Eric White, No Neutral Thoughts, 2008

William Turner, Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth, 1842

Max Ernst, The Dark Gods, 1957

"The Lewis chessmen are a group of 12th-century chess pieces most of which are carved in walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets." ~ Wikipedia

The Lewis Chessmen

Dora Maar, Femme Nu #55, 1935

Egon Schiele, Standing Woman in Red, 1913

Rachel's, Family Portrait from the album Music for Egon Schiele

Edvard Munch, Two People. The Lonely Ones, 1899

Ivan Aivazovsky, A Strong Wind, 1856

Born this day.

Edgar Degas, La Coiffure, 1896

Born this day

Gustav Klimt, Detail from the Beethoven Frieze, 1902

Leena McCall, Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing

Detail from Glycon of Athens' marble copy of Lysippos' lost bronze original, Farnese Hercules, ~ 216 AD

So much power in that beaten face with cauliflower ears and broken nose.

Detail from the Boxer of Quirinal, ~330 B.C.

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Maude Abrantes, 1907

Daniel Arsham, Eyes, 2010

Pablo Picasso, Bulls Head, 1942

“Jeff is like the man who fell to earth, who, in this grotesque time of art flippage and speculative mania, is either the icing on the cake or some kind of Piketty-esque harbinger of the return of Brecht’s ‘making strange.’ Or a glitteringly bent version of that alienated vision. He brings the cake and lets them eat it.” ~ Barbara Kruger in Jeff Koons Is Back!

Jeff Koons, Popeye, 2009-2011 (sold for $28.2 million)

Dariusz Zawadzki, I’ll Give You My Angel

Zdzisław Beksiński, Untitled, 1984

Egon Schiele, Male Nude with Red Cloth, 1914