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Edward Hopper

On April 20, 2025 - 20th Century, American

Robert Henri

On April 17, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, july 12

Robert Henri, American painter, June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929

"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think." — Robert Henri

Betalo Rubino, Dramatic Dancer, 1916 Oil on canvas, 77 1/4 × 37 1/4 in // Saint Louis Art Museum

Salome, 1909 Oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

La Madrileñita, 1910 Oil on canvas, 23 × 19 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Snow in New York, 1902 Oil on canvas, 32 x 25.7 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fete du Dieu - Concarneau, 1899 Oil on canvas

Marine with Rocks, 1909 Oil on canvas

Edgar Degas

On April 14, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, july 19

Edgar Degas, French Artist, July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917

"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false." — Degas

Eugène Manet, 1874 Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 33.9 // Private Collection

Three Ukrainian Dancers, 1895 Pastel, 24.5 x 20.9 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Edgar Degas, At the Milliner's, 1882 Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting, 30 x 34 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

At the Milliner's, 1882 Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting, 30 x 34 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Self Portrait with Evariste de Valernes, c.1865 Oil on canvas, 45.9 x 35.3 in Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Self Portrait Saluting, 1863 92x61cm Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 24 in // Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

At the Mirror, c. 1889 Pastel on paper, 19.3 x 25.2 in // Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Harlequin and Columbina, 1886

Two Riders by a Lake, c.1861 Pen and ink // Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris

Paul Lafond and Alphonse Cherfils Examining a Painting, c. 1878–80 Oil on wood panel, 16 3/4 x 19 11/16 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Dancer in Ukrainian Dress, 1899 Pastel over charcoal on tracing paper, 24.3 in x 17.9 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lowering the Curtain, c.1880 Pastel Private Collection

Houses at the Foot of a Cliff (Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme.), circa 1895-1898 Oil on canvas, 36.2 in x 28.6 in // Columbus Museum of Art

The Road, 1878 Monotype (black ink) on china paper National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Portrait of a Woman, 1877 Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 × 21 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Woman with a Bandage, between 1872 and 1873 Oil on canvas, 13 × 9 3/4 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Violinist and Young Woman, ca. 1871 Oil and crayon on canvas, 18 1/4 × 22 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Woman with a Vase, 1872 Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 21.3 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas, 1871 - 1872 Oil on canvas, 21.25x 15.35 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Louis-Marie Pilet, Violoncellist in the Orchestra of the Opéra, 1868-69 Oil on canvas, 19.9 x 24 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Hélène Rouart in her Father's Study, circa 1886 Oil on canvas, 63.9 x 47.6 in // National Gallery, London

Place de la Concorde, 1875 Oil on canvas, 30.8 x 46.2 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Bellelli Family, 1858 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 98.4 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

At the Races in the Countryside, 1869 Oil on canvas, 14.37 x 22 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The Orchestra at the Opera, circa 1870. Oil on canvas, 22.2 x 17.7 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Woman Getting out of the Bath, c. 1877 Pastel over monotype on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée, 1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 19 x 16.5 in // Private collection

Two Dancers, ca. 1879 Pastel and gouache on paper, 18 1/8 x 26 ¼ in // Shelburne Museum, Vermont

Woman in a Tub, 1886 Pastel on paper, 27.5 x 27.5 in // Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

James Ensor

On April 13, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, april 13, Belgian

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor, Belgian painter, April 13, 1860 – November 19, 1949

Portrait of James Ensor, 1940s

Still Life with Chinoiseries, circa 1906 Oil on canvas, 30.9 in x 38.7 in // Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Self Portrait with Demons, 1898 Lithograph, 21 1/16 x 14 5/8 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

My Portrait in the Year 1960, 1888 Etching, 6.9 x 12 in Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

Intrigue, 1890 Oil on canvas, 35.2 in x 58.6 in // Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

Self Portrait with Demons, 1898 Lithograph, 21 1/16 x 14 5/8 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

Henry Ossawa Tanner

On April 10, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, june 21

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

On April 8, 2025 - 20th Century, august 14, Lithuanian

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Lithuanian artist, August 14, 1875 – November 20, 1957

