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Luc-Olivier Merson - Truth [1901]
![Luc-Olivier Merson - Truth [1901]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5700/23176145964_1fd5021a81_o.jpg)
Luc-Olivier Merson (Paris, May 21, 1846 - Paris, November 13, 1920) was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs.
[Private Collection - Oil on canvas, 221 x 372 cm]
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Laura Knight - Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring [1943]
![Laura Knight - Ruby Loftus Screwing a Beech Ring [1943]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/652/23177497073_cde5edd9dc_o.jpg)
Loftus was an outstanding factory worker who had mastered complex engineering skills in a very short space of time, and Knight was commissioned to paint her at work in the factory. Knight was fascinated by circus artistes and dancers, and she emphasises the balance and posture of her subject at work. Industrial machinery was a wholly new element in Knight's work but her technical accuracy was praised in contemporary reports: Knight, like Loftus, was proving herself in a traditionally male environment.
Making a Bofors Breech ring was considered the most highly skilled job in the factory, normally requiring eight or nine years training. Loftus was aged 21 at the time of the painting and had no previous factory experience. Her ability to operate the machine presented a considerable publicity coup at the time. However, it has been suggested that she was placed at the machine precisely for this reason.
[Imperial War Museum, London - Oil on canvas, 86.3 x 101.9 cm]
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George Hendrik Breitner - Labourers Resting [1896-1900]
![George Hendrik Breitner - Labourers Resting [1896-1900]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5715/23797116166_5715c9ec37_o.jpg)
[Christie’s Auctions - Oil on canvas, 78 x 115 cm]
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Kent Williams - Laëtitia [2015]
![Kent Williams - Laëtitia [2015]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5722/23195119844_2910c6ddcc_o.png)
[Evoke Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe - Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 50.8 cm]
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Max Klinger - Portrait of a Boy [1909]
![Max Klinger - Portrait of a Boy [1909]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/651/23473670549_5ddbc81da7_o.jpg)
Max Klinger (Leipzig, February 18, 1857 - July 5, 1920) was a German symbolist painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer. Klinger travelled extensively around the art centres of Europe for years before returning to Leipzig in 1893. From 1897 he mostly concentrated on sculpture; his marble statue of Beethoven was an integral part of the Vienna Secession exhibit of 1902. Asteroid 22369 Klinger is named in his honour.
[Hampel Auctions - Oil on cardboard, 21 x 18.5 cm]
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Paul Fischer - A Winter’s Day
Paul Fischer (1860 - 1934) was a Danish painter.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on panel, 20 x 25.5 cm]
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Garin Baker - A Winter’s Afternoon [2013]
![Garin Baker - A Winter’s Afternoon [2013]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/586/23733219212_44578b7a6b_o.jpg)
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Evgeny Kropivnitsky - Portrait of a Girl
Evgeny Kropivnitsky (Moscow, 1893 - Moscow, 1979) headed the Lianozovo group of poets and artists, named after the small town where he and his wife lived in a disused barrack hut, which made an important contribution to the nonconformist movement in Moscow (mid-1950s). He worked in various styles, but was mostly drawn to Cubism and Expressionism
[MacDougall's Fine Art Auctions - Pencil, ink and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 28 by 39 cm]
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Madeleine Lemaire - Le Sommeil de Manon
Madeleine Lemaire (1845 - 1928) was a French painter specialised in elegant genre works, and flowers. She introduced Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to the Parisian salons of the aristocracy. She herself held a salon where she received high society in her Hôtel Particulier on the Rue de Monceau.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 106 x 158 cm]
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Kai Fjell - Odalisque
Kai Fjell (Skoger, March 2, 1907 - Lysaker, January 10, 1989) was a Norwegian painter. His debut exhibition in Oslo Art Society in 1932 was largely unsuccessful. Fjell achieved immediate success with his exhibition at Kunstnernes Hus (The Artists' House) in 1937, where all the exhibited paintings were sold. Kai Fjell early developed an ornamental expressionism. His pictures are heavily influenced by rural life and traditional Norwegian folk art. He was active as a painter until the end of his life.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on board, 24 x 33 cm]
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Fausto Pirandello - Still Life with Musical Instruments [c.1940]
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Fausto Pirandello (Rome, 1899 - Rome, 1975) was an Italian painter. After a short experience in Paris, where he met the most important artistic personalities of the time between 1920 and 1930, Pirandello entered the movement of Scuola Romana, distinguishing himself for originality and solitary exploration. His painting tends towards a quotidian realism manifested at times in the more unpleasant and pitiless aspects of life, expressed through a dense and thorny pictorial matter. Pirandello changed his style around the 1950s, re-absorbing influences from the cubists.
