Cuno Amiet. The green Hat (‘Der grüne Hut’), 1898 (Kunstmuseum Solothurn).

 

Oil on canvas: 61 x 50 cm. The artist’s wife Anna Amiet-Luder (1874-1953).

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Vilhelm Hammershøi. Interior from the Home of the Artist (‘Sisäkuva taiteilijan kodista’), ca. 1900 (Kansallisgalleria - Ateneumin taidemuseo, Helsinki).

Oil on canvas: 65.5 x 54.5 cm.

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Elena Katsyura (Елена Кацюра). Slice of Citrus, 2013 (private collection).

Oil on gesso board: 15.3 x 15.3 cm(!).

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Woman putting on Stockings (‘Femme qui tire son bas’), 1894 (Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi).

Oil on board: 61.5 x 44.5 cm.

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Philip Reinagle. Portrait of a Percheron and his Groom at the Simonds Brewery, ca. 1813 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 69.5 x 89 cm. Auctioned at Woolley & Wallis Salisbury, September 2019.

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Edgar Degas. Ballet Dancers on the Stage, 1883 (Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas).

 

Pastel on paper: 61.6 x 47.3 cm.

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Jonathan Viner. Braxton & Hicks, 2016 (private collection).

Oil on linen: 50.8 x 91.4 cm. Based on an episode from the American 1970’s television series ‘CHiPs’. Jon and Ponch go to the disco. A pregnant woman goes into labor, and Ponch (Erik Estrada) delivers the baby on the dance floor. Jonathan Viner: “…It was beautiful!”.

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John Frederick Peto. Oranges wrapped, ca. 1890 (private collection).

Oil on board: 15.2 x 22.8 cm(!). Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, November 2015.

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Ferdinand Hodler. Lake Geneva with Jura Hills (‘Genfersee mit Jura’/ ‘Lac Léman avec le Jura’), 1911 (Kunstmuseum Basel).

Oil on canvas: 68 x 90.5 cm.

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Simon Vouet. St. Cecilia, ca. 1627 (Blanton Museum of Art, Austin).

 

Oil on canvas: 134.1 x 98.2 cm. Sancta Caecilia the Roman patroness of musicians.

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Graham Sutherland. Study of Rock and Flames, 1975 (National Museum Cardiff).

Oil on canvas: 61.3 x 50.2 cm.

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Akseli Gallen Kallela. Clouds (‘Pivitornit’/ ‘Moln’), 1904 (Didrichsenin taidemuseo, Helsinki).

Oil on canvas: 64 x 64 cm.

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Jacob/ Jacques de Gheyn II. Poseidon and Amphitrite, ca. 1610 (Wallraf Richartz Museum, Cologne).

Oil on canvas: 103.5 x 137 cm. Not too subtle.

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Chloe Early. Supernova, 2011 (private collection).

Oil on linen: ca. 183 x 244 cm. Chloe Early: "...Every ecstatic moment comes with the knowledge that moment will pass".

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Amedeo Modigliani. Seated Woman in a Blue Dress (‘Femme assise à la robe bleue’/ ‘Sittande kvinna I blå klänning’), ca. 1919 (Moderna Museet, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 92 x 60 cm.

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František Kupka. White on Blue and Red (‘Blanc sur bleu et rouge’), ca. 1935 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 72.3 x 80 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, February 2018.

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Johannes Vermeer. View of Delft (‘Gezicht op Delft’), ca. 1661 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 96.5 x 115.7 cm. À la recherche du temps perdu.

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Georges Braque. The Dessert I ('La Desserte I'), 1941 (private collection).

Oil and sand on canvas: 72.5 x 99 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby's New York, May 2012.

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Edvard Munch. Sunbathing (‘Solbad’), ca. 1925 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).

Oil on canvas: 100 x 120.5 cm. Photo credit: Sidsel de Jong.

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Francis Rodrigues de Oliveira. Reading ('La lecture'), 2001 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 100 x 72 cm.

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Michaël Borremans. Red Hand Green Hand, 2010 (artist's portfolio).

Oil on canvas: 40 x 60 cm.

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William McGregor Paxton. Interior with two Nudes, ca. 1930 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 81.3 x 96.5 cm. ‘Tricolor’. Auctioned at Freeman’s Philadelphia, June 2020.

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James Ensor. Seashells (‘Coquillages’), 1933 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 51 x 61.5 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s Amsterdam, December 2014.

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