27 May 2017

Émile Friant. The familiar Birds, 1921 (M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans).


Oil on canvas: 164 x 120 cm. Irresistible kitsch. Same model as for: ‘Devant la Psyché’ 1912 (Musée des Beaux Arts Nancy) and ‘Femme au Lion’ 1919 (private collection).

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Edvard Munch. The Sun (‘Solen’), ca. 1913 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).



Oil on linen: 324 x 509.5 cm(!). The Oslo University Hall version: here.

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26 May 2017

15 May 2017

Philip Alexius de László. Portrait of Mrs. Doreen Marguerite (Bury) Buchanan, 1929 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 132 x 91.5 cm. Doreen Marguerite Bury (1900-1986), wife of colonel Edmund Pullar Buchanan (1893-1962). The two married in 1926 in Wellington/ UK.

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12 May 2017

Gustav Klimt. Unfinished Portrait of Ria Munk (‘Frauenbildnis - Ria Munk III’), 1918 (private collection).


Oil and charcoal on canvas: 180.7 x 89.9 cm. Third (unfinished) painting in a series of three posthumous portraits commissioned by the Munk family of their daughter Ria. Similar provenance as ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’. Confiscated by the Nazi regime in 1941 and sold to art collector and dealer William Gurlitt. Transferred to the Lentos Museum, Linz in 1953. Restituted to the Munk estate in 2009, and sold at auction at Christie’s London in June 2010. Now privately owned (The Lewis Collection).

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