15 May 2018
14 May 2018
Théo van Rysselberghe. Nude with Panama Hat (‘Nu au Panama’), 1924 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 100 x 80 cm. At least three other similar versions known from this 1924 setting. So this would be photo-referenced.
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13 May 2018
Tommy Hilding. Reflex, 2011 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 90 x 135 cm. Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, May 2017. Very subtle reflections.
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Visit > Tommy Hilding at: Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Galleri Thomassen.
12 May 2018
Joseph William Turner. Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm, 1837 (Art Institute of Chicago).
Oil on canvas: 92.2 x 123 cm.
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Barthel Beham. Portrait of Ursula Rudolph, 1528 (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).
Oil on wood: 67.3 x 50.3 cm. Pendant with a portrait of husband Ruprecht Stüpf, both members of Munich’s leading patrician families.
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More > Barthel Beham at Wikipedia.
8 May 2018
Paul de Vos (w. Jan Wildens). The earthly Paradise (‘Paradies’), ca. 1650 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Oil on canvas: 219 cm x 309 cm(!). Brother-in-law of Jan Snyders. In the background is God creating women. Copy (workshop Paul de Vos) at the Louvre.
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More > Paul de Vos at Wikipedia.
7 May 2018
Lucas Cranach the elder. The Golden Age (‘Das Goldene Zeitalter’), ca. 1530 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil on oak: 73.5 x 105.3 cm. The Nasjonalmuseet version: here.
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More > Lucas Cranach the elder at Wikipedia.
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6 May 2018
Max Haushofer. Girl on the Shores of Lake Chiemsee (‘Mädchen am Ufer des Chiemsees’), ca. 1860 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 80 x 106 cm. Auctioned at Neumeister Kunstauktionshaus Munich, December 2015.
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Kehinde Wiley. President Barack Obama official Portrait, 2018 (Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington).
Oil on canvas: 213.7 x 147 cm.
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5 May 2018
Peter Binoit. Still Life with Tulips, 1623 (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Oil on copper: 24.1 x 19.1 cm(!).
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4 May 2018
The Candlelight Master (attributed). Allegory of Vanity (‘La Malinconia - o la Vanità’), ca. 1635 (Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
Oil on canvas: 95 x 135 cm. Attributed by Benedict Nicolson (‘The Candlelight Master’, a follower of Honthorst in Rome, 1960). Previously attributed to Trophime Bigot.
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Otto Ritschl. Komposition 59-19, 1959 (Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau/ Stuttgart).
Oil on canvas: 99 x 130 cm.
Visit > Otto Ritschl at: Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Galerie Weick, Galerie Rother-Winter.
More > Otto Ritschl at Wikipedia (German).
3 May 2018
Ruprecht von Kaufmann. Save Me, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).
Oil and collage on linoleum: 160 x 205 cm.
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Visit > Ruprecht von Kaufmann at: Galerie Crone, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Galerie Thomas Fuchs.
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2 May 2018
Joachim Beuckelaer. The Four Elements: Water, 1569 (National Gallery, London).
Oil on canvas: 158.1 x 214.9 cm. Photo credit: Ramón Muñoz. The other elements: Earth, Air, Fire.
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1 May 2018
George Clausen. Primavera, 1914 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 91.4 x 71.7 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, June 2014. Thought to be Lilian (‘Lily’) Ryan, a well-known model in London studios at the time. The picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in May 1914, and attacked with a meat cleaver by suffragette Maude Kate Smith aka. Mary Spencer. The ‘Rokeby Venus’ in the National Gallery was attacked just two months earlier.
More > George Clausen at Wikipedia.
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30 April 2018
Fiona Rae. Figment 2d, 2015 (Buchmann Galerie, Berlin).
Oil on canvas: 61 x 49.5 cm.
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Visit > Fiona Rae at: Buchmann Galerie, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
More > Fiona Rae at Wikipedia.
More > Fiona Rae at: Art UK, Tate Britain, Royal Academy.
28 April 2018
Auguste Herbin. Good (‘Bien’), 1952 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 124 x 84 cm. Auctioned at Grisebach Berlin, June 2001. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, November 2002. Auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris, December 2009.
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26 April 2018
Edvard Munch. Two Women under the Tree in the Garden (‘To kvinner under treet’), 1919 (Munchmuseet, Oslo).
Oil on canvas: 120 x 160 cm. Photo credit: Ove Kvavik.
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24 April 2018
Firmin Baes. Tranquillity (‘Quiétude’), ca. 1920 (private collection).
Pastel on canvas: 98 x 80 cm. Auctioned at Hôtel de Ventes Horta Brussels, December 2012.
More > Firmin Baes at Wikipedia.
Gustav Klimt. Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 (Neue Galerie, New York).
Oil and gold on canvas: 138 x 138 cm. Confiscated by the Nazi regime in 1939 from the estate of widowed husband Ferdinand Bloch. Transferred to the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in 1941 (in accordance with Adele Bloch-Bauer’s will). In 2006 an arbitration panel judged the painting should be returned to the Bloch-Bauer estate (ic. Maria Bloch-Altmann, niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer). The painting left Austria in March 2006 and was sold at auction at Christie's New York in November 2006. Bought by cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder. Now on display at his Neue Galerie in New York City.
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