Adriaen Brouwer. Interior of a Tavern (‘Herberginterieur’), ca. 1630 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Oil on wood: 26 x 34.8 cm. Power napping, the key to a long life of peak performance.

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Xevi Solà Serra. Woman in Red, 2015 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 130 x 162 cm.

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El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). View of Toledo, ca. 1596 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 121.3 x 108.6 cm. A rare El Greco landscape (another one lies at Museo del Greco, Toledo).

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Jan van Goyen. The Thunderstorm (‘Das Gewitter’), 1637 (Arp Museum, Remagen).

Oil on wood: 23.5 x 36.5 cm(!).

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Alyssa Monks. Allow, 2012 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on panel: 30.5 x 20.3 cm(!).

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Matthias Weischer. Bath (‘Bad’), 2002 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 103.5 x 82.5 cm. Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst Munich, June 2014. Other version (2003): here.

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Gustaf Fjaestad. Sparkling Winter Landscape with frozen Water (‘Gnistrande vinterlandskap med fruset vatten’), ca. 1920 (private collection).

Oil on panel: 90 x 112 cm. Auctioned at Uppsala Auktionskammare, December 2018.

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Max Beckmann. Self-Portrait in Tuxedo (‘Selbstbildnis im Smoking’), 1927 (Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge/ USA).

Oil on canvas: 139.5 x 95.5 cm.

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Jacobus Vrel. A Woman at a Window waving at a Girl (‘Femme à la fenêtre faisant signe à une fillette’), ca. 1655 (Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris).

Oil on wood: 45.7 x 39.2 cm. Crazy Vrel.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Redhead (‘Rousse - La Toilette’), 1889 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Oil on board: 67 x 54 cm.

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Paulus Potter. In the Pasture, ca. 1649 (Staatliches Museum, Schwerin).

Oil on wood: 27.5 x 36.9 cm.

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Gustav Klimt. Goldfish (to my critics), ca. 1902 (Kunstmuseum Solothurn).

Oil on canvas: 181 x 67 cm.

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Arnout van Albada. Semolina pudding (‘Griesmeelpudding’), 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Egg tempera and oil on masonite: 38.5 x 44 cm.

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Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Windmill, ca. 1917 (Dallas Museum of Art).

Oil on canvas: 101.6 x 96.5 cm.

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Akseli Gallen Kallela. Lake Keitele, 1905 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 53 x 66 cm. Kallela made four 'Lake Keitele' compositions. This one in the National Gallery, one in a private collection, one in the Gallen-Kallela Museum/ Finland, and one in the Lahti Art Museum/ Finland.

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Brian Harte. Hannah, 2016 (artist's portfolio).

Oil on linen: 120 x 70 cm.

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Abbott Handerson Thayer. Margaret McKittrick, ca. 1903 (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields).

Oil on canvas: 59.7 x 58.4 cm. Go to the Indianapolis Museum of Art site to have a look at the elaborate Italian Renaissance-style frame.

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Pieter Claesz. Breakfast Piece (‘Ontbijtje’), 1636 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam).

Oil on wood: 49 x 36 cm.

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Gregorio Lazzarini. Allegory of the restrained Force and Passion (‘Înfrânarea Forței și a Pasiunii’), ca. 1710 (Muzeul de Artă Timișoara/ Timișoara Art Museum).

Oil on canvas: 148 x 215.5 cm. Previously attributed to Pier Francesco Mola and then subsequently to Bernardo Strozzi. Similar version at the Warrington Museum & Art Gallery (‘Reason Ordering Temperance to Restrain Avarice’). Photo credit: Supernaut.

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František Kupka. The Circular and Rectilinear (‘Kruhovité a přímočaré’), 1937 (Národní galerie Praha – Veletržní palác/ National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace).

Oil on canvas: 102 x 102 cm.

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Anthony/ Anthoon/ Anthonis van Dyck. Portrait of Willem II van Oranje-Nassau as a Child (‘Portret van Willem II van Oranje-Nassau als kind’), ca. 1632 (The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).

Oil on canvas: 128.3 x 100.4 cm. Similar (earlier?) version at the Museum Schloss Mosigkau (Dessau). Auctioned at Christie’s New York, January 2011. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, February 2018. 

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Frederick William Elwell. Girl with a Cigarette, 1942 (Harris Museum, Preston).

Oil on canvas: 49.8 x 56 cm. With some serious craquelure.

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Pekka Halonen. Snowy Pine Trees (‘Lumisia mäntyjä’), 1919 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 60.5 x 50.5 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Helsinki, autumn 2013.

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Edvard Munch. New Snow in the Avenue (‘Nysnø i alleen’), 1906 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 100 x 80 cm. Photo credit: Halvor Bjørngård.

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Kazimir Malevich (Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич). Suprematism: non-objective Composition, 1915 (Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts).

Oil on canvas: 80 x 80 cm.

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Anders Zorn. The Shadow (‘Skuggan’), 1909 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 65 x 43.5 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, June 2014.

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Aert Schouman. Still Life with Head of an Ox (‘Stilleven met ossenkop’), 1747 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht).

Oil on canvas: 83.7 x 70 cm.

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