25 March 2018

Euan Uglow. Georgia, 1973 (British Council Collection, London).


Oil on canvas: 83.8 x 111.8 cm. Georgia Georgallas was an art student when she sat for this painting. She is wearing a Manchester United shirt, a cupless bra and shiny stockings. Georgallas posed for nearly five years, on most Saturday mornings. A typical session would be four hours, with breaks in between.

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23 March 2018

Thomas Sully. The Student, 1839 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).



Oil on canvas: 59.7 x 49.5 cm. The artist’s daughter Rosalie Kemble Sully. That strange hat is thought to be a lampshade from Sully’s studio. Other version (1848) at the Mint Museum, Charlotte. Sully made several replicas.

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22 March 2018

Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva seen from Chexbres (‘Genfersee von Chexbres aus’), 1905 (Kunsthaus Zürich).


Oil on canvas: ca. 81 x 100 cm. One of 13 versions of the view across Lake Geneva from the village of Chexbres painted between 1895 and 1911. In total Hodler made over 100 paintings depicting the lake. Other versions from the same view: here and here.

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20 March 2018

Edvard Munch. Inger in Black and Violet (‘Inger i svart og fiolett’), 1892 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).



Oil on canvas: 172.5 x 122.5 cm. The artist’s youngest sister Inger Marie Munch. After having lost both his parents and his elder sister, Johanne Sophie.

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18 March 2018

Susannah Martin. Miss (‘Fräulein’), 2010 (private collection).



Oil on canvas: 100 x 150 cm. Susannah Martin: “How absurd man seems stripped of his possessions and identity crutches and yet it is indisputable, he gains strength, clarity and beauty when we contemplate him abstractly, as a phenomenon of nature. My experimentation with contemporising the nude in landscape takes place within this framework of tension between these two poles of self-perception”.

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13 March 2018

Wassily Kandinsky (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский). Sky Blue (‘Bleu de Ciel’/ ‘Himmelblau’), 1940 (Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris).


Oil on canvas: 100 x 73 cm. Late optimistic work, while living in France. The Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich (Ausstellung Entartete Kunst) was opened in July 1937, followed by exhibitions in 1938 and 1939. Serenity, Zürich: here.

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10 March 2018

9 March 2018

Lavinia Fontana. Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli, half Length, in an Interior, holding a Dog and surrounded by six of her Children, ca. 1605 (private collection).



Oil on canvas: 99 x 133.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, January 2012. Mater familias Bianca degli Utili, wife of the nobleman Pierino Maselli. The epigraph formerly on her tomb in Rome revealed that she died in 1605 at the age of 37 after giving birth to her nineteenth(!) child.

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