Vilhelms Purvītis. Winter ('Ziema'), 1910 (Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs, Riga).

Oil on cardboard: 71.3 x 101.8 cm.
And a happy new year...

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Anton Rooskens. Untitled, 1974 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 97 x 130 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, November 2016.

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Alma Erdmann. Schwarzwald Woman (‘Schwarzwälderin’), 1899 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 96 cm. Photo credit: Supernaut.

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Jules Laurens. The Blue mosque of Tauris in Persia (‘La Mosquée bleue à Tauris en Perse’), 1872 (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).

Oil on canvas: 110 x 165 cm. From his three-year journey through the Middle East in the late 1840s. This work was painted almost 25 years after the journey, based on his meticulous drawings. 

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Harmen Steenwijck. Vanitas Still Life (‘Vanitas-stilleven’), ca. 1650 (Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden).

Oil on wood: 37.4 x 38.2 cm.

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Jean Fouquet. Virgin and Child surrounded by Angels (‘Madonna omringd door Serafijnen en Cherubijnen’), ca. 1450 (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).

Oil on wood: 94.5 x 85.5 cm. Melun Diptych.

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Jonathan Viner. Meet Me in Helsinki, 2015 (private collection).

Oil on panel: 91.4 x 121.9 cm.

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Peacocks, 1683 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 190 x 135 cm. The one with the sneezy squirrel.

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Léon Cogniet. King Metabus of the Volsci (‘Métabus roi des Volsques’), 1821 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres).

Oil on canvas: 291 x 210 cm(!). Restored May 2016.

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Amedeo Modigliani. Beatrice (‘Portrait de Béatrice Hastings’), 1916 (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).

Oil on canvas: 55.2 x 38.2 cm.

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Eric Wert. Satsuma, 2011 (private collection).

Oil on panel: 22.9 x 30.5 cm(!).

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Rembrandt van Rijn. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (‘De anatomische les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp’), 1632 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 169.5 x 216.5 cm.

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Nicolas de Staël. Landscape - La Ciotat (‘Paysage - La Ciotat’), 1952 (private collection).

Oil on board: 38 x 55 cm. Auctioned at Versailles Enchères, December 2018.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Meadow Flowers and Cat (‘Wiesenblumen und Katze’), 1932 (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 157 x 110 cm.

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Frits Thaulow. Watermill, 1892 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).

Oil on canvas: 81.3 x 121 cm. The watermill along the banks of the river Canche in Montreuil-sur-Mer. Remains of the former mill can still be found at the Rue du Moulin du Bacon. Similar version ‘Bak møllene, Montreuil-sur-Mer’ (1892) auctioned at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, May 2011.

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Eugène Jansson. Hornsgatan by Night (‘Hornsgatan nattetid’), 1902 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 152 x 182 cm.

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Johannes Vermeer. The Lacemaker (‘La Dentellière’), 1670 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 24.5 x 21 cm(!). The smallest painting Vermeer ever painted. Poetry of silence.

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Frank Nitsche. EGO-01-2008, 2008 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 200 x 174.6 cm.

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Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов). Girl with a Putting Shot, 1933 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

Oil on canvas: 124 x 65 cm.

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The Repose (‘Le repos’), 1860 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 84 x 127 cm. Reworked ca. 1865/ 1870. From the defunct Corcoran Gallery of Art.

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Giovanni Battista Moroni. The Tailor (‘Il tagliapanni’), ca. 1570 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 99.5 x 77 cm.

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Félix Vallotton. Pink and red Tulips (‘Tulipes roses et rouges’), 1912 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 65 cm. Auctioned at Koller Zürich, June 2019.

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Lars Elling. The Garden (‘Hagen’), 2014 (artist’s portfolio).

Egg-oil tempera on canvas: 170 x 170 cm.

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Pekka Halonen. Wintry Landscape (‘Talvinen Maisema’), 1911 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 73 x 53 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Helsinki, December 2018.

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Anthony/ Anthoon/ Anthonis van Dyck. Samson and Delilah (‘Gefangennahme Simsons’), ca. 1630 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 146 x 254 cm(!). A dramatic gesture of disbelief.

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Michaël Borremans. The Angel, 2013 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 200 x 300 cm(!). Belgian model and actress Hannelore Knuts.

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Christian Rex van Minnen. Paralax, 2019 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on linen: 122 x 182.9 cm. Christian Rex van Minnen (2017): “I find that in the Dutch Golden Age, where oil painting as a material reached its zenith. In terms of what oil paint can do, I think that is the height of its technical application. But I also see that period in history as the root of a lot of the world's problems, the sort of early celebration of the material and capitalism and the global economy. Everything that made that art market explode, allowing artists to be free to explore the material and subject matter was because of this explosion in the merchant class. That had a lot to do with slavery and the global marketplace, and colonization, so I have mixed emotions about it”.

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Thorvald Erichsen. Landscape (‘Landskap’), 1924 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 65 x 81 cm. Auctioned at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, November 2010.

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Leander Engström. The Beach (‘Badstranden’), 1920 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 88.5 x 125 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, May 2019.

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Ferdinand Hodler. The Breithorn (‘Das Breithorn’), ca. 1911 (Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne).

Oil on canvas: 67 x 89 cm.

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Diego Velázquez. Mars resting (‘Descanso de Marte’), ca. 1638 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 179 x 95 cm. Mars seated on a luxurious bed. Love conquers all.

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Pierre Bonnard. Coffee (‘Le Café’), 1915 (Tate Modern, London).

Oil on canvas: 73 x 106.4 cm.

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Francisco de Zurbarán. Saint Casilda (‘Santa Casilda’), ca. 1635 (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 171 x 107 cm.

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Anton Mauve. Little Goat (‘Geitje’), ca. 1880 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht).

Oil on canvas on panel: 29 x 41.5 cm.

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Elin Danielson-Gambogi. After Breakfast (‘Aamiaisen jälkeen’), 1900 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 67 x 94 cm. Coffee and Cigarettes.

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Kazimir Malevich (Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич). Sportsmen, ca. 1931 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on canvas: 142 x 164 cm.

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Jan Sluijters. Moon Night (‘Maannacht IV’), 1912 (Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar).

Oil on canvas: 80 x 126 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, May 1989.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Railway Bridge on Löbtauer Street in Dresden (‘Eisenbahnüberführung Löbtauer Straße in Dresden’), 1926 (Albertinum - Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden).

Oil on canvas: 70.5 x 90.5 cm.

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El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). Laocoön, ca. 1614 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 137.5 x 172.5 cm. El Greco’s sole painting of a mythological subject. The Laocoön statue (excavated in 1506) was rapidly depicted in prints and models, and became popular all over Europe. The statue triggered the paradox of admiring beauty while seeing people dying. El Greco’s interpretation has hardly any beauty. He is deliberately breaking away from the balance and harmony of Renaissance art.

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