![Leo Putz - In the Bath II [1911]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1524/24113408159_0de321f045_o.jpg)
[Ketterer Kunst, Munich - Oil on canvas]
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Leo Putz - In the Bath II [1911]
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Carl Carlsen - In the Auction House [1891]
![Carl Carlsen - In the Auction House [1891]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1502/24372886042_e162303b4c_o.jpg)
Carl Carlsen (1855 - 1917) was a Danish painter.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 104.1 x 123.5 cm]
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Adolf Reich - In the Artist’s Studio
Adolf Reich was born in Vienna in 1887, and died in Salzburg in 1963. Primarily self-taught, his genre-art is considered some of the finest from this period. Reich and his wife moved from Vienna to Munich in 1926 to escape the financial ruin of Austria. It was there that he began work for the Nazis creating folk postcards and propaganda art; several of his works were displayed in Hitler’s Great German Museum. In the course of this time, his house and studio were bombed, and at the end of the war he was imprisoned with hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officers. He lost his wife in 1953, and due to his involvement with the Nazis was never allowed to pursue his dream of teaching art. He spent the remainder of his days quietly working in his studio until his death.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on panel, 50 x 39.5 cm]
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta - Rebecca at the Well [c.1740]
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Venice, February 13, c.1682 - Venice, April 28, 1754) was an Italian painter. Piazzetta created an art of warm, rich color and a mysterious poetry. He often depicted peasantry, even if often in a grand fashion. He was highly original in the intensity of color he sometimes used in his shadows, and in the otherworldly quality he gave to the light which throws part of a composition into relief. Also notable are his many carefully rendered drawings of half-length figures or groups of heads. Usually in charcoal or black chalk with white heightening on grey paper, these are filled with the same spirit that animates his paintings, and were purchased by collectors as independent works.
[Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan - Oil on canvas, 102 x 137 cm]
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Anna Halldin-Maule - Printemps [2015]
![Anna Halldin-Maule - Printemps [2015]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1720/24387528082_279f9aca91_o.png)
Working with her husband, the photographer Tom Maule, Anna Halldin-Maule produces meticulously detailed, photorealistic paintings of nude, or nearly nude, women, accessorised with the trappings of fashion and luxury consumerism. Each of her large-scale, oil on canvas paintings begins with a photo shoot. Halldin-Maule carefully prepares waif-thin models, in the past, she has adorned them in jewelry from brands like Louis Vuitton and posed them fighting over a crimson Hermés Birkin bag, and her husband photographs the women in various poses. She then selects the strongest image and transforms it into a painting that appears to glow from within. Some of Halldin-Maule’s compositions feature the models’ bodies fragmented by scarves and birdcages, recalling the surrealist works of René Magritte. Halldin-Maule’s works question whether we are in control of our desire for luxury and consumption, or whether these impulses control us.
[Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco - Oil on canvas, 142.2 × 96.5 cm]
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Charles Webster Hawthorne - Portuguese Fisherboy
Charles W. Hawthorne (1872 - 1930) studied with William Merritt Chase in New York, becoming his teaching assistant before opening his own outdoor school of figure painting, the Cape Cod School of Art, in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1899. Portuguese Fisherboy numbers among the artist’s many depictions of members of the local Portuguese fishing community in Provincetown, about whom Anna Seaton-Schmidt writes, “The fisher people have been his best models. Living among them he has learned to understand and share their joys and griefs. He has become one of them. In some inexplicable manner the souls of his models seem to have passed into his canvases. His pictures show them to us when off their guard, revealing their inner thoughts. They are not only real people, but real people who disclose to us something that they rarely show, their aspirations, longings, hopes and fears, sentiments which, because of natural reticence, they would have been ashamed to avow. No one could call the uncouth, awkward fisher people of Hawthorne’s pictures idealised. He sees them as they are, but his vision is that of the artist and penetrates beneath their rough exteriors to the poetry that underlies all human life.”
[Sotheby’s, New York City - Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 99.7 cm]
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Francisco Pradilla Ortiz - La Reina doña Juana la Loca, recluida en Tordesillas con su hija, la infanta doña Catalina [1906]
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Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (Villanueva de Gállego, July 24, 1848 - Madrid, November 1, 1921) was a Spanish painter famous for creating historical scenes. His total output is well over 1,000 paintings showing his interest in a variety of subjects and styles, often without regard of the current fashion.
