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  • Ballet at the Paris Opéra, 1877 Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
  • Alka Seltzer, 1966 Roy Lichtenstein
  • A Young Lady with a Parrot, c. 1730 Rosalba Carriera
  • After the Hurricane, Bahamas, 1899 Winslow Homer
  • Harvest Talk, 1953 Charles White
  • Flower Clouds, c. 1903 Odilon Redon
  • Two Women’s Torsos, 1952 Willem de Kooning
  • Statue of the Madonna in the Mountains, 1804 Caspar David Friedrich
  • The Artist’s Mother, 1926 or 1936 Arshile Gorky
  • Black and White, 1953 Lee Krasner
  • Perilous Night, 1982 Jasper Johns
  • Young Bull, c. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508 Albrecht Dürer
  • Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap, 1765/68 Joseph Wright of Derby
  • Self-Portrait with a Visor, c. 1776 Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin
  • Seated Female Nude, 1660/62 Rembrandt van Rijn
  • Green and Blue: The Dancer, c. 1893 James McNeill Whistler
  • Crouching Woman, 1827 Eugène Delacroix
  • The Letter, or The Spanish Conversation, c. 1778 Jean Honoré Fragonard
  • The Old Savoyard, c. 1715 Jean Antoine Watteau
  • Panorama from the Sasso, 1649/1655 Claude Lorrain
  • Self-Portrait, 1924 Lovis Corinth
  • Royal Horse Inspection, Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), late 17th century ‘Aliquli Jabbadar
  • Priest and Boy, n.d. Lawrence Carmichael Earle
  • Geese in a Farmyard, c. 1871 Jean François Millet
  • Standing Nude Woman, n.d. Sir George Clausen
  • Yacht Race, c. 1896–97 Maurice Brazil Prendergast
  • Still Life: Apples and Green Glass, 1925 Charles Demuth
  • Saint Benedict Presenting his Rule to Benedictine and Cistercian Monks in a Historiated Initial “O” from a Choirbook, 1394/95 Martino di Bartolomeo di Biagio
  • Decorated Initial “G” in Pink with Curling Leaves from a Manuscript, 14th century or modern, c. 1920
  • Head of Child, n.d. Carlo Maratti
  • Untitled, 1955 Kurt Seligmann
  • Head of a Woman with a Blue Necklace, 1932 Paul Kleinschmidt
  • Female Nude Bending Toward the Left, n.d. Georg Kolbe
  • Mae West’s Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, 1934–35 Salvador Dalí
  • Tetuan, Morocco, 1923 George Elmer Browne
  • White Shell with Red, 1938 Georgia O’Keeffe
  • Jockey, 1866–68 Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
  • Women Fighting, n.d. William Rothenstein
  • Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman, 1941 Joan Miró
  • Sketches of Patmos, Sardis, Obelisk of Heliopolis, n.d. Unknown artist
  • The Anthropomorphic Tower, 1930 Salvador Dalí
  • Composition with Black and Gray, 1958 Claude Ronald Bentley
  • Butterfly, c. 1890 James McNeill Whistler
  • Head of Young Woman, Resting on Hand, 1928 John Bradley Storrs
  • Bishop at Mass in a Historiated Initial “P” from a Choirbook, c. 1300 Master Honoré
  • Untitled, 1960 James McGarrell
  • Study for Marphise and the Mistress of Pinabel, c. 1852 Eugène Delacroix
  • Buildings, c. 1910 John Marin
  • City of Drawers, 1936 Salvador Dalí
  • Untitled, 1944 Jackson Pollock

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