Jheronimus/ Hieronymus Bosch. Saint John the Baptist (‘Meditaciones de San Juan Bautista’/ ‘Heilige Johannes de doper’), ca. 1490 (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 48.5 x 40.5 cm. The odd plant next to Saint John was painted over a kneeling male figure. This man was probably a patron who was supposed to fund a private altarpiece with separate panels. A defaulter removed.

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Juan Gris. Violin before an open Window (‘Die Violine vor dem offenen Fenster’/ ‘Le violon devant la fenêtre ouverte’), 1926 (Kunsthalle Bremen).

Oil on canvas: 54.3 x 65.2 cm.

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Bernardo Torrens. Sandra in the Pool, 2014 (artist’s portfolio).

Acrylic on wood: 73.7 x 147.3 cm.

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Antoine Chintreuil. The Rain Shower (‘Der Regenschauer‘), ca. 1868 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).

Oil on canvas: 96 x 133.5 cm.

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Wout Schram. Reclining Nude in front of a Window (‘Liggend naakt voor het raam’), 1931 (Museum Arnhem).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 165.5 cm. Photo credit: Peter Cox.

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Max Pechstein. Autumn Evening (‘Herbstabend’), 1927 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 80.6 x 100 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, November 2007. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, March 2017.

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El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). The Vision of Saint John, ca. 1614 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 222.3 x 193 cm. Originally an altarpiece referred to as 'Profane Love', and later renamed 'The Opening of the Fifth Seal'. Its modern composition is due to a restoration around 1880 when the upper portion of the canvas was cut down. It makes so much sense that this painting was the inspiration for 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'.

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Jacobus/ Jacob Vrel. Interior with a Woman combing a little Girl’s Hair, ca. 1660 (Detroit Institute of Arts).

Oil on oak: 55.9 x 40.6 cm. Close to modern.

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Nöel-Nicolas Coypel. The Rape of Europa, 1722 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond/ USA).

Oil on canvas: 90.2 x 102.2 cm. Nöel-Nicolas Coypel (1690-1734): son of Noël Coypel (1628-1707) and half-brother to the more-famous painter Antoine Coypel (1661-1722).

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Matthias Weischer. Olympia, 2020 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 30 x 40 cm. Reworked.

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Charley Toorop. Self-Portrait ('Zelfportret'), 1954 (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).

Oil on canvas: 62 x 43 cm.

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Maurice Brianchon. Nude in red Stockings (‘Nu aux bas rouges’), 1958 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 65.7 x 149.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, May 2020.

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Edvard Munch. Dance on the Shore (‘Tanec na břehu’), 1900 (Národní galerie Praha – Veletržní palác/ National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace).

Oil on canvas: 95.5 x 98.5 cm.

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Diego Velázquez. Philip IV on Horseback (‘Felipe IV, a caballo’), ca. 1635 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 303 x 317 cm(!).

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Bernardino Mei. Ghismunda, ca. 1655 (Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena).

Oil on canvas: 66.5 x 47.5 cm. From Boccaccio’s Decamerone. Ghismunda, the daughter of Prince Tancredi of Salerno, had a secret affair. Her father had her lover killed and his heart sent to Ghismunda in a golden chalice.

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Paulus Potter. The Piebald Horse, ca. 1654 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on canvas: 50.2 x 45.1 cm.

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Laurie Lee Brom. Dressed up with nowhere to go, 2020 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on linen: 61 x 76.2 cm. Model, actor, artist Olive Glass.

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Johannes Vermeer. The Art of Painting (‘Die Malkunst’), ca. 1667 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 120 x 100 cm.

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Willem Claesz Heda. Breakfast Piece, 1646 (Hallwylska museet, Stockholm).

Oil on wood: 52 x 68 cm.

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Pablo Picasso. Pedro Mañach, 1901 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).

Oil on canvas: 105.5 x 70.2 cm.

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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri). Personification of Astrology, ca. 1650 (Blanton Museum of Art, Austin).

Oil on canvas: 80.6 x 65.4 cm.

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Graham Sutherland. Wood Interior, 1961 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 112 x 86 cm.

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Hans Grundig. Girl with pink Hat (‘Mädchen mit Rosa Hut’), 1925 (George Economou collection, Athens).

Oil on cardboard: 70.4 x 50 cm.

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry. A Hare and a Leg of Lamb, 1742 (Cleveland Museum of Art).

Oil on canvas: 98.2 x 73.5 cm. The Dürer and Hoffmann hares: here and here.

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Samuel van Hoogstraten. The Slippers (‘De pantoffels’/ ‘Les Pantoufles’), ca. 1660 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 103 x 70 cm.

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Egon Schiele. Portrait of Wally Neuzil (‘Bildnis Wally Neuzil’), 1912 (Leopold Museum, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 32 x 39.8 cm.

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Anne Vallayer-Coster. Still Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals (‘Panaches de mer, lithophytes et coquilles’), 1769 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 130 x 97 cm.

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Robin F. Williams. Your good Taste is showing, 2017 (artist's portfolio).

Acrylic, airbrush and oil on canvas: 183 x 183 cm. With a Balthus cat.

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Horst Antes. Image of Summer (‘Sommerbild’), 1961 (private collection).

Tempera on burlap: 121 x 142 cm. Auctioned at Ketterer Kunst Munich, December 2017.

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Jean Dubuffet. Láccouchement ('Childbirth'), 1944 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 99.8 x 80.8 cm.

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Cornelis Saftleven. Allegory of human Folly, 1629 (Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris).

Oil on wood: 48 x 62 cm.

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