[Sold for Euro 16,050 at Dorotheum Auctions - Oil on panel, 50.5 x 60 cm]
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Laurits Tuxen - The Drowned Brought to Land [1913]
![Laurits Tuxen - The Drowned Brought to Land [1913]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/696/23257884233_37d3249f0c_o.jpg)
Laurits Tuxen (Copenhagen, December 9, 1853 - Copenhagen, November 21, 1927) was a Danish painter and sculptor specialising in figure painting. He was also associated with the Skagen Painters. He was the first head of Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler, an art school established in the 1880s to provide an alternative to the education offered by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
[Skagens Museum - Oil on canvas, 178 x 233 cm]
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Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers [1890]
![Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers [1890]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5731/23776361172_5c74cfac9f_o.png)
During his time in the Asylum of Saint-Paul in Saint-Rémy, a small town near Arles, Vincent van Gogh made a number of copies of the work of artists he admired, which freed him from having to produce original compositions and allowed him to concentrate instead on interpretation. For this image, Van Gogh copied a wood engraving from Honoré Daumier’s Drinkers, a parody on the four ages of man. The exaggerated figure types capture Daumier’s characteristic humour and convey his sad message about the horrors of alcoholism. The greenish palette may well be an allusion to the notorious alcoholic drink absinthe.
[Art Institute of Chicago - Oil on canvas, 59.4 × 73.4 cm]
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Aleksey Mikhailovich Korin - Sick Artist [1892]
![Aleksey Mikhailovich Korin - Sick Artist [1892]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/601/23819157551_89a6961c98_o.jpg)
Aleksey Mikhailovich Korin (March 16, 1865 - February 13, 1923) was a Russian painter.
[Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - Oil on canvas]
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Gustave Caillebotte - Rooftops in the Snow, Snow Effect [1878]
![Gustave Caillebotte - Rooftops in the Snow, Snow Effect [1878]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/23901634785_2a0390c0d3_o.jpg)
[Musée d’Orsay, Paris - Oil on canvas, 64 x 82 cm]
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Edgar Degas - Portrait of Mlle Hortense Valpincon [c.1871]
![Edgar Degas - Portrait of Mlle Hortense Valpincon [c.1871]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/752/23273448654_06e421b8a8_o.jpg)
[Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Oil on mattress ticking, 75.5 x 113.6 cm]
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Helge Dahlman - Still Life [1949]
![Helge Dahlman - Still Life [1949]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5691/23625982740_f1b367d47e_o.jpg)
Helge Dahlman (Helsinki, April 20, 1924 - February 19, 1979) was a Finnish painter.
[Bukowski’s Modern & Contemporary Sale, Helsinki - Oil on canvas, 51 x 61.5 cm]
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Kezban Arca Batibeki - Trio 2 [2012]
![Kezban Arca Batibeki - Trio 2 [2012]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1693/23294887583_97bc33eb2c_o.png)
[Ekavart Gallery, Istanbul - Acrylic based mixed media on canvas and sequin embroidery, 160 × 140 cm]
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Clément Serveau - Two Women [1933]
![Clément Serveau - Two Women [1933]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5805/23553832519_1f2ca1fd27_o.jpg)
Clément Serveau (Paris, June 29, 1886 - Paris, July 8, 1972) was a French painter, designer, engraver and illustrator. Clément Serveau produced works in a realist manner early on, but soon became interested in the new movements. He was influenced by his friend Louis Marcoussis and experimented with Cubism, utilising geometric patterns to give the illusion of form and space. Later in his career he turned toward abstraction with a post-cubist stance. He designed banknotes for the Banque de France and went on to produced large mural's and participating in numerous French and international exhibitions.
[Sotheby’s, Paris - Oil on canvas, 114 x 146 cm]
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