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Conrad Felixmüller - My Brother, the Mining Engineer [1922]
This work is one of the great Expressionist portraits of proletarian workers that Conrad Felixmüller (Dresden, May 21, 1897 - Zehlendorf, Berlin, March 24, 1977) made in the early 1920s. Probably the...
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Portrait of the poet Frank [1917]
Switzerland at the outbreak of the conflict and spent several short stays at the Bellevue sanatorium in search of solace. Although Frank was not registered as a patient during the winter of 1917, it...
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René Magritte - Souvenir of the Voyage [c.1961]
This work is an exquisitely-rendered gouache from around 1961 showing an apple wearing a carnival-style mask. This creates a mysterious anthropomorphism: the mask faces us, giving the impression that...
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Raoul Dufy - Models at the Races [1920]
[Sotheby’s, New York - Collage, gouache and pencil on card, 29.8 x 50.8 cm]
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Paul Klee - Picture of a Garden [1920]
With its striking horizontal arrangement and blend of bright yellows, greens and deep magentas, this work is a vibrant depiction of one of Klee’s most enduring subjects: the garden as a space of...
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Edvard Munch - Summer Day or Embrace on the Beach (The Linde Frieze) [1904]
Summer Day was conceived as part of a commission for a frieze in the home of Munch’s patron Dr Max Linde and was envisaged by the artist as a continuation of his celebrated Frieze of Life. inde asked...
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Camille Pissarro - Little Flemish Maid called La Rosa [1896]
With its finely rendered surface of short, staccato brushstrokes, this work exemplifies the distinctive pointillist-inspired style that Pissarro had developed. Having witnessed the pointillist works...
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Camille Pissarro - Back to School or Return to the Farm [1881]
In his depictions of rural scenes, Pissarro intricately weaves together elements to present a harmonious composition where “man is always seen in perspective in the vast terrestrial harmony, like a...
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Franz Sedlacek - Arriving Home at Night [1927]
What is not very clear is what Sedlacek (Wrocław, January 21, 1891 - Vienna, 1940) is trying to tell us in this terrifying scene. From the title we know that a guy comes home at night and gets a big...
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Lucas Cranach I - Hercules and Omphale [1532]
The artist dressed all four of his figures in fashionable clothing of the 16th-century Saxon court to ensure that his viewers would recognise themselves in his painting. Hercules’s hulking figure is...
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Arnaldo Pomodoro - Sfera [1974]
The immaculate, highly polished golden surface of a perfectly conceived sphere is rent in; the interior cracks and cavities display a jagged, faceted array of mechanic and crystalline complexity. With...
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Alice Neel - Spanish Boy [1965]
Alice Neel developed a unique, expressive style of portrait painting that captured the psychology of individuals living in New York, from friends and neighbours in Spanish Harlem to celebrities. Part...
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Franz Sedlacek - Ghosts in a Tree [1933]
Sedlacek painted this work in that symbolic year for Germany, 1933. A premonition of the night to come, although it must be remembered that Sedlacek was a Nazi through and through. A soldier and...
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Salvador Dalí - Cristo del Vallés (Christ of Vallés) [1962]
Painted in 1962, Christo del Vallés is one of a sequence of ecstatic visions of Christ that Salvador Dalí painted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Originating in his concept of Nuclear Mysticism (a...
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John Atkinson Grimshaw - Reflections on the Thames, Westminster [1880]
[Leeds Art Gallery - Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 127 cm]
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Henri Martin - Peasant Woman in the Vineyards (Marie-Louise) [c.1924-27]
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 61.1 x 46.4 cm]
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Camille Pissarro - Farmers Chatting in a Farmyard, Éragny [1889-1902]
Pissarro set himself apart from his fellow Impressionist painters with his candid depictions of rural labourers. These paintings provided intimate portrayals of the toils and daily experiences of the...
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Ivana Kobilca - Summer [1889-90]
Ivana Kobilca (Ljubljana, December 20, 1861 - December 4, 1926) was one of Slovene realists, who created their most important paintings in the 1880s. Kobilca's greatest tribute to Slovenian art was...
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Women Bathing Between White Stones [1912]
[National Gallery of Art, Washington - Colour woodcut on Japanese paper, image 28.4 × 27.6 cm, sheet 40.48 × 31.7 cm]
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Alexej von Jawlensky - Woman with a Fan (Woman from Turkestan) [1912]
This work showcases the daring nature of Alexej von Jawlensky’s aesthetic in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Filled with bold swathes of vibrant colour and vigorous, energetic...
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Raphael von Ambros - The Tobacco Seller, Cairo [1891]
Von Ambros depicts a busy tobacco stall outside a coffee shop in the streets of Cairo. On the left, two young men roll cigarettes which have been neatly hung by the merchant on his stall. On the...
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Samuel Woolf - The Under World [c.1909-10]
Subways, introduced in New York in 1904, drew an array of disparate classes and social types into their stations. Samuel Woolf’s vivid portrayal of urban characters, a messenger boy, an immigrant...
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Laurence Stephen Lowry - A Northern Race Meeting [1956]
“He was a great wit – and his dry humour was never absent even on the greyest of days. Once we went to a picture auction together, and a picture he’d sold years before for very little money was sold...
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Andy Warhol - Do it Yourself (Violin) [1962]
This work is an extraordinarily rare and important drawing by Andy Warhol, dating from the most pivotal year of his career. Executed in pencil and crayon, it is related to a series of five major...
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