracchus Jones jr., and lived much of the rest of her life on her ranch in Tucson, Arizona.

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Pekka Halonen. Early Spring, 1911 (Espoon Modernin Taiteen Museo, Espoo).

Oil on canvas: ca. 54 x 39 cm.

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Diego Velázquez. The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus'), ca. 1650 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 122.5 x 177 cm. Attacked with a meat cleaver by suffragette Mary Richardson (nicknamed ‘Slasher Mary’) in 1914.

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Vilhelm Hammershøi. Interior with a Lady, 1901 (Detroit Institute of Arts).

Oil on canvas: 54.9 x 53 cm.

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Hans Sieverding. Untitled 17-11-2015, 2015 (private collection).

Acrylic on canvas: 130 x 150 cm.

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Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of a young Lady, ca. 1565 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 51 x 42 cm. Almost too good to be true. Its provenance dates back to a 1918(?) sale of antiques from the collection of Prince Gagarin of St. Petersburg (Kathleen M. Morris/ Williamstown).

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Joseph William Turner. Yacht approaching the Coast, ca. 1845 (Tate Britain, London).

Oil on canvas: 102.2 x 142.2 cm.

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Eckart Hahn. Hypnotic, 2013 (artist’s portfolio).

Acrylic on canvas: 100 x 80 cm.

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Jan van Kessel of Amsterdam. At the Heiligewegspoort in Amsterdam (‘Bij de Heilige Wegs Poort in Amsterdam’), 1680 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 76.5 x 107.5 cm. Jan van Kessel of Amsterdam (1641-1680), not to be confused with Jan van Kessel the elder (1626-1679).

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Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Composition No. III, with Red, Blue, Yellow and Black, 1929 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 50 x 50.2 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2015. Price tag US$ 50.565.000 (ca. € 42.600.000).

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Sebastiaen Vrancx (w. Jan Brueghel the elder). Raid on a Convoy (‘Sorpresa de un convoy’), ca. 1620 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 48 x 86 cm.

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Erik Mattijssen. Household Supplies, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Gouache on paper: 150 x 101 cm.

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Michael Sweerts. Head of a woman, ca. 1654 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on wood: 50.6 x 37.5 cm. Such an intriguing portrait. Life has not been kind to her. Her teeth are gone. Working hard, but always in poverty. What went through her mind when she saw the finished portrait? Sweerts is said to have been an unpleasant character. He travelled Asia and the Middle-East and ended up with the Jesuits in Goa. 

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Pieter Aertsen. Market Woman at a Vegetable Stand (‘Marktfrau am Gemüsestand’), 1567 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on oak: 110 x 110 cm.

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Young Girl reading, ca. 1776 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 81.1 x 64.8 cm.

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Meredith Frampton. Portrait of a young Woman, 1935 (Tate Modern, London).

Oil on canvas: 205.7 x 107.9 cm.

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Gustaf Fjaestad. Winter Landscape (‘Vinterlandskap’), ca. 1920 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 100 x 130 cm. Auctioned at Stockholms Auktionsverk, June 2012.

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Rogier van der Weyden. The Descent from the Cross (‘El Descendimiento’), ca. 1435 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on oak: 204.5 x 261.5 cm. The figures are slightly less than life-size. Cleaned and restored in 1992-1993. The panel is exceptionally well preserved. Beautiful contortions and false perspectives to fit the golden box. Powerful gestures and facial expressions. Copy by Michiel Coxcie (ca. 1545) at the Bode Museum, Berlin.

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Susannah Martin. Bavaria, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 170 x 240 cm. Susannah Martin: “Nature is no longer home to us, she is much more a tourist destination. Certainly no representation of the nude in landscape in the 21st century can escape conveying our extreme estrangement from nature, intentional or not. There is an unavoidable strangeness or feeling of dislocation which envelopes the most sincere attempt at harmony”. 

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Amedeo Modigliani. Reclining Nude (‘Nu couché’), 1918 (private collection, Shanghai).

Oil on canvas: 60 x 92 cm. Auctioned at Christie's New York, November 2015. Price tag: US$ 170.405.000 (ca. € 141.580.000).

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Lucas Cranach the elder. Salome with the Head of Saint John, 1530 (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest).

Oil on poplar: 87 x 58 cm.

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Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva seen from Chexbres (‘Genfersee von Chexbres aus’), ca. 1904 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Zürich, November 2011. Other versions from the same view: here and here.

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Félix Vallotton. The White and the Black (‘La Blanche et la Noire’), 1913 (Villa Flora, Winterthur).

Oil on canvas: 114 x 147 cm.

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Frits Thaulow. Winter at the River Simoa (‘Vinter ved Simoa’), 1883 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 49.5 x 78.5 cm.

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Vittorio Matteo Corcos. Dreams ('Sogni'), 1896 (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome).

Oil on canvas: 160 x 135 cm. First-wave feminism on its way.

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Egon Schiele. Adele Harms, the Artist’s Sister-in-Law (‘Adele Harms, die Schwägerin des Künstlers’), 1917 (Albertina, Vienna).

Gouache and graphite on paper: 43.8 x 28.5 cm.

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James Ensor. Skeleton stopping the Masks (‘Squelette arrêtant masques’), 1891 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 30.5 x 50.7 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, December 2016.

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Akseli Gallen Kallela. Winter Forest, 1900 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 55 x 43 cm. Auctioned at Hagelstam Helsinki, May 2015.

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Hans Holbein the younger. A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, 1528 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on oak: 56 x 38.8 cm. She has a friend for affection, but it’s chained.

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