31 December 2020
Pekka Halonen. Snow-decked Pine (‘Luminen Mänty’), 1919 (Kansallisgalleria - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Helsinki).
Oil on canvas: 53 x 38.5 cm.
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Visit > Kansallisgalleria - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Helsinki.
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30 December 2020
George Hendrik Breitner. Girl in white Kimono (‘Meisje in witte kimono’), 1895 (Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede).
Oil on canvas: 58.5 x 55.5 cm.
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28 December 2020
Asger Jorn. Green Ballet, 1960 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).
Oil on canvas: 145 x 200 cm.
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27 December 2020
Jens Ferdinand Willumsen. A Mountain Climber (‘En bjergbestigerske’), 1912 (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen).
Oil on canvas: 235.1 x 194.5 cm. Earlier 1904 version at G.A. Hagemanns Kollegium, Copenhagen.
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26 December 2020
24 December 2020
Cornelis Mahu. Breakfast Still Life with Fish (‘Stilleven met visontbijt’), 1638 (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp).
Oil on oak: 46.5 x 63.5 cm. Previously attributed to Willem Claesz Heda.
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23 December 2020
Michaël Borremans. Lilac Cone, 2020 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: 36 x 30 cm.
Visit > Michaël Borremans at: Zeno X Gallery, David Zwirner.
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20 December 2020
Raoul de Keyser. Passage, 2010 (artist’s portfolio).
Watercolour, acrylic, oil pastel on wooden panel: 20 x 24 cm(!).
Visit > Raoul de Keyser at: Zeno X Gallery, David Zwirner.
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19 December 2020
Akseli Gallen Kallela. The Lair of the Lynx (‘Louhikko harmaa talvipäivä’), 1908 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 100 x 80 cm. Auctioned at Uppsala Auktionskammare, December 2017.
More > Akseli Gallen Kallela at Wikipedia.
18 December 2020
Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. The Ship of Fools (‘Het Narrenschip’/ ‘La Nef des fous’), ca. 1500 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Oil on oak: 58.1 x 32.8 cm. This panel, with ‘Allegory of Gluttony and Lust’ (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven), constituted the inside of a triptych that, when closed, revealed the ‘Wayfarer’ (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam). Restored in 2014-2015 by Agnès Malpel (Département des Peintures du musée du Louvre/ Bosch Research and Conservation Project). The panel had been subjected to overpainting, probably when it was presented as an autonomous painting. The foliage of the branch tied to the mast was considerably enlarged, and the water on which the vessel floats was significantly overpainted. A mountain that closed off the image on the right edge also proved to be a later addition.
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17 December 2020
Lars Elling. Initiation, 2016 (private collection).
Egg-oil tempera on canvas: 170 x 170 cm.
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Visit > Lars Elling at: Galleri Brandstrup.
16 December 2020
Graham Sutherland. Standing Forms II, 1952 (Tate Modern, London).
Oil on canvas: 180 x 141 cm.
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15 December 2020
John Singer Sargent. Mr. and Mrs. I.N. Phelps Stokes, 1897 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 214 x 101 cm.
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14 December 2020
Carl Fredrik Hill. The Lime Quarry (‘Kalkbrottet’), ca. 1876 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 70 x 63 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, autumn 2011.
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13 December 2020
Pieter Aertsen. The Cook (‘De keukenmeid’/ ‘La cuisinière’), 1559 (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels).
Oil on oak: 127.5 x 82 cm. Photo credit: Supernaut. The Genoa cook: here.
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12 December 2020
Francis Bacon. Study for a Bullfight No. 1, 1971 (private collection).
Lithograph on paper: 115 x 126.5 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, October 2013.
More > Francis Bacon at Wikipedia.
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11 December 2020
Jacob van Hulsdonck. A Still Life with Artichokes, Radishes, Asparagus, Plums, Cherries and Peaches in a Basket, ca. 1615 (private collection).
Oil on wood: 71.5 x 104 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, December 2012.
More > Jacob van Hulsdonck at Wikipedia.