Portrait of Dobuzhinsky by Osip Braz, 1922

Vilno. Side street Piles, c 1906

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, The Man in Eyeglasses (Konstantin Erberg), circa 1905–1906 Watercolor, gouache, charcoal and pencil on paper mounted on cardboard, 24.9 x 39.2 in Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Man in Eyeglasses (Konstantin Erberg), circa 1905–1906 Watercolor, gouache, charcoal and pencil on paper mounted on cardboard, 24.9 x 39.2 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

New York Rooftops, my Window in New York, 1943 Oil on cardboard, 30 x 20 in // Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Urban Types, 1908 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 8.7 × 11.4 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Provinces in the 1830s, c.1908 Watercolor on paper

Glassmakers Street in Vilno, 1906 Pencil, watercolor, and whitewash on paper State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Vitebsk, 1919 Ink and watercolor on paper

October Idyll, 1905

The Lion Bridge in Petrograd, 1922

Saint Petersburg, 1904

White Nights, 1922, Illustration

Riga Watercolor on paper

Project for the First Almanac "Chipovnick", 1906 Illustration

Odd Nerdrum

On April 8, 2025 - 20th Century, april 8, Norwegian

Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter, born 8 April 1944

Odd Nerdrum, 2020

Sleeping Boy, 1992 Oil on canvas, 19 x 20 1/2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Cloud, 1985 Oil on canvas, 48.4 x 54.7 in // The Nerdrum Museum, Stavern, Norway

Cannibals, 2005 Oil on Canvas, 79 in × 98 in // Private collection

Gustav Klimt

On April 7, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, Austrian, july 14

Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist, 14 July 1862-6 February 1918

Photographic portrait of Gustav Klimt from 1914

Park, 1909-1910 Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 43.5 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

Beech Grove, circa 1902 Oil on canvas, 39.3 in x 39.3 in // Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden

Portrait of a Lady, 1894 Oil on canvas, 11.8 x 9 in // Vienna Museum

The Blind Man, 1896 Oil on canvas, 26.0 x 21.0 in // Leopold Museum, Vienna

Schubert at the Piano I, circa 1896 Oil on canvas, 11.8 x 15.3 in // Private collection

Mermaids, circa 1899 Oil on canvas, 32.3 x 20.5 in // Bank Austria Creditanstalt Collection, Vienna

Lake Atter, 1900 Oil on canvas, 31.57 x 31.57 in // Leopold Museum, Vienna

Woman in an Armchair, 1897 Oil on board, 20 1/2 by 20 1/2 in // Private collection

Arthur Wesley Dow

On April 6, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, april 6

Arthur Wesley Dow, American artist, April 6, 1857 – December 13, 1922

Dow posed at the Grand Canyon for Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Arthur Wesley Dow, Willows in the Meadow, from Ipswich Prints, first set, 1902 Photo-mechanical relief reproduction on paper, 7 x 8 in Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Willows in the Meadow, from Ipswich Prints, first set, 1902 Photo-mechanical relief reproduction on paper, 7 x 8 in // Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Cosmic Cities, Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1912 Oil On Canvas, 60 x 78 in Private Collection

The Long Road--Argilla Road, Ipswich, ca. 1898 Color woodcut, 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

John Singer Sargent

On April 5, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 12

John Singer Sargent, American artist, January, 12, 1856– April 14, 1925

Purdy, John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent, Spanish Soldiers, ca. 1903 Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 12 x 18 1/16 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

Spanish Soldiers, ca. 1903 Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 12 x 18 1/16 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice, c.1904 Watercolor on paper, 100 x 140 in // Tate Gallery, London

John Singer Sargent, Daphne, 1910 Translucent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist, over graphite on paper, 20 11/16 x 15 13/16 in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Daphne, 1910 Translucent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist, over graphite on paper, 20 11/16 x 15 13/16 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Dugout, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 15 5/16 x 20 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

John Singer Sargent, Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885 Oil on canvas, 20.5 in x 24.4 in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885 Oil on canvas, 20.5 in x 24.4 in // Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

John D. Rockefeller, 1917 Oil canvas, 57.9 in x 45 in // Private collection

Group with Parasols (Siesta), 1904. Oil on canvas; 22 3/8 x 28 9/16 in // Private Collection

White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco, 1879–80 Oil on wood, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

John Singer Sargent, Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 Charcoal on white laid paper, 18 15/16 x 24 11/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 Charcoal on white laid paper, 18 15/16 x 24 11/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Small Boats, 1913 Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 10 x 13 15/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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