An artwork a day ...

Miranda July (American, 1974), Tap each dot..., 2010. Children activity series for apartamento magazine (#6, 11/2010).

Ilya Repin (Russian, Realism, 1844-1930). A Summer Landscape (Vera Repina on a Bridge in Abramtsevo), 1879. Oil on canvas, 38x61cm. Museum of Private Collections in A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

Aleksandr Deyneka (Soviet Russian, Social Realism, 1899-1969). At Study, 1961.

Emile Friant (French, Realism, 1863-1932). The Lovers (Autumn Evening), 1888. Oil on canvas, 111 x 145 cm (43.7" x 57.09"). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France.

Edouard Manet (French, Impressionism, 1832-1883), Monet in his floating Studio, 1874. Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 100.5 cm. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.

Claude Monet (French, Impressionism, 1840-1926), Antibes in the Morning, 1888. Oil on canvas, 65,5x92,4cm. Courtauld Gallery, London, UK.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, Impressionism, 1841-1919), Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil, 1873. Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, US.

Jan Vermeer (Dutch, Baroque, 1632-1675), Girl with as Pearl Earring, c. 1665. Oil on canvas, 44.5x39cm (17.5x15 in). Mauritshuis, The Hague, currently in the Frick Collection, NYC.

Gottfried Helnwein (Austrian, *1948, Hyperrealism), The Song I, 1981. Watercolour on cardboard, 160 cm x 116 cm, 45"x62". Private Collection.

Bernhard Heisig (German, Leipzig School, 1925-2011), What's New from the Tower, 1977. Oil on canvas, 148x118cm. Moritzburg, Halle/Saale, Germany.

The painting has just been sold at Christie's in New York for $142.4 million and therefore became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The painting shows Lucian Freud, a close friend and fellow artist of the painter, and is considered one of his greatest masterpieces. It was sold after six minutes of bidding to an anonymous buyer. The price eclipsed the $119.9m paid for Edvard Munch's "The Scream" last year.

Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Portuguese, Realism, 1857-1929), A Chávena de Chá, 1898.

Ai Weiwei (Chinese, Conceptual Artist, *1957), Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo, 1994. Paint on Han Dynasty urn, 10" by 11" by 11".

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, Baroque, 1571-1610). Basket of Fruit, c.1599. Oil on canvas, 31 cm × 47 cm (12 in × 19 in). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan.

3) Head with Fruit Basket, ca. 1590. Oil on wood. 55.9 x 41.6 cm (22 x 16 3/8 in.).

And studies of the heads of two young women from 1898.

Neo Rauch (*1960, German, "New Leipzig School"), The Next Move (Der nächste Zug), 2007. Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm (59 x 78").