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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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. 

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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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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.

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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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