30 June 2018
Paul Gauguin. The Wave (‘La vague’), 1888 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 60.2 x 72.6 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2018 (Rockefeller collection).
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29 June 2018
Eduard Friedrich Leybold (attributed). Portrait of a young Lady in a red Dress, 1824 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 122.3 x 97.1 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, December 2011.
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28 June 2018
Andy Dixon. Expensive Painting - Vanitas, 2016 (private collection).
Acrylic/ mixed media on canvas: 162.6 x 162.6 cm.
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Visit > Andy Dixon at: Beers London, Winsor Gallery.
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26 June 2018
Teodora Axente. Red Bends, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: 197 x 132 cm.
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Visit > Teodora Axente at: Galleria Doris Ghetta, Rosenfeld Porcini.
Nicolas de Staël. Composition in Black and White - The Sett (‘Composition en noir et blanc - Les pavés’), 1951.
Oil on canvas: 50 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Paris, June 2018.
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23 June 2018
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski). The White Dress (‘La jupe blanche’), 1937 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 130 x 162 cm.
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22 June 2018
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. A Montrouge - Rosa La Rouge, 1887 (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Oil on canvas: 72.1 x 48.6 cm. Same session/ model: here and here.
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21 June 2018
Jeffrey T. Larson. 1lb, 2015 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on linen: 40.6 x 40.6 cm.
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Visit > Jeffrey T. Larson at: Collins Galleries, Helena Fox Fine Art.
20 June 2018
19 June 2018
Peder Mørk Mønsted. Glimpse of the Sun in Sæby Stream, 1916 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 83 x 123 cm. Mønsted = guilty pleasure. Auctioned at Bruun Rasmussen Copenhagen, June 2012.
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15 June 2018
Robert Campin. A Woman, ca. 1435 (National Gallery, London).
Oil and egg tempera on oak: 40.6 x 28.1 cm. Unidentified sitter. Part of a double portrait ‘A Man and a Woman’, presumably husband and wife.
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Gustav Klimt. Lady with Hat and Feather Boa (‘Dame mit Hut und Federboa’), 1909 (private collection, Austria).
Oil on canvas: 69 x 55 cm. Similar provenance as ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I’ and ‘Unfinished Portrait of Ria Munk III’. Confiscated by the Nazi regime during WWII. After the war the painting was incorporated into the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. Restituted in 2001 to heir’s estate at the recommendation of an Austrian government committee. Then privately sold for over € 20.000.000 (ca. US$ 24.500.000).
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14 June 2018
Ludovic Alleaume. Pomona (‘Pomone’), 1929 (Musée d’arts de Nantes).
Oil on canvas: 116.3 x 89 cm.
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13 June 2018
Yuri Bosko (Ю́рий Ива́нович Боско). On the Volga, 1967 (private collection).
Oil on canvas on board: 200 x 167.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, June 2018 (unsold).
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David Teniers the younger. The rich Man being led to Hell, ca. 1647 (National Gallery, London).
Oil on oak: 48 x 69 cm. In accordance with the biblical account, and deriving from Hieronymus Bosch.
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12 June 2018
Karin Kneffel. Untitled, 2014 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: 180 x 270 cm(!).
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Visit > Karin Kneffel at: Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Gagosian.
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Gérard Schlosser. We redid Everything (‘On a tout refait’), 2002 (private collection).
Acrylic on canvas: 130 x 130 cm. Auctioned at the Tajan Paris, May 2016. Reworked from a 1970s photo session: here.
Visit > Gérard Schlosser at Galerie Laurent Strouk.
More > Gérard Schlosser at Wikipedia (French).
11 June 2018
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri). The Hunt of Diana (‘La caccia di Diana’), 1617 (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
Oil on canvas: 225 x 320 cm(!). Photo credit: Hen Magonza.
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10 June 2018
Francis Bacon. Study for Portrait, 1977 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 198.2 x 147.7 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2018.
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8 June 2018
Carl Rottmann. Pronoia - Greece, 1847 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil and resin on plaster board: 161.7 x 205.4 cm.
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5 June 2018
François Boucher. Resting Girl (‘Ruhendes Mädchen’), 1752 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil on canvas: 59 x 73 cm. Model presumed to be Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737-1814), mistress to Louis XV. Earlier version at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne (with a book and two roses): here.
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3 June 2018
Jan Massys (Massijs/ Matsys/ Metsys). The ill-matched Pair, 1566 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Oil on wood: 97 x 134 cm. Son of the leading Antwerp painter Quinten Matsys (Massys/ Massijs/ Metsys).
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2 June 2018
Frank Nitsche. BIL-38-2015, 2015 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 300 x 280 cm(!).
Visit > Frank Nitsche at: Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Galerie Max Hetzler, Koenig & Clinton.
More > Frank Nitsche at Wikipedia (German).
1 June 2018
Domenico Beccafumi. Venus and Cupid, ca. 1530 (New Orleans Museum of Art).
Oil on linden: 128 x 96.5 cm. In his bold, irrational and somewhat unbalanced Sienese style.
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