Susannah Martin. Bavaria, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 170 x 240 cm. Susannah Martin: “Nature is no longer home to us, she is much more a tourist destination. Certainly no representation of the nude in landscape in the 21st century can escape conveying our extreme estrangement from nature, intentional or not. There is an unavoidable strangeness or feeling of dislocation which envelopes the most sincere attempt at harmony”. 

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Amedeo Modigliani. Reclining Nude (‘Nu couché’), 1918 (private collection, Shanghai).

Oil on canvas: 60 x 92 cm. Auctioned at Christie's New York, November 2015. Price tag: US$ 170.405.000 (ca. € 141.580.000).

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Lucas Cranach the elder. Salome with the Head of Saint John, 1530 (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest).

Oil on poplar: 87 x 58 cm.

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Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva seen from Chexbres (‘Genfersee von Chexbres aus’), ca. 1904 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Zürich, November 2011. Other versions from the same view: here and here.

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Félix Vallotton. The White and the Black (‘La Blanche et la Noire’), 1913 (Villa Flora, Winterthur).

Oil on canvas: 114 x 147 cm.

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Frits Thaulow. Winter at the River Simoa (‘Vinter ved Simoa’), 1883 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 49.5 x 78.5 cm.

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Vittorio Matteo Corcos. Dreams ('Sogni'), 1896 (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome).

Oil on canvas: 160 x 135 cm. First-wave feminism on its way.

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Egon Schiele. Adele Harms, the Artist’s Sister-in-Law (‘Adele Harms, die Schwägerin des Künstlers’), 1917 (Albertina, Vienna).

Gouache and graphite on paper: 43.8 x 28.5 cm.

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James Ensor. Skeleton stopping the Masks (‘Squelette arrêtant masques’), 1891 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 30.5 x 50.7 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, December 2016.

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Akseli Gallen Kallela. Winter Forest, 1900 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 55 x 43 cm. Auctioned at Hagelstam Helsinki, May 2015.

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Hans Holbein the younger. A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, 1528 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on oak: 56 x 38.8 cm. She has a friend for affection, but it’s chained.

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David Hockney. My Parents, 1977 (Tate Britain, London).

Oil on canvas: 182.9 x 182.9 cm.

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Ambrose McEvoy. Euphemia, 1909 (Tate Britain, London).

Oil on canvas: 73 x 48.3 cm.

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Frans Floris (de Vriendt). Portrait of an elderly Lady and her Dog (‘Portrait de dame âgée’/ ‘La Femme du fauconnier’), 1558 (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen).

Oil on canvas: 107.7 x 83.4 cm.

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Vegetation, 1950 (Brücke-Museum, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 65 x 90 cm.

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Peder Mørk Mønsted. A view of Borresö from Himmelbjerget (‘En visning af Borresö fra Himmelbjerget’), 1912 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 120.7 x 199.4 cm. Mønsted = guilty pleasure. Auctioned at Bonhams London, October 2010.

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Michaël Borremans. Automat I, 2008 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 80 x 60 cm.

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Edvard Munch. Winter (‘Vinter’), 1899 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on board: 60.5 x 90 cm.

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Marie-Gabrielle Capet. Self-Portrait, 1783 (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo).

Oil on canvas: 77.5 x 59.5 cm.

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Manuel Mathieu. Wind Chime, 2015 (private collection).

Acrylic and oil sticks on canvas: 170 x 160 cm. Manuel Mathieu (2016): “I rotate around concepts like identity, memory, and the irony that comes with our existence. I turn myself to history and the power structures that are trying to define me. Being black, being from the Caribbean, being a man — these are labels that come with certain connotations. They can create value or take it away, and they can change, depending on where you stand”.

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Pieter Claesz. Still Life with clay Pipes, 1636 (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Oil on wood: 49 x 63.5 cm.

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Georges de la Tour. The Fortune Teller, ca. 1635 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 101.9 x 123.5 cm.

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Archibald George Barnes. Reflections, ca. 1920 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, November 2013.

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Anders Zorn. The Hinds (‘Hindar’), 1908 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 91 x 61 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, spring 2013.

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Mary Jane Ansell. Georgie, 2009 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on panel: 34.4 x 21.6 cm. Mary Jane Ansell: “...I find it fascinating to explore the way light can be used to focus attention on certain details, or to conceal others. Colours, contours and textures are more clearly defined by the play of light and shadow, and become as symbolic and loaded with meaning as any other element in the work”.

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Jan van Huysum. Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, ca. 1715 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on wood: 78.7 x 61.3 cm.

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Tamara de Lempicka. Kizette in Pink (‘Kizette en rose’), 1927 (Musée d'arts de Nantes).

Oil on canvas: 116 x 73 cm. The artist’s daughter.

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