Pekka Halonen. Winter Landscape (‘Talvimaisema’), 1917 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 75 x 61 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Helsinki, December 2011.
And a happy new year...

More > Pekka Halonen at Wikipedia.
More > Pekka Halonen at Alternative Finland.

Diego Velázquez. The Ladies in Waiting (‘Las meninas’), 1656 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 320.5 x 281.5 cm(!). The young Infanta Margarita Teresa surrounded by her entourage.

Visit > Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
More > Diego Velázquez at Wikipedia.
More > 'Las meninas' at Wikipedia.

Ali Miller. Engage, 2014 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 121.9 x 91.4 cm.

Visit > Ali Miller official.

Jan van Kessel the elder. A Harbour Scene, with Fish, Crustaceans, Shells, Otters, Tortoises and Turtles on a Beach, 1660 (private collection).

Oil on copper: 20.3 x 29.9 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, April 2014.

More > Jan van Kessel the elder at Wikipedia.

Anders Zorn. Lucy Turner Joy, 1897 (St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis/ USA).

Oil on canvas: 61.6 x 76.8 cm.

Visit > St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis/ USA.
More > Anders Zorn at Wikipedia.
More > Zornmuseet, Mora.

Gustav Klimt. The Bride (‘Die Braut’), 1918 (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 165 x 191 cm. Unfinished.

Visit > Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna.
More > Gustav Klimt at Wikipedia.

Karl Hofer. Girl holding Record (‘Mädchen mit Schallplatte’), 1941 (Albertina, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 111.5 x 76 cm. Similar earlier Kansas version: here.

Visit > Albertina, Vienna.
More > Karl Hofer official.
More > Karl Hofer at Wikipedia.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Reclining (‘Liegende‘), 1952 (Brücke-Museum, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 76 x 112 cm.

Visit > Brücke-Museum, Berlin.
More > Karl Schmidt-Rottluff at Wikipedia.

Hans Makart. The Japanese (‘Die Japanerin’), ca. 1875 (Landesgalerie, Linz).

Oil on mahogany: 141.5 x 92.5 cm.

Visit > Landesgalerie, Linz.
More > Hans Makart at Wikipedia.

Georges Rouault. The old King, ca. 1920 (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh).

Oil on canvas: 76.8 x 53.9 cm.

Visit > Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
More > Georges Rouault at Wikipedia.

Bryony Bensly. Auguries of Innocence - study, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 50.8 x 106.7 cm.

Visit > Bryony Bensly official.
Visit > Bryony Bensly at RJD Gallery.

Teodora Axente. Under the Spell, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 40 x 25 cm.

Visit > Teodora Axente official.
Visit > Teodora Axente at: Galleria Doris Ghetta, Rosenfeld Porcini.

Salomon van Ruysdael. A View of Deventer seen from the North-West, 1657 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on wood: 52 x 77 cm. When rivers were highways and boats were trucks.

Visit > National Gallery, London.
More > Salomon van Ruysdael at Wikipedia.

Nelson Shanks. Pigtails, 2004 (James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown).

Oil on canvas: 71 x 50 cm.

Visit > James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown.
Visit > Nelson Shanks official.
More > Nelson Shanks at Wikipedia.
More > Google Arts & Culture.

Helmi Biese. View from Pyynikki Ridge, 1900 (Kansallisgalleria - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Helsinki).

Oil on canvas: 91 x 115 cm.

Visit > Kansallisgalleria - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Helsinki.
More > Helmi Biese at Wikipedia.

Alfred James Munnings. Equestrian Portrait of Mrs. Bayard-Tuckerman, 1924 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 77.5 x 84.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, May 2017. The painter who hated Picasso. The portrait of Lady Barbara Lowther: here.

More > Alfred James Munnings at Wikipedia.
More > Alfred James Munnings at Art UK.
More > The Munnings Art Museum, Dedham/ UK.

David Jagger. The Jade Necklace - the Artist’s Wife, 1923 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 91.5 x 63.5 cm. Auctioned at Bonhams London, November 2017. Following their marriage in 1921, Jagger produced several exhibition canvases of his wife Katherine 'Kitty' Jagger (1900-1982). Throughout the decade she was sketched and painted by various other artists. Her photogenic beauty led to many images of her appearing in society magazines. Other portrait: here.

More > David Jagger at Wikipedia.
More > David Jagger at Art UK.

Frans Snyders. Group of Birds perched on Branches (‘Assemblage d'oiseaux perchés sur des branches’), ca. 1630 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 122 x 176 cm. Presumed a pendant with a missing panel, because all the birds are facing to the left.

Visit > Musée du Louvre, Paris.
More > Frans Snyders at Wikipedia.

Christian Rex van Minnen. You sharpen my Knife - I’ll sharpen yours, 2015 (private collection).

Oil on panel: 61 x 45.7 cm. Christian Rex van Minnen (2017): “I think it has a lot to do with intimacy with the material, just being present with it and enjoying that kind of back-and-forth, and watching what's happening in the present moment; not necessarily forcing it as a means to an end. I enjoy that. Fundamentally, I just enjoy seeing what's happening with the paint and following it, testing the limitations. I just have a love and a respect for the materiality and seeing what it can do, walking that fine line between celebrating material”.

Visit > Christian Rex van Minnen official.
Visit > Christian Rex van Minnen at: Postmasters Gallery, Gallery Poulsen, Robischon Gallery, Richard Heller Gallery.
More > Christian Rex van Minnen at Instagram.
More > Christian Rex van Minnen at Wikipedia.

Giuseppe Cesari. Perseus and Andromeda (‘Perseus befreit Andromeda’), 1602 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on slate: 51.8 x 38.2 cm. An almost identical version lies at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown/ USA. A slightly different version is at the RISD Museum, Providence/ USA.