[Museo del Prado, Madrid - Oil on canvas, 85 x 146 cm]
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Paul Klee - Red Balloon [1922]
![Paul Klee - Red Balloon [1922]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1517/23887288504_cfb753aa60_o.jpg)
Although much of Klee’s work is figurative, compositional design nearly always preceded narrative association. The artist often transformed his experiments in tonal value and line into visual anecdotes. Red Balloon, for example, is at once a cluster of delicately coloured, floating geometric shapes and a charming cityscape.
[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York - Oil on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 31.7 x 31.1 cm]
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Vojtěch Hynais - Reclining Nude [1912]
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Vojtěch Hynais (Vienna, December 14, 1854 - Prague, August 22, 1925) was a Czech painter, decorator and graphic artist.
[Unknown Location - Oil on canvas, 47 x 75 cm]
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Jules Bastien-Lepage - Rural Love [1883]
![Jules Bastien-Lepage - Rural Love [1883]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1621/24238477200_6e9b44bb3f_o.jpg)
[Pushkin Museum, Moscow - Oil on canvas, 199 x 181 cm]
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René Magritte - The Lovers [1928]
![René Magritte - The Lovers [1928]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1538/24507857096_82e51f198c_o.png)
Frustrated desires are a common theme in René Magritte’s work. Here, a barrier of fabric prevents the intimate embrace between two lovers, transforming an act of passion into one of isolation and frustration. Some have interpreted this work as a depiction of the inability to fully unveil the true nature of even our most intimate companions.
[Museum of Modern Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 73.3 cm]
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Ron Hicks - Kisses and Coffee [2014]
![Ron Hicks - Kisses and Coffee [2014]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1617/24507867486_1bbde93cfe_o.jpg)
Ron Hicks’ works have been characterised as a blend of representational art and impressionism. His creative process involves explaining an idea for a pose to a model and then waiting for her to strike a comfortable facsimile. “The best postures are the ones that just happen; then the models stay comfortable,” he says. “I don’t want to paint a pose that is unnatural and has nothing to do with actual life.” Hicks paints full time with every show he creates selling out. His goal is to travel around the world and spend enough time gaining a deeper understanding of the people of the counties he visits. “If you are not moving, evolving and solving problems as a painter, you are dead. I don’t want to be one of those artists that says, ‘This is a nice flower painting. Now let me do it again and again.’” Hicks says. “My goal is to keep my work as fresh and new as possible.”
See: www.ronhicks.com/
[Art Renewal Centre - Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches]
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Balthus - Passage du Commerce-Saint-André [1952-54]
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Balthazar Klossowski, better known as Balthus, bucked the trends of mid-20th century avant-gardism, concentrating on traditional landscapes, still lifes, and portraits in the tradition of the Old Masters. Despite Balthus’ formal conservatism, he became infamous in the 1930s for sexually charged depictions of adolescent girls. Thérèse Dreaming (1930), for instance, features a pre-pubescent girl lost in her own thoughts as she perches one bent leg on a stool, causing her skirt to fall back. Balthus later returned to painting landscapes in the vein of Nicolas Poussin and Gustave Courbet, like The Mountain (1937). Although rendered in a painstakingly realist style, this painting figures among the works, along with The Street (1933), that prompted some critics to label Balthus as a Surrealist for his depiction of bizarre narrative scenes and dreamlike atmospheres.
[Private Collection - Oil on canvas, 294 × 330 cm]
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Maximilien Luce - Parizelle à la Pèche au bas Meudon [1882]
![Maximilien Luce - Parizelle à la Pèche au bas Meudon [1882]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1720/23927465813_183fd7bddc_o.jpg)
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on panel, 21 x 32.9 cm]
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Henri Cassiers - Paris Street Scene [c.1895]
![Henri Cassiers - Paris Street Scene [c.1895]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1673/24471988791_7a07b32915_o.jpg)
Henri Cassiers (Antwerp, 1858 - 1944) was a Belgian painter. In Brussels he studied architecture under P. Saintenoy. He also followed courses at "La Patte de Dindon" Vrije Academie in Brussels and in Antwerp at "St. Josse-Ten-Noode" Academie as well as the Fine Arts Academy. His mentors included Henri Stacquet and Charles William Bartlett. In 1881 he put on his first exhibition and subsequently traveled extensively in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and The Netherlands.
[Private Collection - Gouache on cardboard, 8.25 x 8.125 inches]
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