31 March 2021
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Trapeze Artist at the Medrano Circus, 1888 (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge/ USA).
Gouache on cardboard: 79.7 x 60.4 cm.
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30 March 2021
Gerard de Lairesse. Apollo and Aurora, 1671 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Oil on canvas: 204.5 x 193.4 cm.
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29 March 2021
Chantal Joffe. Moll, 2010 (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
Oil on plywood board: 279.4 x 203.2 cm(!).
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Visit > Chantal Joffe at: Victoria Mirio, Cheim & Read, Galerie Forsblom, Monica de Cardenas Galleria.
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28 March 2021
Markus Lüpertz. Child Witch (‘Hexenkind’), 1988 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 250 x 200 cm(!). Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst Munich, December 2015.
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27 March 2021
Kerry James Marshall. You must suffer if you want to be beautiful, 1991 (private collection).
Mixed media and collage on canvas: 193.3 x 141.9 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2018.
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26 March 2021
Jean-Eugène Buland. Parent's Happiness (‘Bonheur des parents’/ ‘Elternglück’/ ‘Mann mit stillender Frau’), 1903 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 97.5 x 129 cm. Sentimentalism. Auctioned at Neumeister Kunstauktionshaus Munich, March 2010.
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25 March 2021
Michaël Borremans. Pink and purple Cone, 2020 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 37 x 47 cm.
Visit > Michaël Borremans at: Zeno X Gallery, David Zwirner.
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24 March 2021
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (attributed). A Shepherdess playing the Flute, ca. 1720 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 95 x 77 cm (possibly reduced). Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, December 2017. The modern looking composition is due to a restoration. The work is thought to have been part of a larger canvas, as the roughly cut right-hand edge would suggest. Great ear.
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23 March 2021
Anton Rooskens. Birds in a Landscape, 1972 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 100 x 81 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, November 2014.
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22 March 2021
Joshua Reynolds. Portrait of Sarah Campbell, 1778 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/ USA).
Oil on canvas: 127.6 x 101.6 cm.
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21 March 2021
Johann Erdmann Hummel. Grinding of the Granite Bowl for Berlin Lustgarten, 1831 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).
Oil on board: 46 x 75 cm.
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20 March 2021
Lisa Brice. Smoke and Mirrors, 2020 (artist’s portfolio).
Ink, gesso, synthetic tempera, chalk, oil pastel, and oil on canvas: 200 x 329.9 cm(!). Lisa Brice (2018): “As a figurative painter it is significant that historical figuration seems invariably created by white men for an audience of predominantly white men. Sometimes the simple act of repainting an image of a woman previously painted by a man – re-authoring the work as by a woman – can be a potent shift in itself. Inserting props such as cigarettes or bottles of alcohol (as seen in Edouard Manet and Félix Vallotton’s paintings), or using strong colour to tweak the slant of eyes or mouth can further transform the figures from objectified to quietly self-possessed, matter-of-fact or provocative subjects”.
Visit > Lisa Brice at: Stephen Friedman Gallery, Salon 94.
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19 March 2021
Karl Hofer. Girl with Amaryllis (‘Mädchen mit Amaryllis’), ca. 1936 (private collection).
Oil on paper: 91 x 71 cm. Auctioned at Van Ham Cologne, June 2015.
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17 March 2021
Daniel Clowes. The White Ox of Nannau, 1824 (National Museum Wales, Cardiff).
Oil on wood: 78 x 104 cm.
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16 March 2021
Egon Schiele. Reclining female Nude (‘Liegender weiblicher Akt‘/ ‘Ležící ženský akt‘), 1917 (Moravská galerie, Brno).
Charcoal, pencil and gouache on paper: 29.7 x 46.3 cm.
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15 March 2021
Lars Elling. Infanta II, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).
Egg-oil tempera on canvas: 170 x 170 cm.
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Visit > Lars Elling at: Galleri Brandstrup.
14 March 2021
François Boucher. The Triumph of Venus, 1740 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Oil on canvas: 130 x 162 cm.
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13 March 2021
Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов). Soviet Sports, 1935 (Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts).
Oil on canvas: 121 x 121 cm. Design for the Soviet pavilion opposing Germany at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris.
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12 March 2021
Edvard Munch. Red and White (‘Rødt og hvitt’), ca. 1900 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).
Oil on canvas: 129.5 x 93.5 cm.
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11 March 2021
Hugo van der Goes. Diptych with The Fall of Man (‘Diptychon mit Sündenfall’), ca. 1480 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on oak: 33.8 x 22.9 cm(!). Complete diptych: 41 x 61.5 cm. In the end things didn’t work out for Van der Goes. He had a mental breakdown and declared himself to be damned.
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10 March 2021
Diego Velázquez. Infanta Margarita Teresa in a blue Dress (‘Infantin Margarita Teresa in blauem Kleid’), 1659 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 125.5 x 106 cm. Margaret Theresa of Spain, the blonde princess as depicted in ‘Las Meninas’ (1656). Given in marriage to emperor Leopold I (who was her maternal uncle and paternal cousin).
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9 March 2021
Peder Severin and Marie Krøyer. Double Portrait of Marie and P.S. Krøyer (‘Dobbeltportræt af Marie og P.S. Krøyer’), 1890 (Skagens Museum).
Oil on canvas: 15 x 18.7 cm(!). Trouble in Skagen paradise.
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8 March 2021
Paul Klee. Hardy Plants, 1934 (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
Oil on pulpboard: 41 x 54.9 cm.
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7 March 2021
Gustav Klimt. Judith I, 1901 (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 84 x 42 cm.
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5 March 2021
Melchior d’Hondecoeter. A Peacock and Pea Hen and other Birds in a Landscape, ca. 1680 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 149.9 x 179 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, June 2017.
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4 March 2021
Jean-Étienne Liotard. The Chocolate Girl ('La Belle Chocolatière'), ca. 1745 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden).
Pastel on parchment: 82.5 x 52.5 cm.
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3 March 2021
Vincent van Gogh. Olive Grove ('Olijfgaard'), 1889 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
Oil on canvas: 72.4 x 91.9 cm.
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2 March 2021
Francis Bacon. Three Figures and a Portrait, 1975 (Tate Britain, London).
Oil and pastel on canvas: 198.1 x 147.3 cm.
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1 March 2021
Lucas Cranach the elder. The Fall of Man (‘Sündenfall’), ca. 1540 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on beech: 53.3 x 37.1 cm.
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