28 February 2018
Carl Rottmann. Delos - Greece, 1840 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil and resin on plaster board: 161.8 x 205.9 cm.
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25 February 2018
Alphonsine de Challie. Young Lady with a pink Veil (‘Jeune femme brune au voile rose à sa toilette’), ca. 1900 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 62 x 81 cm. Auctioned at Artcurial Paris, November 2017. Alphonsine de Challie worked in the studio of Charles Joshua Chaplin and was a friend of Berthe Morisot. Ears were not her forte.
24 February 2018
George Henry. Lady with Goldfish, ca. 1905 (Kirkcaldy Galleries, Kirkcaldy).
Oil on canvas: 96.5 x 114.5 cm.
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23 February 2018
Gustav Klimt. Music I (‘Die Musik’), 1895 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil and gold on canvas: 27.5 x 35.5 cm.
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22 February 2018
Johann Baptist Reiter. Slumbering Woman (‘Schlummernde Frau’), 1849 (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 55 x 68 cm. Artist’s first wife, who left him in 1850.
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20 February 2018
Fedot Sychkov (Федот Васильевич Сычков). Mordvinian Girl, 1931 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 89 x 69 cm. Auctioned at Dorotheum Vienna, October 2016.
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19 February 2018
Konstantin Kryzhitsky (Константин Яковлевич Крыжицкий). The Lake, 1892 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 51 x 81 cm. Auctioned at Mac Dougall’s London, December 2015.
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18 February 2018
Jan Massys (Massijs/ Matsys/ Metsys). Flora, 1559 (Hamburger Kunsthalle).
Oil on oak: 113.2 x 112.9 cm. Son of the leading Antwerp painter Quinten Matsys (Massys/ Massijs/ Metsys).
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15 February 2018
Zoran Mušič. Fishing Nets at Chioggia (‘Filets a Chioggia’), 1956 (Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London).
Oil on canvas: 113 x 145 cm. A relatively mild work by a very troubled and restless artist.
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14 February 2018
Peder Mørk Mønsted. River in Saeby Forest (‘Ån i Saeby Skov’), 1896 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 90 x 152 cm. Mønsted = guilty pleasure. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, June 2015.
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Philips Wouwerman. The Halt of a Hawking Party at a Wayside Inn, ca. 1660 (Royal Collection Trust, London).
Oil on canvas on panel: 57.9 x 62.1 cm. With his signature diagonal composition.
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13 February 2018
Piero di Cosimo (attributed). Portrait of a Woman, said to be Simonetta Vespucci (‘Portrait de femme dit de Simonetta Vespucci’), 1490 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
Tempera on wood: 42 x 57 cm. The face is en profil, but the bust is turned towards the spectator. Authenticity of inscription is disputed. The Botticelli portrait: here.
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Firmin Baes. The young Girl and the Cabbage (‘La petite fille au chou’), ca. 1903 (private collection, Antwerp).
Pastel, oil and watercolour on board: 85 x 70.5 cm. From the Caroline & Maurice Verbaet Collection. When this work was made, it was custom in Belgium and the Netherlands to tell children that babies were born out of a cabbage.
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12 February 2018
11 February 2018
Charles Hermans. Bal Masqué, 1880 (Chimei Museum, Tainan City).
Oil on canvas: 321.3 x 401.3 cm(!). Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, November 2011.
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Jan van Kessel the elder. Festoons, Masks and Rosettes of Shells (‘Festons, masques et rosettes de coquillages’), 1656 (Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris).
Oil on copper: 40 x 56 cm. Trompe-l'œil.
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10 February 2018
Jacob Philipp Hackert. Fireworks over Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (‘Feuerwerk auf der Engelsburg in Rom’), ca. 1775 (Klassik Stiftung, Weimar).
Gouache on paper: 44.7 x 58.2 cm.
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9 February 2018
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst. Delores, ca. 1925 (private collection).
Oil on wood: 61 x 46 cm. Auctioned at Christie's London, December 2014.
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8 February 2018
Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, ca. 1942 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 60.3 x 55.4 cm.
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7 February 2018
Joachim Beuckelaer. The Four Elements: Fire, 1569 (National Gallery, London).
Oil on canvas: 158 x 215 cm. Photo credit: Ramón Muñoz. The other elements: Earth, Water, Air.
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5 February 2018
Dod Procter. The Orchard, 1934 (Tate Britain, London).
Oil on canvas: 101.6 x 127 cm.
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3 February 2018
John Martin. The Plains of Heaven (triptych), ca. 1852 (Tate Britain, London).
Oil on canvas: 307 x 199 cm(!).
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2 February 2018
Alan Beeton. Marguerite Kelsey, ca. 1936 (private collection, UK).
Oil on canvas. Said to be in the collection of Richard Ormond, former director of the National Maritime Museum. Exhibited at the Watts Gallery, Guildford/ UK November 2016. The Frampton portrait: here.
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