If you could choose one artwork to own, what would it be?

[AllaMova]

With the following caveat, you must select one that you love, rather than for its worth etc.

At the moment, I would choose “Sketch of a Seated Cat” by Gwen John. ❤️

It would fit in the back room. the central panel will fit on the party wall with the two outside panels on either side at right angles. I'd have to remove the chimney breast but hey ho. It would be like living in a tapestry lined chamber.

I’d love to commission a vase by Grayson Perry.

I don't know how to add a photo but favourite painting is "A convent garden, Brittany" by William Leech. It's in the National Gallery in Dublin. I have a copy in my kitchen.
I just adore it. It's so calm and beautiful and I love the colours. I'm so happy to have the copy.

Sculpture - Apollo and Daphne by Bernini, or The Ecstasy of St Theresa.

Bronze - Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Cellini.

@gabsdot45 Sorry pic didn't attach. I'll try again.

Oh hell, I'll just post the link!

https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/highlights-collection/convent-garden-brittany-william-john-leech

Thank you

This would be my first choice but looks like im queueing!

Perhaps i could have Gaugin's 'when will you marry' or a reclining Moore?

If I could have anything though, It would have to be the two oil paintings of guardian angels my Grandad promised me. I don't think they were worth anything and have no clue who painted them, but he"s the only grandparent I really knew at all and they would remind me of him. I had a difficult and fractured childhood and never found out what happened to them.

Klimt-Mother and child

You beat me to it!! 😊

I am absolutely living this thread 🥰 It’s got me thinking hard!!!

Danaë by Gustav Klimt and Franz Marc's Yellow Cow.

If I really had to choose just one it would be the Klimt, because YC wouldn't fit on any of my walls 😀

Hard to choose! I think a Duncan Grant or a Kathe Kollwitz self-portrait (her pictures of women in war are too powerful) would fit very nicely.

I have a lot of original art in my home, but all by unknowns and a lot of it not great quality! But my favourite is an enormous oil painting of my great great grandmother, which she rolled up and took into hiding with her in Berlin during the war. Sadly she didnt come back to us but the painting did, and I treasure it.

I also love a piece of sculpture that I won in a raffle! When I bought the ticket I told the woman, Im only entering to win that sculpture" and I did! It's like a very abstract bottom, very chunky and polished (and perfect for clocking a burglar). I was so thrilled I wrote a fan letter to the artist, a woman who lives locally. She was very kind and invited me to come and see her work, but I was too embarrassed because I couldn't afford to buy anything. I wish I'd gone now!

Oh a Dora Carrington would be wonderful. Have you ever read that novel she wrote about old women, think it was called the Hearing Trumpet or similar?

You’re thinking of Leonora Carrington. Dora Carrington was a semi-member of the Bloomsbury Group and painted.

Starry night by Van Gogh. I love most of his work.

I also love a painting I remember doing at school. We all had to paint it, and all I can remember is that it was a bridge over some kind of water. I thought it was beautiful, but have never found out the name of it.

I have never seen that painting before but it is exactly like my beautiful cat Jezabelle 🧡 I’d love to have that painting too!

I prefer "The Kiss", so you can have "The Scream".

Of course I am. What a numpty! Thanks for putting me right. Ill take either Dora or Leonora!

Turner's Slaveship or Whisteljacket by Stubbs. I 'm also in awe of the Execution of Lady Jane Grey but I'm not sure I'd want it in my house

I've loved The Avenger at Tate Modern since the first time I saw it. Also Hopper's Morning sun and the much quoted Carnation, Lily, lily, rose or the Two cats by Frantz Marc...

https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=olivier%20raaab&_sp=72dc8670-9388-4e88-84a6-4fb5ee477933&sr=1#id=E2E9E3A25FEF17AC75A7E285B14FD139D65D87D0
Sunlight in a Blue Room by Olivier Raab

Botticelli’s Primavera for me

I thought you had to pay to get into the museum and then the ticket covered everything in it.
Anyway, it’s a big show, and it’s very much worth the price.

A Market in the Minho by Sonia Delaunay. I’ve loved her for years.
https://www.wikiart.org/en/sonia-delaunay/market-at-minho

I'm glad Van Gogh was mentioned. I love his work. We went to where he and Theo are buried a few years ago. It's surrounded by fields and I felt really emotional thinking about him painting the crows over the wheatfield when his mental health was in serious decline.