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Giovanni Boldini

On October 30, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 1, Italian

Giovanni Boldini, Italian Painter, December 31, 1842 – July 11, 1931

Self-Portrait at Montorsoli, 1892 Oil on canvas, 22 x 14.1 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, 1886 Pastel on cardboard, 25.5 x 21.2 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma

Princesse de Caraman-Chimay, later Madame Jourdan, 1889 Private collection

Portrait of John Singer Sargent, circa 1890 Oil on panel, 10.63 × 8.66 in // Private collection

Portrait of the Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1897 Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 45.6 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of Madame Marthe de Florian, 1898 Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 44 in // Private collection

Portrait of Rita de Acosta Lydig, 1911 Oil on canvas, 70.9 x 43.5 in // Private collection

Princess Cécile Murat Ney d'Elchingen, 1910 Oil on canvas, 94 x 51.1 in // Private collection

Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati With a Greyhound, 1908 Oil on canvas, 100 x 55 in // Private collection

A Famous Connoisseur, 1883 Crayon and pencil on graph paper, 6.2 x 4.3 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Men Reading, 1884 Drawing, 14.4 × 10 in // Private collection

Young Woman Sitting in an Interior Drawing

Georgia O’Keeffe

On October 26, 2025 - 20th Century, American, november 15

Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter, November 15, 1887-March 6, 1986

Red and Orange Streak, 1919 Oil on canvas 27 x 22.9 in // Philadelphia Art Museum

Blue and Green Music, 1919-1921 Oil on canvas, 22.9 x 19 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Pink Dish and Green Leaves, 1929 Pastel on board, 22 x 28 in // Private Collection

Radiator Building – Night, New York, 1927 Oil on canvas, 47.9 x 30 in // The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Wave, Night, 1928 Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 1/4 in // Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Blue #2, c 1916 Watercolor on paper, 15.8 x 10.9 in // Brooklyn Museum

Evening Star No. III, 1917 Watercolor on paper on board, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sunrise, 1916 Watercolor Private collection

Lake George Reflection, c 1921–1922 Oil on canvas, 34 x 57.9 in // Private collection

The Chestnut Tree, 1924 Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 1/8 inches Private Collection

Purple Hills Ghost Ranch-2 / Purple Hills No II, 1934

Georgia O'Keeffe, Flower Abstraction, 1924 Oil on canvas, 48 1/8 × 30in

Flower Abstraction, 1924 Oil on canvas, 48 1/8 × 30 in Private collection

Edmond Dulac

On October 15, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, october 22

Edmond Dulac, French artist, October 22, 1882-May 25, 1953

Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edmund Dulac, 1914

Illustration From "Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories From the Arabian Nights," 1914

Illustration From "Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross," 1914

Illustration From "Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories From the Arabian Nights," 1914

Illustration for "Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest," 1915

Illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale"

Illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"

Illustration to "A Little Girl in a Book", from Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell

Frits Thaulow

On October 15, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, Norwegian, october 20

Frits Thaulow, Norwegian painter, October 20, 1847 – November 5, 1906

Anders Beer Wilse, Frits Thaulow, c 1900 Private collection

"The King," from Akershus Fortress, 1878 Oil on wood board, 12.9 x 22 in // Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway

View of Amerikavej in Copenhagen, 1881 Oil on panel, 29.3 x 47.3 in // Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

River Harbor, 1881 Oil on oak panel Oslo Museum

Rock, Motif from Kragerö, 1882 Oil on panel, 15.7 x 25 in // Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

Winter at the River Simoa, 1883 Oil on canvas, 30.9 x 19.5 in // National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Winter on the Canal Pastel on canvas, 28 3/8 x 35 3/4 in // Private collection

Childe Hassam

On October 14, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, october 17

Childe Hassam, American painter, October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935

The Avenue in the Rain, 1917 Oil on canvas, 42 x 22.2 in // The White House, Washington DC

Childe Hassam, View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in Princeton University Art Museum

View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in // Princeton University Art Museum

Late Afternoon, New York, Winter, c 1900 Oil on canvas, 36.9 x 29 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Church at Old Lyme, 1905 Oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910 Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 19 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Water Garden, 1909 Oil on canvas, 24 x 35.9 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Drydock, Gloucester, c 1890 Watercolor over ink and graphite, 13 3/16 in x 19 1/2 in // The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Washington's Birthday — Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, 1916 Etching, 10.2 x 15.7 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Norman Structure, 1885 Pen and black ink over graphite on board, 10 3/8 x 7 5/8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, 1890 Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 21.4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Childe Hassam, The Gorge, Appledore, circa 1912 Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13.8 x 19.8 in Brooklyn Museum

The Gorge, Appledore, circa 1912 Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13.8 x 19.8 in // Brooklyn Museum

Childe Hassam, Back Road, circa 1884 Oil on canvas, 31 x 24.7 in Brooklyn Museum

Back Road, circa 1884 Oil on canvas, 31 x 24.7 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Wassily Kandinsky

On August 17, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 4, Russian

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, Russian painter, December 4, 1866-December 13, 1944

Adolf Elnain, Vassily Kandinsky, 1925

The Rider (Lyrical), 1911 Oil on canvas, 37 x 51.1 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 9.4 x 12.4 in Lenbachhaus, Munich

Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 9.4 x 12.4 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 Oil on canvas, 50.3 x 79.3 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Small Worlds I, 1922 Lithograph, 9 3/4 x 8 9/16 in // National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

On White II, 1923 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 38.5 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Circles in a Circle, 1923 Oil on canvas, 38.8 x 37.6 in // Philadelphia Art Museum

