30 October 2018
Lee Price. Pink Cupcake I, 2014 (private collection).
Oil on linen: 177.8 x 76.2 cm.
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28 October 2018
Karl Hofer. The Green Dress (‘Im grünen Kleid’), 1943 (private collection).
Oil on panel: 68 x 49.3 cm. Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst Munich, June 2018.
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Anders Zorn. Opal, 1891 (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester/ USA).
Oil on canvas: 100.3 x 69.5 cm.
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27 October 2018
26 October 2018
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. Valencian Fisherwomen (‘Pescadoras Valencianas’), 1903 (Diputación Provincial, Valencia).
Oil on canvas: 93 x 126 cm. Photo credit: Ramón Muñoz.
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24 October 2018
Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Composition No. IV (‘Compositie no. IV’), 1914 (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague).
Oil on canvas: 88 x 61 cm. Update (2019): As of October 2019 known as Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
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23 October 2018
Hermann Reimer. Salon, 2013 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: 80 x 100 cm.
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Visit > Hermann Reimer at: Galerie Steinrötter, ArtBourse, Galerie Lauth.
Johannes Rian. Blue Nude (‘Blå akt’), ca. 1955 (private collection).
Oil on board: 46 x 38 cm. Auctioned at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, November 2007.
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22 October 2018
Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus (‘Nascita di Venere’), ca. 1485 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Tempera on canvas: 172.5 x 278.5 cm(!). The title was given to the painting in the 19th century. It is now believed that it doesn't represent the birth of Venus but her land on the island of Cyprus.
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21 October 2018
Jacob Savery the younger. Noah’s Ark (‘L’arche de Noé’), ca. 1620 (private collection).
Oil on wood: 74 x 104 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, June 2014. Attributed to the obscure Dutch-Flemish painter Jacob Jacobsz Savery (1593 - >1651), son of Jacob/ Jacques Maertensz Savery (ca. 1565 - 1603).
18 October 2018
15 October 2018
James Ensor. Pierrot in despair (‘Le désespoir de Pierrot’/ ‘De bedroefde Pierrot’), ca. 1910 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
Oil on canvas: 66.3 x 84.2 cm. Signed 1892, but thought to be painted around 1910. A larger copy (collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Berg) auctioned at Christie’s Paris, February 2009.
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12 October 2018
Wayne Thiebaud. Girl with Ice Cream Cone, 1963 (Hirshhorn Museum, Washington).
Oil on canvas: 122.2 x 92.1 cm. The artist’s wife Betty Jean Carr (1929-2015). Photo credit: Rein Coppens.
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11 October 2018
Ramón Casas. Julia in Dark Red (‘Júlia en granate’), ca. 1906 (private collection, Barcelona).
Oil on canvas: 64 x 57 cm. The artist’s wife. Photo credit: Ramón Muñoz. More portraits: here and here.
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10 October 2018
Eric Wert. Still Life with Flemish Tapestry, ca. 2015 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on panel: 61 x 76.2 cm.
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Visit > Eric Wert at: Gallery Henoch, William Baczek Fine Arts, Miller Gallery.
8 October 2018
6 October 2018
George Stubbs. Zebra, 1763 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Oil on canvas: 102.9 x 127.6 cm.
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Jan Sluijters. Greet van Cooten, 1910 (Singer Laren).
Oil on canvas: 42 x 33.5 cm. Future wife Margaretha Frederika van Cooten (1885-1967). Collection Nardinc.
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5 October 2018
Flora Yukhnovich. Boucher’s Flesh, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on linen: 215 x 180 cm. Flora Yukhnovich (2018): “My current body of work grew out my awareness of my own prejudices towards aesthetics deemed to be feminine. I realised that this was because the aesthetic attributes which we understand to be feminine were not at all true to my lived experience of being female”.
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3 October 2018
Juan Gris. Guitar and Newspaper (‘Guitare et journal’), 1925 (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid).
Oil on canvas: 65 x 81 cm.
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Hans Memling. Portrait of Tommaso di Folco Portinari and Maria Portinari, ca. 1470 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Oil on wood. Overall measurements: 44.1 x 67.7 cm. Painted surface with trompe-l’oeil frames: ca. 42.2 x 32 cm each. Husband and wife, dressed in the height of fashion. Originally a triptych with a central devotional image of the Virgin and Child (the centerpiece has been assumed lost). Interesting read at Metropolitan Technical Notes. Researchers chose to not further interpret the XRF Calcium distribution map.
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2 October 2018
Peter Paul Rubens. The four Rivers of Paradise (‘Die vier Flüsse des Paradieses’), ca. 1615 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 208 x 283 cm(!). Also interpreted as depicting female personifications of the four continents sitting with their respective major rivers. Clockwise starting at the front: Africa and the Nile, Europe and the Danube, America and the Río de la Plata, and Asia and the Ganges.
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1 October 2018
Young Do Jeong. Sky is blue and there’s nothing I can do, 2018 (PKM Gallery, Seoul).
Mixed media on linen: 208 x 185 cm.
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