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Aristide Maillol

On December 2, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 8, French

Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter, December 8, 1861-September 27, 1944

Aristide Maillol photographed in 1925 by Alfred Kuhn

The Three Graces, 1930

Sitting Woman, Bronze, c 1914

Female Torso "Summer," c 1910 Bronze, 33.9 x 18.9 x 13 in // Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden

The Cyclist, 1907

The Woman with the Umbrella, 1895 Oil on canvas, 75 x 58.8 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of Mademoiselle Jeanne Faraill, between 1888 and 1889 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 40.3 in // Private collection

Portrait of Dina, 1940 Oil on canvas

Sunflowers

Study of a Woman Sanguine on paper Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France

Two Nudes, One From the Front, the Other From the Back Louvre, Paris

Naked Woman Sitting, Holding Her Right Leg, Louvre, Paris

Tulip, 1941 Sanguine on paper Musée Maillol, Paris.

Paul Manship

On December 2, 2025 - 20th Century, American, december 25

Paul Manship, American Sculptor, December 25, 1885 – January 28, 1966

Paul Manship, The Cycle of Life Sundial Campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts

The Cycle of Life Sundial Campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts The Cycle of Life sundial shows a man, woman and child representing the cycle of life are surrounded by an armillary sphere showing the relationship of the stars and earth. Paul Manship is best known for his Prometheus sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York.

Salome, 1915 Bronze, 18 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 10 3/8 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Artwork at Entrance to 195 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City

Atalanta, 1921 Bronze, 28 3/4 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Diana and a Hound, 1924 Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley Island, South Carolina

The Flight of Europa, 1925 Bronze sculpture with gold leaf Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Bulldog, 1906 Bronze, 2.2 x 2.2 x 1.9 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Danae, 1921 Bronze and wood, 11.4 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Dancer and Gazelles, 1916 Bronze, 32.4 x 33 x 10 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Actaeon, 1925

Europa and the Bull #1, 1924 Bronze and marble, 10.2 x 10.2 x 7.1 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Indian Hunter and His Dog, 1926 Bronze, 23.2 x 23.5 x 7 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Diego Rivera

On November 29, 2025 - 20th Century, december 8, Mexican

Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957

Diego Rivera, before 1957 Gelatin-bromide silver on paper Collection Museo Frida Kahlo

Portrait of Anguelina Beloff, 1918. Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 58.3 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Spanish Still Life, 1918 Oil on canvas, 21.25 × 25.6 in // Diego Rivera's Art House-Museum ,Guanajuato, Mexico

Self-portrait with Broad-Brimmed Hat, 1907 Oil on canvas, 33.26 x 24.21 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Street in Ávila, 1908 Oil on canvas, 50.78 x 55.51 in // Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

The House on the Bridge, 1909 Oil on canvas, 57.87 x 47.63 in // Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City

The Mathematician, 1919 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 31.7 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Still Life with Ricer, 1918 Oil on canvas Unknown location

Mural of Exploitation of Mexico by Spanish Conquistadores, 1929–1945 National Palace of Mexico, Mexico City

The Great City of Tenochtitlan, 1945 National Palace of Mexico, Mexico City

Mural of the Aztec City of Tenochtitlan and Life in Aztec Times, 1945 National Palace of Mexico, Mexico City

El Picador, 1909 Oil on canvas, 69.68 x 44.48 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Knife and Fruit in Front of the Window, 1917 Oil on canvas, 36.14 x 36.37 in // Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City

Lucian Freud

On November 29, 2025 - 20th Century, december 8, English

Lucian Freud, British painter, December 8, 1922 - July 20, 2011

Girl with a White Dog, 1951–1952 Oil paint on canvas, 30 x 40 in Tate Gallery, London

Girl in a Striped Nightshirt, 1983–5 Oil paint on canvas, 12 x 10 in Tate Gallery, London

The Painter’s Mother IV, 1973 Oil paint on canvas, 10.75 x 7.3 in // Tate Gallery, London

Last Portrait, 1976 - 1977 Oil and pencil on canvas, 24 x 24 in // Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Lucian Freud, Naked Girl Asleep II, 1968 Oil on canvas Private Collection, 22 x 22 in

Naked Girl Asleep II, 1968 Oil on canvas, , 22 x 22 in // Private Collection

Large Interior, Paddington, 1968 - 1969 Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Queen Elizabeth II, 2000 - 2001 Oil on canvas // Royal Collection (Buckingham Palace), London, UK

Red Haired Man on a Chair, 1962 - 1963 Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in

A Man and his Daughter, 1963 - 1964 Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in // Private Collection

Cyclamen, 1964 Oil on canvas, 19.4 x 18 in // Private Collection

Frank Auerbach, 1975 - 1976 Oil on canvas, 10.4 x 15.75 in // Private Collection

Head of a Girl, 1975 - 1976 Oil on canvas, 28 x 28 in // Private Collection

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

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