Albert Anker. Still Life with Coffee ('Stillleben mit Kaffee'), 1877 (Stiftung für Kunst, Winterthur).

Oil on canvas: 45 x 59 cm.

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Susannah Martin. Reservoir, 2018 (private collection).

Oil on linen: 50 x 50 cm. Susannah Martin (2019): “The human body as subject matter is always political. There is no way around that. The nude figure is probably the most confrontational subject that an artist can take on. Whether a viewer is open to it or rejects it, the human subject leaves no one cold. We all have intense feelings when looking at our fellow human beings. How we react to an image of the human body has to do with our most intimate personal fears and desires as well as social conditioning and expectations”.

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Odilon Redon. Head of Orpheus ('Tête d'Orphée'), ca. 1900 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 32.2 x 40.2 cm. Photo credit: Francesco Bini.

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Teodora Axente. In Secrecy, 2013 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 74 x 63 cm. Teodora Axente (2021): “I present an unexpected series of materials through which I evoke the amalgam of matter that has mastered my characters. They become dependent on the matter that will dominate them and that seeks to shape them from within. The presence of aluminum foil, plastic bags, satin, velvet, pearls or furs evokes that state of mystery in some places with noble aspects, which fascinates the eye at first sight, but also becomes contrasting through the strangeness of association of the chosen objects and materials”.

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Joachim Patinir. Charon crossing the Styx (‘El paso de la laguna Estigia’), 1524 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 64 x 103 cm.

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Joachim Beuckelaer. The butcher’s Shop (‘Bottega del macellaio’), 1568 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples).

Oil on canvas: ca. 160 x 220. Inspired by or referring to Aertsen’s Meat Stall.

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Neil Stokoe. Man and Woman, spiral Staircase, 1983 (artist’s estate, UK).

Oil on canvas: 266.7 x 180.3 cm(!).

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John Frederick Peto. Still Life with Oranges and a Box of Confections, ca. 1890 (private collection).

Oil on board: 15 x 23 cm(!). Auctioned at Sotheby’s New York, April 2014.

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Arthur Riedel. Woman with Beachball (‘Frau mit Wasserball’), 1932 (private collection, Switzerland).

Tempera on board: 73 x 60 cm. Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in Switzerland.

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Raoul de Keyser. Shore (‘Oever’), 2005 (private collection, Berlin).

Oil on canvas on wood: 18 x 15.5 cm(!).

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Edgar Degas. In Front of the Mirror, 1889 (Hamburger Kunsthalle).

Pastel on paper: 49 x 64 cm.

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Orazio Gentileschi. Young Woman playing a Violin, ca. 1612 (Detroit Institute of Arts).

Oil on canvas: 83.5 x 97.8 cm.

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. The horse’s Bath (‘El baño del caballo’), 1909 (Museo Sorolla, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 205 x 250 cm(!).

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Lee Mullican. Dance, 1958 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 127 x 101.6 cm.

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Bartolomé Estebán Murillo. Don Andrés de Andrade y la Cal, ca. 1672 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 200.7 x 119.4 cm.

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Léon Cogniet. Scene of July 1830 (‘Scène de Juillet 1830’/ ‘Les drapeaux’), 1830 (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans).

Oil on canvas: 19 x 24 cm(!).

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Max Beckmann. Woman with Mandolin in Yellow and Red (‘Frau mit Mandoline in Gelb und Rot’), 1950 (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich).

Oil on canvas: 92 x 140 cm.

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Alexander Samokhvalov (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самохва́лов). Girl in a Football Jersey, 1932 (State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg).

Tempera on canvas: 102 x 64 cm. The football Mona Lisa. Later reworked into a colour lithograph “Girl in a Sports Shirt” (holding a tennis racket and tennis ball).

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Ferdinand Hodler. Summit in the Morning ('Berggipfel am Morgen'), 1915 (Kunsthaus, Zürich).

Oil on canvas: 51 x 81 cm.

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Clara Peeters. Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels (‘Stilleven met kazen, amandelen en krakelingen’), ca. 1615 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on wood: 34.5 x 49.5 cm. Tiny self-portrait in the reflection of the goblet's pewter lid.

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