Jean-Siméon Chardin. The Ray (‘La Raie’), ca. 1726 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 114 x 146 cm. Chardin’s reception piece to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1728. Pendant to the painting ‘The Buffet’.

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Abraham Mignon. Still Life with Fruit, Oysters, and a Porcelain Bowl (‘Stilleven met vruchten, oesters en een porseleinen kom’), 1679 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 55 x 45 cm.

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Maurice de Vlaminck. The sunny Village (‘Le village ensoleillé’), ca. 1926 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 54 x 65.2 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2016. Curious for the lack of his signature apocalyptic skies.

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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski). Thérèse Dreaming ('Young Girl resting'), 1938 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 149.9 x 129.5 cm. Still controversial in the USA, and reason for protests and petitions.

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Euan Uglow. Georgia, 1973 (British Council Collection, London).

Oil on canvas: 83.8 x 111.8 cm. Georgia Georgallas was an art student when she sat for this painting. She is wearing a Manchester United shirt, a cupless bra and shiny stockings. Georgallas posed for nearly five years, on most Saturday mornings. A typical session would be four hours, with breaks in between.

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Thomas Sully. The Student, 1839 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 59.7 x 49.5 cm. The artist’s daughter Rosalie Kemble Sully. That strange hat is thought to be a lampshade from Sully’s studio. Other version (1848) at the Mint Museum, Charlotte. Sully made several replicas.

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Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva seen from Chexbres (‘Genfersee von Chexbres aus’), 1905 (Kunsthaus Zürich).

Oil on canvas: ca. 81 x 100 cm. One of 13 versions of the view across Lake Geneva from the village of Chexbres painted between 1895 and 1911. In total Hodler made over 100 paintings depicting the lake. Other versions from the same view: here and here.

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James Ensor. Seashells (‘Coquillages’), 1937 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 52.5 x 59.6 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, June 2016.

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Arnold Böcklin. Battle of the Centaurs (‘Kentaurenkampf’), 1873 (Kunstmuseum Basel).

Oil on canvas: 104.2 x 194.3 cm.

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Edvard Munch. Inger in Black and Violet (‘Inger i svart og fiolett’), 1892 (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 172.5 x 122.5 cm. The artist’s youngest sister Inger Marie Munch. After having lost both his parents and his elder sister, Johanne Sophie.

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Salvador Dali. Two Figures (‘Dues figures’), 1926 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 149 x 198 cm. Early work, heavily influenced by Picasso and Miró.

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Susannah Martin. Miss (‘Fräulein’), 2010 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 100 x 150 cm. Susannah Martin: “How absurd man seems stripped of his possessions and identity crutches and yet it is indisputable, he gains strength, clarity and beauty when we contemplate him abstractly, as a phenomenon of nature. My experimentation with contemporising the nude in landscape takes place within this framework of tension between these two poles of self-perception”.

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Paolo Veronese. Lucretia (‘Lukrezia’), ca. 1583 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 109.5 x 90.5 cm.

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Wassily Kandinsky (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский). Sky Blue (‘Bleu de Ciel’/ ‘Himmelblau’), 1940 (Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 100 x 73 cm. Late optimistic work, while living in France. The Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich (Ausstellung Entartete Kunst) was opened in July 1937, followed by exhibitions in 1938 and 1939. Serenity, Zürich: here.

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Tamara de Lempicka. The Red Tunic (‘La Tunique Rose’), 1927 (private collection, USA).

Oil on canvas: 73 x 116 cm.

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Firmin Baes. The Fire-works (‘Le feu d'artifice’), 1937 (Berko Fine Paintings, Knokke-Heist).

Pastel on canvas board: 28 x 42 cm. Inscription by the artist: '…Exposition de Paris - octobre 1937 - Souvenir d'une fête de Nuit' (the International Exposition of 1937, with the iconic opposing pavillions of Germany and the Soviet Union near the Eiffel Tower).

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Edvard Munch. Starry Night (‘Stjernenatt’), 1893 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on canvas: 135.6 x 140 cm. Wash on paper study ‘Landscape from Åsgårdstrand/ Starry Night’ at Munchmuseet.

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Lavinia Fontana. Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli, half Length, in an Interior, holding a Dog and surrounded by six of her Children, ca. 1605 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 99 x 133.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, January 2012. Mater familias Bianca degli Utili, wife of the nobleman Pierino Maselli. The epigraph formerly on her tomb in Rome revealed that she died in 1605 at the age of 37 after giving birth to her nineteenth(!) child.

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Gustaf Fjaestad. Hard Rime on Lake Racken (‘Rimfrost på sjön Racken’), ca. 1897 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 55 x 90.5 cm. Auctioned at Stockholms Auktionsverk, December 2016.

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Thomas Lawrence. Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, ca. 1790 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 238.8 x 146.1 cm.

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Johannes Vermeer. A Lady writing, ca. 1665 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 45 x 39.9 cm.

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Angela Fraleigh. As if we had always known, 2008 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on panel: 61 x 91.4 cm.

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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino). The Vision of Ezekiel (‘Ezechiele ha la visione di Dio trasportato dai quattro tetramorfi’), ca. 1518 (Gallerie degli Uffizi - Palazzo Pitti, Florence).

Oil on wood: 40 x 30 cm. He liked Michelangelo.

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Elin Engelsen. Affect (‘Affekt’), 2016 (private collection).

Oil and acrylic on canvas: 150 x 160 cm. Body language.

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