CROPPED IN SILVER

Irene Chou (Zhou Lüyun, 1924-2011) — Heartbeat [ink and colour on xuan paper, hanging scroll, 1980]

Unknown Chinese Sculptor, Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, ca. 580 CE - Northern Zhou or early Sui Dynasty, limestone, from The Old Stone Buddha Monastery (Gu Shi-fo Si) near Xi'an, Shanxi Province, China (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. 7th century, Vietnam. This very rare and extraordinary bronze sculpture, found in Vietnam, is strongly dependent stylistically on southwestern Chinese prototypes

“Line- An Art Study” – Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1922)

This mask, believed to have been made at Kete Krachi in the Volta region of Ghana, is now in the Arts of Africa Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York City, NY, USA. Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Birth of an idea (c.1920) - Norwood Hodge MacGilvary (1874-1949)

Winter Landscape by Peder Monsted, 1920.

Luca Giordano, 1675-1680 Oil on Canvas

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist (1615) by Artemisia Gentileschi

“Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon” (1832) by Utagawa Hiroshige

Artist: Jessie M. King (1875-1949) was a Scottish illustrator. Born into a strict family who disproved of her art as a child, she found solace in the family houskeeper, who become her second mother. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1892–1899). She is known for her illustrated children's books. She frequently depicted ethereal "wan haloed knights" and pale ladies draped in stars, influenced by her lifelong belief in fairies.  She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. Jessie was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She was described in 1927 in the Aberdeen Press and Journal as "the pioneer of batik in Great Britain".

Leonora Carrington The Giantess (The Guardian of the Egg) 1947

“Angel of Death” – Tyra Kleen (1905)

Remedios Varo (1908-1963) — El Otro Reloj (The Other Clock) [gouache on cardboard, 1957]

Eihō Hirezaki, Ghost in Front of a Mosquito Net