Teodora Axente. Becoming III, 2012 (Taylor Art Collection, Denver).

Oil on canvas: 50 x 33 cm. Teodora Axente (2021): “In order to define these two sides of the human being, the material and the spiritual, I chose to wrap my characters in cheap but shiny materials such as foil or cellophane ornaments that evoke the individual's dependence on the consumer society but also highlights superficiality. For example, the Becoming series evokes precisely that self-denial of the human being. Self-denial is effectuated in a ritual in which my characters are either on their knees or levitating above a chair from which only the legs remain, indicating the self-struggle”.

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Floris Verster. Bowl with Eggs (‘Nap met eieren’), 1915 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht).

Oil on wood: 19 x 26.5 cm(!). Earlier versions at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and the Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo.

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Sarah Harvey. Falling Pleasure, 2010 (private collection).

Oil on linen: 151 x 134 cm. Sarah Harvey: “…I have become increasingly excited about the abstract elements in these works, and the interplay between light, colour and water. The emerging patterns are becoming more apparent and dominant, drawing the eye not only towards the main focal point of the human form, but also to the surrounding areas, which are of equal significance”

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Henry F. Dijkhoff. Noah, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on panel: 80 x 65 cm.

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Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Trafalgar Square, 1939 (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 145.2 x 120 cm. Reworked 1943.

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Lucas Cranach the elder. A Faun and his Family with a slain Lion, ca. 1526 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on wood: 82.9 x 56.2 cm.

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Michaël Borremans. The Load, 2008 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 40 x 49.8 cm.

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Anton Raphael Mengs. Unfinished Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, 1775 (private collection, USA).

Oil on wood: 88.5 x 69.7 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London in 2012. Acquired by Anderson Cooper in 2016. A finished version (copy?) at the Palacio de Liria (La Fundación Casa de Alba, Madrid).

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Willem de Kooning. East Hampton Garden Party, 1976 (private collection).

Oil on paper on canvas: 76.2 x 102.4 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, June 2020.

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Jacques Linard. Still Life of Shells and Coral (‘Nature morte aux coquillages et au corail’), ca. 1630 (Fondation Custodia/ Collection Frits Lugt, Paris).

Oil on wood: 47 x 64 cm.

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John Kacere. Serina '72, 1972 (Collection Bruce R. Lewin, New York).

Oil on canvas: 127 x 179 cm.

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Henri Matisse. Bathers by a River, 1917 (Art Institute of Chicago).

Oil on canvas: 260 x 392 cm(!). Originally part of a 1909 Russian commission with Dance II and Music (State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg). Rejected, and reworked in 1913-1917.

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Jopie Huisman. Self-Portrait (‘Zelfportret’), 1978 (Jopie Huisman Museum, Workum).

Oil on canvas: 80 x 60 cm.

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William Larkin. Portrait of a young Lady - possibly Jane Lady Thornhaugh, 1617 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/ USA).

Oil on wood: 113.7 x 83.8 cm. The ‘Curtain Master’.

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Johan Thomas Lundbye. Open Country in North Zealand, Denmark (‘Sjællandsk landskab. Åben egn i det nordlige Sjælland’), 1842 (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen).

Oil on canvas: 112.3 x 142.4 cm.

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Frank Nitsche. BTV-10-2002, 2002 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 200 x 175 cm.

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Jalmari Ruokokoski. Love (‘Rakkaus’), 1910 (Kansallisgalleria - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Helsinki).

Oil on canvas: 58.5 x 55 cm.

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Susanne Mitchell. Waiting, 2015 (private collection, USA).

Oil and mixed media on canvas: 165.1 x 152.4 cm.

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Gustav Klimt. Farm Garden with Sunflowers (‘Bauerngarten mit Sonnenblumen’), 1907 (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna).

Oil on canvas: 110 x 110 cm.

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Jan Havicksz Steen. The Effects of Intemperance, ca. 1664 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on wood: 76 x 107 cm.

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. African (‘Afrikanisches’), 1954 (Brücke-Museum, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 76 x 90 cm.

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Kurt Peiser. Embrace (‘Embrassement’), ca. 1920 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 50 x 61 cm. Auctioned at De Vuyst Lokeren, October 2015. Kind of a young Tom Waits vibe with this Peiser guy.

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Lisa Brice. Untitled, 2019 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil, synthetic tempera, ink and pastel on linen: 203 x 105 cm. Lisa Brice (2018): “I am drawn to the ambiguity that people and places can hold. Sometimes the compositions of my paintings feel like cinematic outtakes: the moments between directed actions, when the figures are ‘on their own time’, self-involved, performing only for themselves or one another. There are infinite possibilities embodied in these transitional states of being, which could also be a time of day, or adolescence, or gender, or rooms that feel like threshold spaces – thinly veiled interiors with glimpses of the exterior, grilles or indoor plants, typical in the tropics. These are all thrilling states – a kind of magical suspension”.

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Anton Rooskens. Springdance ('Lentedans'), 1971 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 64 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, June 2011.

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Carlo Crivelli. Madonna and Child, ca. 1473 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Tempera and gold on wood: 36.5 x 23.5 cm(!). Crivelli hands.

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Anders Zorn. By Lake Siljan (‘Vid Siljan’), 1905 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 81 x 100 cm.

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Lino Selvatico. The Shoe (‘La scarpatta’), 1924 (private collection).

Oil on panel: 46.4 x 36.2 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, July 2016.

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Christian Rex van Minnen. Reglaze the Pizza Dynasty, 2018 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on panel: 61 x 76.2 cm. Christian Rex van Minnen (2017): “I never want to be provocative just for provocation's sake. I'm really cautious about being too ironic, or even flippant. I think it has to come from a place that's sincere, otherwise it comes off the wrong way; so what you say is true. The power of the technique itself is that you can kind of put anything behind it and it'll look good. In history, that's been a very manipulating force. You have to be careful. What is the message behind it? And if it's devoid of message, then it's just manipulation”.

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Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Summer - Dune in Zeeland ('Zomer - Duin in Zeeland'), 1910 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York).

Oil on canvas: 134 x 195 cm. From the collection of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, on permanent display at the Guggenheim New York.

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