30 September 2020
Brett Whiteley. Big orange Sunset, 1974 (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney).
Oil and collage on wood: 244 x 305 cm(!).
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29 September 2020
Ivan Shishkin (Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин). In the Middle of the Valley, 1883 (Kiev National Museum of Russian Art).
Oil on canvas: 136.5 x 203.4 cm.
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28 September 2020
Anders Zorn. Old Mirror (‘Gammal spegel’), 1915 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 122 x 92 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, June 2020.
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27 September 2020
Mario Nubauer. Cut it, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil, lacquer, charcoal, graphite, shellac ink on canvas: 180 x 200 cm.
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26 September 2020
Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Blind leading the Blind, ca. 1568 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).
Distemper on linen: 86 x 154 cm. Also known as ‘Parable of the Blind’. The museum has a good-quality copy by an unidentified late 16th-century Flemish painter (formerly attributed to Bruegel’s son Pieter Brueghel the younger). Another copy by another unidentified painter is at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.
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Jenna Gribbon. Stephanie as Anne of Avonlea, 2020 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: ca. 27.9 x. 35.6 cm.
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25 September 2020
Jan Asselijn. The threatened Swan (‘De bedreigde zwaan’), 1650 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Oil on canvas: 144 x 171 cm. Photo credit: Hen Magonza.
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22 September 2020
Alexej von Jawlensky (Алексей Георгиевич Явленский). Woman’s Head (‘Vrouwenkop’), ca. 1911 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague).
Oil on board: 55.2 x 51.3 cm.
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20 September 2020
Johannes Rian. Composition (‘Komposisjon’), 1976 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: ca. 90 x 75 cm. Auctioned at at Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner Oslo, June 2003 (unsold).
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19 September 2020
Richard Müller. Dancer with Tambourine and Bear (‘Tänzerin mit Tamburin und Bär’), ca. 1940 (private collection).
Oil on wood panel: 30 x 23.2 cm(!). Auctioned at Auktionshaus Lempertz Cologne, November 2019.
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Francis Bacon. Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, 1963 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 165.1 x 142.2 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, February 2012. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2015. Price tag: US$ 47.765.000 (ca. € 38.500.000).
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18 September 2020
Claude-Marie Dubufe. The Surprise, ca. 1825 (National Gallery, London).
Oil on canvas: 65.2 x 54.3 cm. Probably inspired by or referring to the ‘Venus de' Medici’ (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
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17 September 2020
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Sea Snails and black Vase (‘Meerschnecken und schwarze Vase‘), 1953 (Brücke-Museum, Berlin).
Oil on canvas: 76 x 90 cm.
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16 September 2020
Paul Gabriël. It comes from afar ('Il vient de loin'/ 'Hij komt van ver'), ca. 1887 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
Oil on canvas: 67 x 100 cm.
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15 September 2020
Egon Schiele. Portrait of Edith (‘Portret van Edith’), 1915 (Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague).
Oil on canvas: 180.2 x 110.1 cm. The artist’s wife Edith Schiele-Harms.
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14 September 2020
Jean-Siméon Chardin. The White Tablecloth, 1732 (Art Institute of Chicago).
Oil on canvas: 96.8 x 123.5 cm.
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12 September 2020
Victor Gabriël Gilbert. The Harvest (‘La moisson’), ca. 1890 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 46 x 55.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, April 2008. Update June 2022: Now at the Arkas Sanat Merkezi, Izmir.
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James Ensor. Masks confronting Death (‘Masques raillant la mort’), 1888 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 81.3 x 100.3 cm.
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11 September 2020
10 September 2020
Erik Bulatov (Эрик Владимирович Булатов). Red Horizon, 1972 (Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Moscow).
Oil on canvas: 140 x 180 cm.
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7 September 2020
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola). The Fall of Saint Paul (‘Paulussturz’), ca. 1528 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 177.5 x 128.5 cm.
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6 September 2020
Xevi Solà Serra. Marta, 2020 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil on canvas: 100 x 81 cm.
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5 September 2020
Gerrit Dou. A sleeping Dog beside a Terra-Cotta Jug, a Basket and a Pile of kindling Wood, 1650 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Oil on wood: 16.5 x 21.6 cm(!). Sold in 2005 by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation (Orange/ Texas). Then in the Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo Collection (Naples, Massachusetts). Donated to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in October 2017.
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3 September 2020
Michaël Borremans. The Branch, 2003 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 80 x 60 cm.
Visit > Michaël Borremans at: Zeno X Gallery, David Zwirner.
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2 September 2020
Nicolas Poussin. A Dance to the Music of Time, ca. 1635 (The Wallace Collection, London).
Oil on canvas: 82.5 x 104 cm.
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1 September 2020
Vincent van Gogh. Orchards in Blossom - View of Arles (‘Bloeiende boomgaarden - gezicht op Arles’), 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
Oil on canvas: 53.5 x 65.5 cm. The influence of Japanese prints.
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