Day 956 “Combat” (1965) Lee Krasner. Krasner was born on this day in 1908. She was there from the beginning of Abstract Expressionism, exhibiting alongside her husband, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning.

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Day 896 “Love Among the Ruins” (1873) Edward Burne-Jones. Private Collection. Edward Burne-Jones was born on this day in 1833. The work depicts two lovers in blue robes, a man and a woman, seated together on a stone capital amid the ruins of buildings.

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Day 875 “Kleine Sonnenblumen” (1946) Emil Nolde. Nolde was born on this day in 1867. His intensely coloured depictions of urban nightlife, biblical scenes, floral motifs, and landscapes are exemplars of German Expressionism.

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Day 868 “Ground Swell” (1939) Edward Hopper. This depicts a group of young people in a boat. The scene reveals Hopper's enthusiasm for the sea, which can also be seen in his other nautical artworks – most notably his paintings of New England lighthouses.

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Day 866 “Roses” (1890) Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh died on this day in 1890. At the time this work was painted the Dutch artist was readying himself to leave the asylum in Saint-Rémy for the quiet town of Auvers-sur-Oise outside of Paris.

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Day 862 “Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell” (1897) Giovanni Boldini. I saw this painting yesterday at the Boldini retrospective at Gertrude Elizabeth Blood was an Irish aristocrat made famous by her divorce from Lord Colin Campbell.

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Day 825 “Port of Marseille” (1916) Albert Marquet. I’m off to Marseille today. French artist Marquet was one of the Fauvists and was a lifelong friend of Matisse. He subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes.

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Since there's an update tomorrow, and we might see the new evolutions??? I thought it would be fun to try another attempt at Caimante. I got a lot of people telling me how much they loved Scovidile! So I wanted to try another angle that leaned more into that concept. For the fans

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Day 799 “Small Town” (1920) Carl Lohse. Carl Lohse was a artist I hadn’t heard of before my visit to Dresden last month. The Hamburg-born painter created stunning Expressionist works but he and his paintings seldom received the attention they deserved.

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Day 790 “The Cottage Girl” (1785) Thomas Gainsborough. The English painter Gainsborough was born on this day in 1727. The child in ragged clothing standing forlornly by a stream with a broken pitcher is one of his most celebrated ‘fancy pictures’.

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Day 785 “Girl with a Silver Fish” (1889) William Robert Symonds. English artist Symonds specialised in genre scenes, often sentimental, involving children and animals. He studied in Antwerp and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1876.

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Day 765 “Porthmeor Beach, St Ives” (c. 1945) Dorothea Sharp. Private Collection. Sharp was a British artist best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play. It was not until the age of twenty-one that she seriously took up painting.

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Day 754 “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” (1907) Pablo Picasso. Picasso died on this day in 1973. This large work portrays five nude female prostitutes in a brothel. Each one is depicted in a confrontational manner and none is conventionally feminine.

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Day 751 “Young Girl Reading” (1769 ) Jean-Honoré Fragonard. French artist Fragonard was born on this day in 1732. He painted a group of works known as his fantasy figures: showing individual models in fancy dress using loose brushwork and bright colours.

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Day 714 “Clotilde seated on the Sofa” (1910) Joaquín Sorolla. Sorolla was born on this day in 1863. His wife was a frequent source of inspiration. He showed her in different formats and his portrayals are always full of affection and admiration.

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Day 706 “Girl with a Vase of Flowers” (1902) Stanisław Wyspiański. Wyspiański was a Polish playwright, painter and poet. His artistic output is very eclectic - he produced drawings, oil paintings and pastel drawings, portraits and self-portraits.

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Day 658 “Climate Change” (2003) Max Hague Hague is a Scotland-based Mancunian artist whose paintings have featured in exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA. His work has been showcased at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

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Day 575 “The Bridge at Chatou” (1907) Maurice de Vlaminck. Maurice de Vlaminck died on this day in 1958. He belonged to the circle of friends of the Fauves, whose bright colour compositions had revolutionised painting since 1905.

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