28 April 2018

Auguste Herbin. Good (‘Bien’), 1952 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 124 x 84 cm. Auctioned at Grisebach Berlin, June 2001. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, November 2002. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, December 2009. 

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24 April 2018

Firmin Baes. Tranquillity (‘Quiétude’), ca. 1920 (private collection).


Pastel on canvas: 98 x 80 cm. Auctioned at Hôtel de Ventes Horta Brussels, December 2012.

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Gustav Klimt. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 (Neue Galerie, New York).



Oil and gold on canvas: 138 x 138 cm. Confiscated by the Nazi regime in 1939 from the estate of widowed husband Ferdinand Bloch. Transferred to the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in 1941 (in accordance with Adele Bloch-Bauer’s will). In 2006 an arbitration panel judged the painting should be returned to the Bloch-Bauer estate (ic. Maria Bloch-Altmann, niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer). The painting left Austria in March 2006 and was sold at auction at Christie's New York in November 2006. Bought by cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder. Now on display at his Neue Galerie in New York City.

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21 April 2018

Paul Sieffert. Sleeping Girl (‘Jeune fille endormie’), 1934 (private collection).


Oil on canvas: 97 x 162 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, February 2018. Ass-man Sieffert left quite a repetitive oeuvre, but this work kind of stands out for its limited palette.

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15 April 2018

Peter Paul Rubens. Union of Earth and Water, ca. 1618 (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg).



Oil on canvas: 222.5 x 180.5 cm. Cybele, with the horn of plenty, represents earth. Neptune, resting on the trident, represents water. The union is blessed by the goddess of victory descending from mount Olympus. Oil on panel study at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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2 April 2018

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo). Cosimo I de’ Medici in Armour, ca. 1545 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).



Oil on poplar: 86 x 67 cm. A work that exists in many replicas and copies. Other versions at: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. 

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