Eugène Jansson. Nocturne, 1901 (Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 149 x 201 cm.

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Max/ Maximilian Kurzweil. Lady in Yellow (‘Dame in Gelb’), 1899 (Wien Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 170 x 170 cm. The artist’s wife. Kurzweil was co-founder of the Vienna Secession, but seceded with Klimt and others in 1905. He became a teacher at the Artschool for Women in 1909. Was appointed war painter in 1915, and committed suicide with his pupil Helene Heger in 1916. His work was only rediscovered in 1964 after a retrospective 'Wien um 1900' at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.

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Anders Zorn. Summer Pleasure ('Sommarnöje'), 1886 (private collection, Sweden).

Watercolour on paper(!): 76 x 54 cm. Auctioned at Stockholms Auktionsverk, June 2010. Price tag: SEK 26.000.000 (ca. € 2.700.000).

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Samuel (Salomon) Verveer. Afternoon at Katwijk aan Zee (‘Namiddag te Katwijk aan Zee’), 1863 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Oil on canvas: 85 x 131 cm.

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Alphonse/ Alfons Mucha. Job, ca. 1896 (private collection).

Lithograph print on paper: 59 x 46 cm. Printed by F. Champenois, Paris. One of the iconic posters for Joseph Bardou Company (JOB), manufacturers of cigarette papers. With numerous editions subsequently published in a variety of formats for international markets.

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Liu Chunhai (刘纯海). The Blank in our Youth, off to Town, ca. 2015 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 160 x 200 cm.

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Joachim Beuckelaer (follower). Kitchen Scene, with Jesus in the House of Martha and Mary in the background (‘Keukenstuk, met op de achtergrond Jezus bij Martha en Maria’), 1569 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 110 x 140.5 cm. Now considered a copy after Beuckelaer. Contemporaries would look for hidden erotic meaning in paintings like these. Apparently the cabbage was a symbol of female sexuality.

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Georges Rouault. Sleep My Love (‘Dors mon amour’), 1935 (Le Cirque de l’Etoile filante, 1938).

Aquatint print on paper: 31 x 21.5 cm.

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Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, 1785 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 210.8 x 151.1 cm.

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Maerten de Vos. Gillis Hooftman and his wife Margaretha van Nispen (‘Gillis Hooftman. Reder, en zijn echtgenote Margaretha van Nispen’), 1570 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 116 x 140.5 cm. Gillis (Aegidio) Hooftman van Eyckelberg, one of richest men in the city of Antwerp: Aetatis Sue XXXXVII… Aetatis Suae XXV.

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Bartholomeus van der Helst. Portrait of the Artist’s Wife Anna du Pire as Granida (‘Podobizna umělcovy ženy Anny du Pire v roli Granidy’), 1660 (Národní galerie v Praze, Prague - Sternberg Palace).

Oil on canvas: 70 x 58.5 cm. Van der Helst pictured his wife in pastoral costume. Viewers would have recognised this character from the play 'Granida' (1615) by Pieter Cornelis Hooft: a princess lost during the hunt who receives water from an adoring shepherd.

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Return from Fishing (‘Retour de la pêche: halage de la barque’), 1894 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 265 x 403.5 cm(!).

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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski). Thérèse on a Bench Seat ('Thérèse sur une banquette'), 1939 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 72.7 x 91.9 cm. Last known painting of his Parisian neighbour Thérèse Blanchard (1925-1950). Update (2019): Auctioned at Christie's New York, May 13 2019. From the collection of Dorothy and Richard Sherwood/ USA. Price tag: US$ 19.002.500 (ca. € 21.300.000).

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Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Composition with large red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray and Blue (‘Compositie met groot rood vlak, geel, zwart, grijs en blauw’), 1921 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 59.5 x 59.5 cm.

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Heinrich Bollandt. Venus and Cupid (‘Venus und Cupido’), ca. 1625 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).

Oil on lime: 196 x 89 cm.

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Prudence Heward. Sisters of rural Quebec, 1930 (Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor/ Canada).

Oil on canvas: 157.5 x 106.7 cm.

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Henri Matisse. Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background (‘Figure décorative sur fond ornemental’), ca. 1926 (Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 130 x 98 cm.

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Neil Stokoe. Two Figures in Room IV, 1971 (artist’s estate, UK).

Oil on canvas: 243.8 x 281 cm(!). Neil Stokoe (2015): “I didn’t exhibit for 30 years, until 2002. I was finally prompted to do so by an article I read quoting the great American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. He said that it’s important for an artist to get on the ladder, whatever rung he’s on, so that he can at least be assessed later on. If not a great aunt down the line makes a bonfire in the garden and burns them”.

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Gerald Leslie Brockhurst. Gilded Youth ('Jeunesse Dorée'), 1934 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool).

Oil on board: 76.2 x 63.1 cm. The model is Kathleen Nancy Woodward, who was to be Brockhurst’s lifelong model and second wife. Brockhurst nicknamed her Kathleen Dorette. The two had begun an affair when she was only 16. Their liaison led to a scandalous divorce of Bronckhurst from his first wife Anais Folin, much sensationalised in the press. In 1930’s Britain the term 'Jeunesse Dorée' was applied to wealthy and fashionable young people. By 1940, at the outbreak of WW-II, the two moved from London to the USA where they spent the rest of their lives supported by patrons.

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William Scott. Black and White on Yellow, 1970 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 61 x 61 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, November 2015.

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Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Tower of Babel (‘De toren van Babel’), ca. 1568 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Oil on wood: 74.6 x 59.9 cm. The other Bruegel tower of Babel at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: here.

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Egon Schiele. Standing female Nude with Blue Cloth (‘Stehender wieblicher Akt mit blauem Tuch’), 1914 (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg).

Gouache, watercolour and graphite on vellum paper: 48.3 x 32.2 cm.

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Matthias Weischer. Bath II (‘Bad II’), 2003 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 109.3 x 85 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, October 2011. Earlier version (2002): here.

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Govert Flinck. Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap, 1645 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on wood: 60.3 x 52.4 cm.

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Lu Cong. Erin Leigh #4, 2015 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on wood: 121.9 x 121.9 cm.

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