Day 1112 “Narzissen, Vergißmeinnicht und Schmetterling” (1659) Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian was born on April 2 in 1647 and this is a drawing she made at the tender age of 10. She was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator.

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2023-04-01

Day 1111 “Rainstorm over the Sea” (1828) John Constable. Constable died on this day in 1837. This dramatic study of sea and sky was painted in Brighton. The black clouds and downpour were painted rapidly to capture the fleeting nature of the scene.

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2023-03-31

Day 1108 “Souvenir de Paris” (1976) Marc Chagall. Private Collection. Chagall died on this day in 1985. He was an artist of international repute who was one of the most influential modern artists of the 20th century.

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2023-03-28

Day 1091 “Still Life with Mackerel” (1787) Anne Vallayer-Coster This refined work by one of the foremost still-life painters of 18th century France celebrates the arrival of fresh mackerel in Spring, when rich Parisians could enjoy this popular fish.

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2023-03-11

Day 1089 “Flowers and Fruit on a Blue Table” (1961) Haroutiun Galentz. Private Collection. Galentz’s father owned a wool-dying factory with vats of bright colours. During the Armenian genocide, his father was taken away by Turkish soldiers, never to be seen again

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2023-03-09

Day 1086 “Doni Tondo” (1507) Michelangelo. Michelangelo was born on this day in 1475. This was painted for a Florentine merchant, Agnolo Doni, whose marriage in 1504 took place in a period that was crucial for early 16th-century Florentine art.

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2023-03-06

Day 1085 “Rhubarb Still Life” (1919) Max Slevogt. Museum Georg Schäfer. Slevogt was an Impressionist painter, known for his landscapes. He was, together with Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann, one of the foremost representatives in Germany of the plein air style.

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2023-03-05

Day 1084 “Murnau With Church II” (1910) Wassily Kandinsky. Private Collection. This painting was sold at auction by Sotheby’s of London on Wednesday last for a record £37.2m, on behalf of the great-grandchildren of the original owners, Johanna and Siegbert Stern.

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2023-03-04

Day 1065 “Bouquet of Flowers in a Glass Vase”(1621) Ambrosius Bosschaert. Bosschaert was a painter of joyful flower bouquets. He had a great awareness of composition and combined flowers in a wide variety of colours to create a pleasing visual experience.

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2023-02-13

Day 1060 "Horse in the Landscape" (1910) Franz Marc Marc was born on this day in 1884. This is one of the earliest works where Marc, inspired by Kandinsky, experiments with colours. He had a close relationship with animals, especially horses.

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2023-02-08

Day 1052 "Am Seeufer (Bank of a Lake)" (1910) Max Pechstein Pechstein was born on this day in 1881. He was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker and the only member of Die Brücke to have received formal art training.

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2023-01-31

Day 1031 "La Dame aux Perles" (1901) Sir John Lavery. Lavery died on this day in 1941. Comparisons were made between this portrait and the work of Sargent. However, in his portraiture, Lavery protects the reserve of his sitters more than Sargent.

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2023-01-10

Day 1025 "Grey Fireworks" (2000) Helen Frankenthaler. Private Collection. Frankenthaler’s brilliantly coloured canvases were admired for their lyrical qualities. Influenced by Gorky and Pollock, she was a member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists

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2023-01-04

Day 1011 "Soap Bubbles" (1859) Thomas Couture. Thomas Couture was born on this day in 1815. A schoolboy, identifiable by the books on the desk, contemplates soap bubbles, traditional symbols of the transience of life.

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2022-12-21

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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2022-10-27

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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2022-08-28

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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2022-08-07

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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2022-07-31

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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2022-07-29

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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2022-07-25