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An etching of a woman, nude, depicting the woman's face and body. The setting is blank, although she seems to be sitting and leaning on something, perhaps a sofa or bed, with a vacant, sleepy expression.

Blond Girl

Lucian Freud

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This dish is a painting in miniature, with an exceptional variety of colour, expressive figures, beautifully rendered textures and a dramatic crowd scene. The Christian imagery continues onto the back, with angels hovering in and out of clouds, carrying symbols of Christ’s Passion (Death and Resurrection)

Footed Bowl with the Crucifixion

Urbino, Italy, probably Workshop of Orazio Fontana (around 1510-1571) or Antonio Patanazzi (1515-1587), 1550-70

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Triptych – The Apocalypse

The Myth of Prometheus

Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka reworked biblical and mythological stories in the triptych to express his fears for humanity following the Second World War....

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A black and brown ink drawing on slightly aged paper. Abstract lines and parallel-like hatchings, which look slightly like either eyelashes or crosshatches, form a spiralling composition from the upper right corner of the sheet downwards. The artist marking 'K', circled, and the number '16'. are visible in the bottom left corner.

Untitled

Wassily Kandinsky

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Ornate jug with saz leaves on a green fish-scale ground and an embellished curved silver handle and rim, Circa 1560

Jug

Probably Iznik, Around 1560

From the early 16th century, the Ottoman Empire became Venice’s main trading partner in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Ottomans exported to Europe their highly prized pottery made in the imperial workshops of Iznik, near Istanbul. Jugs like this were...

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A detailed etching print depicting a rabbit hunt in action. On a hill overlooking a river, a hunter takes aim at two rabbits as his dog looks on - another hunter appears to stalk him with a spear. A castle can be seen in the top right of the scene.

Rabbit Hunt

Pieter the Elder Bruegel

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Large moulded dish with Harpy border decorated in blue with a putto supporting a double coat-of-arms in centre flanked by putti and surmounted by a coronet

Dish with Coat of Arms

Savona, Italy, 1663-78

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The painting offers a disorienting scene of partially constructed floor levels, jutting beams and extremes of light and dark. Auerbach’s use of red throughout the work gives fiery intensity to the painting, as if we are witness to an intense, almost hellish, vision.

Rebuilding the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square

Frank Auerbach

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A brown ink drawing on light brown paper. A factory sits across the middle third, fenced off, with a field visible in the foreground, illustrated with simple flecks, lines and dots. A tree is visible on the right, taller than the factory, and a man sits atop a horse-drawn carriage next to the tree.

A Tile Factory

Vincent van Gogh

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A detailed, busy drawing of peasant life. Scenes of drinking and dancing, with figures relieving themselves, and an archery contest in the bottom right. In the upper left, the state of a saint is carried at the head of a religious procession.

Kermis at Hoboken

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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A sketch of a nude female form, with her back to the viewer in a relaxed reclining pose. The sketch stops at her neck and the right hand, leaning on her hips, is not finished.

Study for La Grande Odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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A children's book illustration of a girl who sits asleep on an island, surrounded by creatures - blue birds, white deer, and red fish - in pairs, emphasising her solitude. The print uses vivid colours of blue, green, red and yellow and bold black lines. 'DIE TRÄUMENDEN KNABEN.' is read on the right hand side.

Sleeping Girl (from The Dreaming Youths)

Oskar Kokoschka

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