10 December 2020
Teodora Axente. The Glance, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: 82 x 60 cm.
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Visit > Teodora Axente at: Galleria Doris Ghetta, Rosenfeld Porcini.
9 December 2020
Walter Moras. A Sunny Winter’s Day (‘Ein Sonniger Wintertag’/ ‘Winterlandschaft mit Personen’), ca. 1900 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 80.5 x 120 cm. Auctioned at Lauritz.com Vejle, June 2011. Auctioned at Dorotheum Vienna, October 2011. Restored.
More > Walter Moras at Wikipedia.
8 December 2020
7 December 2020
Rudolf Schlichter. Portrait of Bertolt Brecht (‘Bildnis Bert Brecht’), ca. 1926 (Lenbachhaus, Munich).
Oil on canvas: 75.5 x 46 cm. Recently united with the portrait of actor/ director wife Helene Weigel: here. Photo credit: Lenbachhaus/Viola Roehr-v. Alvensleben, München.
Visit > Lenbachhaus, Munich.
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6 December 2020
James Ensor Still Life with Knick-Knacks (‘Nature morte aux bibelots’), 1937 (private collection).
Oil on panel: 13.3 x 17.8 cm(!). Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2010.
More > James Ensor at Wikipedia.
5 December 2020
Neil Stokoe. Mirrored optical Staircase and Woman, 1983 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 247.7 x 230 cm. Auctioned at Phillips Auctions London, July 2020.
More > Neil Stokoe at Art UK.
More > Neil Stokoe at: The Piper Gallery, Megan Piper, The Redfern Gallery.
4 December 2020
David Teniers the younger. The Temptation of St. Anthony (‘De verzoeking van de heilige Antonius’), ca. 1650 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Oil on wood: 31 x 23 cm(!).
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3 December 2020
Anton Rooskens. The Dream (‘De Droom’), 1975 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 97.5 x 130 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, October 2012.
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2 December 2020
Ramón Casas. Julia, ca. 1908 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 81.5 x 65.5 cm. The artist’s wife. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, November 2012.
More > Ramón Casas at Wikipedia.
1 December 2020
Auguste Herbin. Non 3, 1952 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 92.2 x 73 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Paris, December 2013.
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30 November 2020
Maerten de Vos. The Rape of Europa, 1590 (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao).
Oil on oak: 133.7 x 174.5 cm.
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29 November 2020
Flora Yukhnovich. Le Mercredi - on s’habille en rose, 2017 (private collection).
Oil on linen: 170 x 240 cm. Flora Yukhnovich (2020): “We live in such an image-saturated time which I think has encouraged louder and more ostentatious aesthetics that feel similar to the Rococo sensibility for excess. I also think there is something quite Rococo about our celebrity culture, and the aspirational pleasure we take in watching the glamorous lives of the super-rich on reality TV”.
Visit > Flora Yukhnovich at: Brocket Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Parafin.
28 November 2020
David Hockney. Winter Tunnel with Snow, 2006 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 91.4 x 121.9 cm.
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Visit > David Hockney at: Annely Juda Fine Art, Gray, Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris, L.A. Louver, Pace Gallery.
More > David Hockney at ArtUK.
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27 November 2020
Gottlieb Schick. Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker (‘Bildnis der Heinrike Dannecker’), 1802 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Oil on canvas: 119 x 100 cm. First wife of German sculptor Johann Heinrich Dannecker. This allusion to the French ‘tricolor’ seems to suggest sympathy for the French revolutionary ideals.
Visit > Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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26 November 2020
Isaak Brodskiy (Исаак Израилевич Бродский). Vladimir Lenin in Smolny, 1930 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Oil on canvas: 190 x 287 cm(!).
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25 November 2020
Isaac Grünewald. Studio with Paintings (‘Ateljén med tavlor’), 1916 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 65 x 81 cm. Auctioned at Uppsala Auktionskammare, December 2016.
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24 November 2020
Amedeo Modigliani. Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, 1916 (Art Institute of Chicago).
Oil on canvas: 81.3 x 54.3 cm.
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