Mountains at Collioure 1905 Andre Derain ​ Derain's paintings are designed to make an impact. His generation of painters had grown...

Red Poppy IV Georgia O'Keeffe I love Georgia O'Keeffe's work. Sure, you would have needed to have undergone reconfiguring of the more...

The Striped Blouse 1895 Eduoard Vuillard This is the kind of painting which triggers so many reactions, you need to let them calm down...

Byblos 2017 Gillian Ayres Some artists are simply heroic. Gillian Ayres went to study art at Camberwell College of Arts, but found the...

Almond Tree in Blossom date uncertain Pierre Bonnard My aesthetics tutor would remind us after each tutorial in Spring "Go and look at...

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. 1886 John Singer Sargent It would be easy to dismiss this offering from the much-travelled artist John...

Azalea Garden 1956 Patrick Heron It has been suggested that Claude Monet never wanted people to stand at a distance from his huge water...

Still Life 1663 Maria van Oosteryck During the Seventeenth Century there was a great fashion for still life paintings, most notably of...

The Triumph of Music Marc Chagall 1966 ​ This delightful painting is a preparatory sketch for a huge mural created in the Metropolitan...