Several Circles Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 55.1 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Inner Alliance, 1929 Oil on canvas, 29.9 x 25.9 in // Albertina, Vienna

Brown with Supplement, 1935 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 39.3 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Composition 9, 1936 Oil on canvas, 44.6 x 76.7 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Composition X, 1939 Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 76.7 in // Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Various Actions, 1941 Oil and enamel on canvas, 35 1/8 x 45 3/4 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Small Dream In Red, 1925 Oil on cardboard, 14 × 16.2 in // Bern Kunstmuseum

Untitled, 1941 Gouache, 18.9 × 12.3 in // The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

In Grey, 1919 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 69.3 in // Musee National Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Composition VIII, 1923 Oil on canvas, 55.1 × 79.1 in // The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Study for "Circles on Black," 1921 Watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 in

Succession, 1935 Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in // Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Small worlds II, 1922 Four-color lithograph, 14 x 11 inches // Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Blue segment, 1921 Oil on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Painting with White Border, 1913 Oil on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Composition VII, 1913 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 118.1 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Moonlight Night, 1907 Colour lithograph, 8.4 × 7.5 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A Floating Figure, 1942 Oil on wood, 10.2 x 7.9 in Musée Zervos (Maison Romain Rolland), Vézelay, France

Otto Dix

On August 11, 2025 - 20th Century, december 2, German

Otto Dix, German painter, December 2, 1891-July 25, 1969

Hugo Erfurth, Otto Dix with a Brush, 1929 Oil pigment print

Sunrise, 1913 Oil on canvas, 20 x 26 in

Three Prostitutes On The Street, 1925 Oil on canvas Private collection

Prager Street, 1920 Oil and collage on canvas Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

Stormtroopers Advance Under a Gas Attack, from The War, 1924 Drypoint and aquatint etching

The Skull, from The War, 1924

Lens Being Bombed, from The War, 1924

Martha Dix, 1928 Oil on canvas

Mother with Child, 1921 Oil on canvas, 31.9 x 47.2 in // Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

The Artist's Parents, 1921 Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 39 in // Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926 Oil and tempera on wood, 35 x 47.6 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Engraving from "The War," 1924

Charles Demuth

On July 27, 2025 - 20th Century, American, november 8

Charles Demuth, American artist, November 8,, 1883 - October 23, 1935

Self-Portrait, 1907 Oil on canvas, 26 1/16 x 18 inches // The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA.

Charles Demuth, In Vaudeville: Acrobatic Male Dancer with Top Hat, 1920 Watercolor, graphite, and charcoal on wove paper Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

In Vaudeville: Acrobatic Male Dancer with Top Hat, 1920 Watercolor, graphite, and charcoal on wove paper, 13 x 8 in Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Pink Tulips, 1930 Watercolor and graphite on paper 13 5/8 x 19 1/4 inches // The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Dancing Sailors, 1917 Watercolor over graphite, 8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Musician, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 3/8 x 8 in Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 Oil on board, 35.5 x 30 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Iris, 1933 Watercolor and pencil on paper, 8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Bermuda No. 2, The Schooner, 1917 Watercolor and graphite on paper, 10 x 13.8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Love, Love, Love. Homage to Gertrude Stein, 1928 Oil on panel, 20 x 21 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Chimney and Water Tower, 1931 Oil on board Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth

Machinery, 1920 Gouache and graphite on paperboard, 24 x 19 7/8 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

After Sir Christopher Wren, 1920 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cardboard, 24 x 20 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lulu and Alva Schön at Lunch, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 7.9 x 12.9 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

The Death of Countess Geschwitz, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 7.9 x 12.9 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Piano Mover's Holiday, 1919 Distemper on composition board, 20 x 15.9 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Calla Lilies/Bert Savoy, 1927 Oil on board, 40.9 x 47.5 in // Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Lancaster, 1921 Tempera and pencil on paperboard, 19.8 x 16 in Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Bermuda: Tree, 1917 Edit this at Wikidata Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 x 14 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

William Merritt Chase

On July 12, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, november 1

William Merritt Chase, American painter, November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916

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Afternoon by the Sea (Gravesend Bay), ca 1888 Pastel on linen

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William Merritt Chase, Mrs Meigs Playing the Piano, 1883

Mrs Meigs Playing the Piano, 1883 Oil on canvas Unknown location

End of the Season, c. 1885 Pastel on paper, 13.8 x 17.7 in // Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley

The Mirror, c.1883 Oil on canvas Private Collection

The White Fence Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in

Portrait of Louis Betts Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in Private Collection

For the Little One, aka Hall at Shinnecock Oil on canvas, 35 x 40 in

Afternoon Shadows Oil on panel

Frank Duveneck

On July 8, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, october 9

Frank Duveneck, American painter, October 9, 1848 - January 3, 1919

Self-portrait, circa 1877 Oil on canvas, 29.3 x 23.7 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

The Turkish Page, 1876 Oil on canvas, 42 x 58 1/4 in // Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

The Cobbler’s Apprentice, 1877 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 27.8 in // Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati

Elizabeth Boott Duveneck, 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.7 x 34.7 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Portrait of Maggie Wilson, 1898 Oil on cardboard, 15 x 12 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Major Dillard H. Clark, 1877 Oil on canvas Formerly Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Winslow Homer Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 20 x 15.9 in // Private collection

Reclining Nude, 1892 Oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art

Portrait of Marie Danforth Page, circa 1889 Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 25.2 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Beechwoods at Polling, circa 1876 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Still-life with Watermelon, circa 1878 Oil on canvas, 25 x 38 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Professor Ludwig Loefftz, circa 1873 Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 28.7 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

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