31 December 2019
Vilhelms Purvītis. Winter ('Ziema'), 1910 (Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs, Riga).
Oil on cardboard: 71.3 x 101.8 cm.
And a happy new year...
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29 December 2019
Anton Rooskens. Untitled, 1974 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 97 x 130 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, November 2016.
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28 December 2019
Alma Erdmann. Schwarzwald Woman (‘Schwarzwälderin’), 1899 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Oil on canvas: 120 x 96 cm. Photo credit: Supernaut.
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Jules Laurens. The Blue mosque of Tauris in Persia (‘La Mosquée bleue à Tauris en Perse’), 1872 (Musée Fabre, Montpellier).
Oil on canvas: 110 x 165 cm. From his three-year journey through the Middle East in the late 1840s. This work was painted almost 25 years after the journey, based on his meticulous drawings.
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24 December 2019
Harmen Steenwijck. Vanitas Still Life (‘Vanitas-stilleven’), ca. 1650 (Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden).
Oil on wood: 37.4 x 38.2 cm.
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23 December 2019
Jean Fouquet. Virgin and Child surrounded by Angels (‘Madonna omringd door Serafijnen en Cherubijnen’), ca. 1450 (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp).
Oil on wood: 94.5 x 85.5 cm. Melun Diptych.
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21 December 2019
Jonathan Viner. Meet Me in Helsinki, 2015 (private collection).
Oil on panel: 91.4 x 121.9 cm.
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19 December 2019
Melchior d'Hondecoeter. Peacocks, 1683 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 190 x 135 cm. The one with the sneezy squirrel.
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18 December 2019
Léon Cogniet. King Metabus of the Volsci (‘Métabus roi des Volsques’), 1821 (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres).
Oil on canvas: 291 x 210 cm(!). Restored May 2016.
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17 December 2019
Amedeo Modigliani. Beatrice (‘Portrait de Béatrice Hastings’), 1916 (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Oil on canvas: 55.2 x 38.2 cm.
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16 December 2019
Eric Wert. Satsuma, 2011 (private collection).
Oil on panel: 22.9 x 30.5 cm(!).
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15 December 2019
Rembrandt van Rijn. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (‘De anatomische les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp’), 1632 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).
Oil on canvas: 169.5 x 216.5 cm.
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14 December 2019
Nicolas de Staël. Landscape - La Ciotat (‘Paysage - La Ciotat’), 1952 (private collection).
Oil on board: 38 x 55 cm. Auctioned at Versailles Enchères, December 2018.
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12 December 2019
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Meadow Flowers and Cat (‘Wiesenblumen und Katze’), 1932 (Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Oil on canvas: 157 x 110 cm.
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11 December 2019
Frits Thaulow. Watermill, 1892 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Oil on canvas: 81.3 x 121 cm. The watermill along the banks of the river Canche in Montreuil-sur-Mer. Remains of the former mill can still be found at the Rue du Moulin du Bacon. Similar version ‘Bak møllene, Montreuil-sur-Mer’ (1892) auctioned at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, May 2011.
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10 December 2019
Johannes Vermeer. The Lacemaker (‘La Dentellière’), 1670 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Oil on canvas: 24.5 x 21 cm(!). The smallest painting Vermeer ever painted. Poetry of silence.
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9 December 2019
Frank Nitsche. EGO-01-2008, 2008 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 200 x 174.6 cm.
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8 December 2019
Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов). Girl with a Putting Shot, 1933 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Oil on canvas: 124 x 65 cm.
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7 December 2019
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The Repose (‘Le repos’), 1860 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Oil on canvas: 84 x 127 cm. Reworked ca. 1865/ 1870. From the defunct Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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6 December 2019
Giovanni Battista Moroni. The Tailor (‘Il tagliapanni’), ca. 1570 (National Gallery, London).
Oil on canvas: 99.5 x 77 cm.
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4 December 2019
Félix Vallotton. Pink and red Tulips (‘Tulipes roses et rouges’), 1912 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 81 x 65 cm. Auctioned at Koller Zürich, June 2019.
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3 December 2019
Lars Elling. The Garden (‘Hagen’), 2014 (artist’s portfolio).
Egg-oil tempera on canvas: 170 x 170 cm.
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Pekka Halonen. Wintry Landscape (‘Talvinen Maisema’), 1911 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 73 x 53 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Helsinki, December 2018.
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2 December 2019
Anthony/ Anthoon/ Anthonis van Dyck. Samson and Delilah (‘Gefangennahme Simsons’), ca. 1630 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 146 x 254 cm(!). A dramatic gesture of disbelief.
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