30 July 2020
Egon Schiele. Standing Nude with Stockings (‘Stehendes nacktes Mädchen‘/ ‘Stehender weiblicher Akt mit Strümpfen‘), 1914 (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg).
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper: 48.3 x 32.2 cm. Verso shining through.
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29 July 2020
David Teniers the younger. Tavern Scene with Smokers (‘Peasant lighting his Pipe’), ca. 1645 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Oil on oak: 23.9 x 19 cm(!). Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, Autumn 2012.
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27 July 2020
Mai Volfovich Dantsig (Май Вольфович Данциг). A sunny Day, 1965 (The Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis).
Oil on canvas: 188 x 208.3 cm.
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25 July 2020
Ambrosius Bosschaert. Flower Still Life, 1614 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Oil on copper: 30.5 x 38.9 cm.
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Władysław Czachórski. Portrait of a Girl with Laurel Wreath, ca. 1900 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 34 x 27.5 cm. Auctioned at Dorotheum Vienna, June 2020.
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24 July 2020
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22 July 2020
Cristina Troufa. Voyeur No. 3, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).
Acrylic on canvas: 80 x 80 cm.
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21 July 2020
Rembrandt van Rijn. Man in Oriental Dress (‘Man in oosterse kleding’), 1635 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Oil on wood: 72 x 54.5 cm.
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19 July 2020
August Strindberg. The Birch Tree I - Autumn (‘Björken I - Höst’), 1902 (private collection).
Oil on wood panel: 33 x 23 cm(!). Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, Spring 2012.
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18 July 2020
Leo Putz. The Picnic, 1903 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 169 x 175.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, November 2012. Similar version (1904) at the Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
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Amedeo Modigliani. Jeanne Hébuterne, 1919 (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Oil on canvas: 100.3 x 65.4 cm.
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17 July 2020
Johannes Rian. Out in the Room (‘Ut i rommet’), 1972 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 80 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, December 2002. Auctioned at Blomqvist Nettauksjon Fornebu, November 2019.
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16 July 2020
Italo-Flemish School. A Portrait of a Gentleman standing beside a framed Portrait of a Lady, 17th century (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 104 x 91.1 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, April 2020.
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15 July 2020
Manuel Mathieu. Irma, 2017 (private collection).
Mixed media on canvas: 228.6 x 190.5 cm.
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14 July 2020
Paul (Hippolyte) Delaroche. The Conquerors of the Bastille in front of the City Hall 14 July 1789 (‘Les vainqueurs de la Bastille devant l'Hôtel de Ville le 14 juillet 1789’), ca. 1837 (Petit Palais, Paris).
Oil on canvas: 400 x 435 cm(!). Restored in 2015.
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13 July 2020
Alexander Deyneka/ Deineka (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Дейне́ка). Sportswoman tying a Ribbon, 1951 (Institute of Russian Realist Art, Moscow).
Charcoal and sanguine on paper: 99 x 79 cm. Study for ‘The Bather’ (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).
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10 July 2020
Billy Al Bengston. Lester, 1961 (private collection).
Oil, polymer and lacquer on masonite: 121.9 x 118.1 cm. Auctioned at Bonhams Los Angeles, February 2020.
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9 July 2020
Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-portrait, 1895 (Västra Nylands museum/ Länsi-Uudenmaan museo, Raseborg).
Oil on canvas. 38 x 31 cm.
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8 July 2020
7 July 2020
Frits Thaulow. A Stream in Springtime (‘French Spring Landscape’), 1901 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 46.4 x 54.3 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, April 2018.
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6 July 2020
Georges Clairin. Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, 1876 (Petit Palais, Paris).
Oil on canvas: 250 x 200 cm(!). Showbusiness enters the arts.
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5 July 2020
Graham Sutherland. Thorn Trees, 1945 (British Council Collection, London).
Oil on canvas: 127 x 101.5 cm.
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3 July 2020
Paul Gauguin. Two Tahitian Women (‘Deux Tahitiennes’/ ‘Tahitiennes au Mango’), 1899 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 94 x 72.4 cm. The two figures also appear in 'Tahiti is a wonderful Land - Gathering Fruit', 1899: here.
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2 July 2020
Sandro Botticelli. Calumny of Apelles (‘La calunnia di Apelle’/ ‘Allegoria della calunnia’), ca. 1494 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence).
Tempera on wood: 62 x 91 cm.
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