30 June 2020
Vasily Perov (Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Перо́в). Portrait of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, 1871 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
Oil on canvas: 103.5 x 80.7 cm.
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27 June 2020
Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Composition with Color Planes 5, 1917 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 49 x 61.2 cm.
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26 June 2020
Andy Dixon. Our Belongings, 2020 (private collection).
Acrylic on canvas: 135 x 155 cm.
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25 June 2020
Guido Reni. Hippomenes and Atalanta (‘Hipómenes y Atalanta’), ca. 1619 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Oil on canvas: 206 x 297 cm(!). Inspired by Ovid´s Metamorphoses - book X. Similar (later and smaller) version at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.
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24 June 2020
Georges Braque. Still Life with a Basket of Fruit (‘Nature morte à la corbeille de fruits’), 1927 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 53.6 x 93.3 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, May 2014.
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22 June 2020
Edmond Georges Grandjean. Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Elise (‘Haute école, par Mlle Élisa de Vienne’), 1883 (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest).
Oil on canvas: 53 x 43.9 cm. Famous equestrienne Elisa Petzold aka. Elisa de Vienne and Elisa Renz.
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More > Edmond Georges Grandjean at Wikipedia (German).
21 June 2020
Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Devotion (‘Devotie’), 1908 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague).
Oil on canvas: 94 x 61 cm.
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20 June 2020
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Bathers in the Meadows (‘Badende in der Wiese’), 1907 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 71 x 55.9 cm. Reworked in 1926. Auctioned at Christie’s London, February 2017.
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19 June 2020
Rembrandt van Rijn. Lucretia, 1666 (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
Oil on canvas: 110.2 x 92.3 cm.
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17 June 2020
Edvard Munch. Self-Portrait in the Clinic (‘Selvportrett fra klinikken’), 1909 (KODE-3 Art Museums, Bergen).
Oil on canvas: 100.7 x 111 cm.
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16 June 2020
Johannes Vermeer. Girl reading a Letter at an open Window (‘Brieflesendes Mädchen am offenen Fenster’), ca. 1659 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden).
Oil on canvas: 83 x 64.5 cm. Currently being restored (overpainted cupid on the wall).
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13 June 2020
Jan Havicksz Steen. A Card Players Brawl (‘Streit beim Kartenspiel’), ca. 1660 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).
Oil on canvas: 84.3 x 117.3 cm.
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Henri Matisse. The Joy of Life (‘Le bonheur de vivre’), 1906 (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Oil on canvas: 176.5 x 240.7 cm. With mural characteristics. Photo credit: Regan Vercruysse.
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12 June 2020
11 June 2020
George Spencer Watson. A Study from Life, 1928 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 96.2 x 50.8 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, May 2012. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, February 2020.
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10 June 2020
El Lissitzky (Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий). Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, 1919 (private collection).
Lithograph print on paper: ca. 50 x 69 cm.
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9 June 2020
Carl Fredrik Hill. Gravel Slope (‘Grusbacke’), 1876 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Oil on canvas: 64 x 81 cm.
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8 June 2020
John Singer Sargent. Miss Priestley, ca. 1889 (Tate Britain, London).
Oil on canvas: 91.4 x 63.5 cm. Rubber wrists.
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7 June 2020
James Ensor. Shells and Chinoiseries (‘Coquillages et chinoiseries’), ca. 1930 (private collection).
Oil on panel: 26.5 x 36.5 cm. Auctioned at De Vuyst Lokeren, October 2007.
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6 June 2020
Nicolas Poussin. The Birth of Venus, 1637 (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Oil on canvas: 97.2 x 108 cm.
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5 June 2020
Frédéric Bazille. Young Woman with Peonies (‘Femme aux pivoines’/ ‘Négresse aux pivoines’), 1870 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Oil on canvas: 60 x 75 cm. In the manner of Manet.
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4 June 2020
Jean Colombe. Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry - November ('Très riches heures du Duc de Berry - Novembre'), ca. 1485 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).
Manuscript illumination/ miniature on vellum: ca. 16.2 x 13.6 cm(!). Detail.
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3 June 2020
Frans Floris (de Vriendt). Pomona, ca. 1565 (Hallwylska museet, Stockholm).
Oil on canvas: 115.5 x 134 cm.
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2 June 2020
Frank Nitsche. BOT-18-2004, 2004 (Tate Britain, London).
Oil on canvas: 200.6 x 160.2 cm.
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Visit > Frank Nitsche at: Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Galerie Max Hetzler, Koenig & Clinton.
More > Frank Nitsche at Wikipedia (German).
1 June 2020
Wayne Thiebaud. Two kneeling Figures, 1966 (private collection, USA).
Oil on canvas: 152.4 x 182.9 cm. Collection of Betty Jean Thiebaud/ Paul LeBaron Thiebaud Trust, Sacramento.
Visit > Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco.
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