11 June 2018
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri). The Hunt of Diana (‘La caccia di Diana’), 1617 (Galleria Borghese, Rome).
Oil on canvas: 225 x 320 cm(!). Photo credit: Hen Magonza.
Visit > Galleria Borghese, Rome.
More > Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) at Wikipedia.
10 June 2018
Francis Bacon. Study for Portrait, 1977 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 198.2 x 147.7 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, May 2018.
More > Francis Bacon at Wikipedia.
More > Francis Bacon at Art UK.
8 June 2018
Carl Rottmann. Pronoia - Greece, 1847 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil and resin on plaster board: 161.7 x 205.4 cm.
Visit > Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
More > Carl Rottmann at Wikipedia.
5 June 2018
François Boucher. Resting Girl (‘Ruhendes Mädchen’), 1752 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).
Oil on canvas: 59 x 73 cm. Model presumed to be Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737-1814), mistress to Louis XV. Earlier version at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne (with a book and two roses): here.
Visit > Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
More > François Boucher at Wikipedia.
More > Marie-Louise O'Murphy at Wikipedia.
3 June 2018
Jan Massys (Massijs/ Matsys/ Metsys). The ill-matched Pair, 1566 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Oil on wood: 97 x 134 cm. Son of the leading Antwerp painter Quinten Matsys (Massys/ Massijs/ Metsys).
Visit > Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
More > Jan Massys (Massijs/ Matsys/ Metsys) at Wikipedia.
2 June 2018
Frank Nitsche. BIL-38-2015, 2015 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 300 x 280 cm(!).
Visit > Frank Nitsche at: Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Galerie Max Hetzler, Koenig & Clinton.
More > Frank Nitsche at Wikipedia (German).
1 June 2018
Domenico Beccafumi. Venus and Cupid, ca. 1530 (New Orleans Museum of Art).
Oil on linden: 128 x 96.5 cm. In his bold, irrational and somewhat unbalanced Sienese style.
Visit > New Orleans Museum of Art.
More > Google Arts & Culture.
More > Domenico Beccafumi at Wikipedia.
30 May 2018
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Girl with Cat (‘Mädchen mit Katze’), 1910 (Merzbacher Kunststiftung, Küsnacht).
Oil on canvas: 88.5 x 119 cm.
More > Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at Wikipedia.
More > Werner Merzbacher at Wikipedia (German).
27 May 2018
Paul Keck. Woman in Dirndl Dress surrounded by Summer Flowers (‘Junge Frau im Dirndl auf einer Bank inmitten prachtvoller Sommerblumen’), 1958 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 105 x 135 cm. Auctioned at Auktionshaus Michael Zeller Lindau, April 2014/ September 2014/ April 2016. Comforting escapism.
More > Paul Keck at Wikipedia (German).
26 May 2018
25 May 2018
Piet Mondriaan/ Mondrian. Composition of Red and White No. 1, 1942 (St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis/ USA).
Oil on canvas: 100.3 x 99.1 cm. Reworked.
Visit > St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis/ USA.
More > Piet Mondriaan at Wikipedia.
24 May 2018
Hubert van Ravesteyn. Walnuts in a Wan-li Porcelain Bowl, ca. 1670 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 52.7 x 44.5 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s New York, October 2017.
More > Hubert van Ravesteyn at Wikipedia.
22 May 2018
Cristina Troufa. Voyeur No. 2, 2016 (artist’s portfolio).
Acrylic on canvas: 80 x 80 cm.
Visit > Cristina Troufa official.
More > Cristina Troufa at Instagram.
More > Cristina Troufa at Saatchi Art.
21 May 2018
William Scott. Ochre Still Life II, 1970 (private collection).
Oil on canvas: 121.9 x 121.9 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London, November 2013.
Visit > William Scott official.
More > William Scott at Wikipedia.
More > William Scott at Art UK.
20 May 2018
Karl Hofer. The Record Player (‘Der Plattenspieler’), 1939 (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas).
Oil on canvas: 111.8 x 77.2 cm. With an Odeon label. Similar later Albertina version: here.
Visit > Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas.
More > Karl Hofer official.
More > Karl Hofer at Wikipedia.
19 May 2018
Joachim Uytewael/ Wtewael. The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1600 (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas).
Oil on canvas: 169.2 x 125.1 cm.
Visit > Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas.
More > Google Arts & Culture.
More > Joachim Uytewael/ Wtewael at Wikipedia.
15 May 2018
Jan Brueghel the elder (w. Hendrick van Balen). Allegory of Air, 1611 (Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon).
Oil on copper: 46 x 83 cm. Similar versions at the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj Rome (probably Jan Brueghel’s workshop) and private collection (Jan van Kessel the elder, Sotheby’s London, July 2010).
Visit > Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon.
More > Jan Brueghel the elder at Wikipedia.


















