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Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer. Greek, Hellenistic period, 3rd-2nd century B.C. Bronze, 8 1/16 x 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Hair Ornament with Bust of Athena, Gold, red garnets, blue enamel, Greek, Hellenistic period, 2nd century B.C. D. 11.1 cm. Athens, Benaki Museum.

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The Vienna Cameo, Greek (Ptolemaic), Early Hellenistic period, 278-270/69 B.C. Ten–layered onyx (Indian sardonyx). H. 41/2 in. (11.5 cm), W. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Antikensammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (IXa 81)

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Aneta Grzeszykowska — Untitled (Skin Doll), 2016.  

Sculpture: Natural leather, stuffing and metal, 100 x 40 x 54 cm. Private collection.

Sculpture

Contemporary

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Frank Auerbach — Head of Leon Kossoff, 1954.  

Painting: mixed media. Marlborough Fine Art, London.

Male Portraits

Expressionist Portraits

Dark

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Maggi Hambling — Edge I, 2014.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 78 x 89 in.. Marlborough Fine Art, London.

Abstract Expressionism

Contemporary Abstract

Nonrepresentational

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Maggi Hambling — Edge IV, 2016.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in.. Marlborough Fine Art, London.

Abstract Expressionism

Contemporary Abstract

Nonrepresentational

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Maggi Hambling — Hamlet, 2015.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 67 x 48 in.. Marlborough Fine Art, London.

Literature

Expressionist Portraits

Distortion

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Maggi Hambling — Aleppo III, 2016.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 72 x 84 in.. Marlborough Fine Art, London.

Contemporary Abstract

Black and Yellow

Expressionism

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Maria Kreyn — Messenger in White, 2011.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in.. Private collection.

Female Portraits

Mystical

Contemporary Figurative Painting

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Frank Auerbach — Head of E.O.W., 1957.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm. Marlborough Fine Art, London.

'E.O.W.' - Estella (Stella) West - began posing regularly for Auerbach in the early 1950s, and continued to do so until 1973. By then he had completed about 80 drawings and paintings of her.

Expressionist Portraits

Head of a Woman in Profile

1950s

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Frank Auerbach — Head of Paula Eyles, 1972.  

Paint: mixed media.

Expressionist Portraits

Female Portraits

1970s

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Maria Kreyn — Event Horizon, 2010.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.. Private collection.

Female Portraits

Mystical

Contemporary Figurative Painting

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Maria Kreyn, Alone Together, 2012

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Arnold Bocklin — Isle of the Dead, 1880.  

Painting: oil on canvas, 111 x 155 cm. Kunstmuseum Basel.

Symbolism

Allegory

1880s

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The Green Masque, a portrait of the artist’s wife, Rhoda Oswald Birley, 1922 Private Collection

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Frank Auerbach — Playing Card - Two Heads J.Y.M., 1969.  

Printmaking: screenprint on paper, 82 x 61 cm. Tate.

Figurative Abstraction

Black

Modernism