Visit > Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
More > Giuseppe Cesari at Wikipedia.

Edvard Munch. Starry Night (‘Stjernenatt’), 1922 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 120.5 x 100 cm.

Visit > Munchmuseet, Oslo.
More > Edvard Munch at Wikipedia.

Jan Brueghel the elder. The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, 1613 (private collection).

Oil on copper: 23.7 x 36.8 cm(!). Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, July 2014. Similar versions at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj Rome and the Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid.

More > Jan Brueghel the elder at Wikipedia.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Winter Forest/ Davos-Frauenkirch (‘Wald im Winter/ Davos-Frauenkirch’), ca. 1925 (Museum Ludwig, Cologne).

Oil on canvas: 95.5 x 80.5 cm.

Visit > Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
More > Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at Wikipedia.

Joseph Franklin Kershaw. Portrait of a South Kensington Model, 1908 (Gallery Oldham, Oldham).

Oil on canvas: 59.5 x 49.5 cm. The Ulrich long neck: here.

Visit > Gallery Oldham, Oldham.
More > Joseph Franklin Kershaw at Art UK.

Anders Zorn. On the Blue-Grey Leather Couch (‘På den blågrå skinnsoffan’/ ‘På lädersoffan’), 1916 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 64 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, autumn 2013.

More > Anders Zorn at Wikipedia.
More > Zornmuseet, Mora.

George Spencer Watson. Portrait of a Woman/ Woman in a Camisole, ca. 1930 (Royal Academy of Arts, London).

Oil on canvas: 71.2 x 91.5 cm. 

Visit > Royal Academy of Arts, London.
More > George Spencer Watson at Wikipedia.
More > George Spencer Watson at Art UK.

Jan Mijtens/ Mytens the younger. Portrait of a Girl picking Grapes (‘Portrait d’une jeune fille cueillant des raisins’), ca. 1640 (Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 50.2 x 40.5 cm.

Visit > Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris.
More > Jan Mijtens/ Mytens the younger at Wikipedia.

Maurice Barraud. Three Girls with Bicycles (‘Trois jeunes filles à vélo’), 1947 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 90.5 x 150 cm. Probably executed 1944 ('Abfahrt’, Kunstmuseum Solothurn). Auctioned at Dobiaschofsky Auktionen AG Bern, November 2017.

More > Maurice Barraud at Wikipedia (German).

Johannes Rian. Circus Line (‘Sirkuslinjen’), 1979 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: ca. 100 x 80 cm.

More > Johannes Rian at Wikipedia.

Michaël Borremans. A2, 2004 (artist's portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 40 x 35 cm.

Visit > Michaël Borremans at: Zeno X Gallery, David Zwirner.
More > Michaël Borremans at Wikipedia.

Gerard/ Gerrit van Honthorst. Satyr and Nymph (‘Sater en nimf’), 1623 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on canvas: 104 x 131 cm.

Visit > Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
More > Gerard van Honthorst at Wikipedia.

Kazimir Malevich (Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич). Self-Portrait in two Dimensions (‘Zelfportret in twee dimensies’), 1915 (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam).

Oil on canvas: 80 x 62 cm.

Visit > Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
More > Kazimir Malevich at Wikipedia.

Albrecht Dürer. Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher, 1526 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on lime: 51 x 37 cm. Copy by Hans Hoffmann (1578) at Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.

Visit > Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
More > Albrecht Dürer at Wikipedia.
More > Albrecht Dürer at Google Arts & Culture.
More > Our top-50 favourite paintings.

Ole Mæhle. Winter (‘Vinter’), 1948 (Lillehammer Kunstmuseum).

Oil on canvas: ca. 90 x 110 cm.

Visit > Lillehammer Kunstmuseum.

David Jagger. Olga, 1936 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 117.5 x 89.5 cm. Auctioned at Bonhams London, March 2006.

More > David Jagger at Wikipedia.
More > David Jagger at Art UK.

Kerry James Marshall. Past Times, 1997 (McCormick Place Art Collection, Chicago/ private collection).

Acrylic and collage on canvas: 289.6 x 396.2 cm(!). This bites... Update (2018): Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, May 2018. Price tag: US$ 21.114.500 (ca. € 17.917.000).

Visit > McCormick Place Art Collection, Chicago.
More > Kerry James Marshall at Wikipedia.

John McAllister Gray. Interior with Table, 1973 (Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford/ UK).

Acrylic on canvas: 182 x 182 cm.

Visit > Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford/ UK.
More > John McAllister Gray at Art UK.

David Teniers the younger. Peasants Dancing and Feasting, ca. 1660 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 63.8 x 74.9 cm.

Visit > Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
More > David Teniers the younger at Wikipedia.

John Currin. Helena, 2006 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 50.8 x 63.5 cm. Update (2019): Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, November 2019. Price tag: US$ 1.160.000 (ca. € 1.030.000).

Visit > Gagosian Gallery, New York.
More > John Currin at Wikipedia.
More > John Currin selected press at Gagosian.

Jan Davidsz de Heem. Vase of Flowers, ca. 1660 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 69.6 x 56.5 cm.

Visit > National Gallery of Art, Washington.
More > Google Arts & Culture.
More > Jan Davidsz de Heem at Wikipedia.

Edvard Munch. P.A. Munch’s Grave in Rome (‘P.A. Munchs grav i Roma‘), 1927 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 89 x 73.5 cm. Peter Andreas Munch (1810-1863), Norwegian historian and uncle of Edvard Munch. Photo credit: Ove Kvavik. 

Visit > Munchmuseet, Oslo.
More > Edvard Munch at Wikipedia.