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. ❤️

Jan van Eyck 's Rolin Madonna. The detail is insane and so much hidden meaning, I’ve already stared at it for ages. I think I’d find it too painful to look at every day though.

I already own a few of my favourites, but I don’t they’d appeal to many people here.

Anything by Claude.

I came on to say this. I went to an exhibition of his works in Leeds late last year. Stunning.

Ive also got a soft sport for Holbeins Thomas More, just as im a history buff and love him.
Or any of the Swiming Pool ones by David Hockney.

Oh I love her work. There was a small exhibition at the Pallant Gallery in Chichester (perhaps still on). That painting is HUGE!

Dora Carrington’s pencil portrait of her brother Noel. Absolute artistry. Anyone else a big fan of Radio 4’s Moving Pictures? That voice!

This. I imported it from Turkey. Up close it's branches with twigs with leaf buds on.

Is this set up deliberately so the horse is jumping the paving slabs?!

Nausicca by Frederic Leighton. I have a print of it & it brings me immense joy!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaa_(Leighton)

Yes my husband did it as a joke before he widened the path!

Execution of Lady Jane Grey. A bit morbid but it is stunning when you see it in the National Gallery in real life. Never felt so affected by art as with this painting and that's with Sunflowers around the corner, if you can get past the cameras blocking your view.

I'd love the painting hanging over Tom and Barbara Good's mantlepiece. I could only find this rubbish photo of it. Does anyone know who it's by, and what it's called?

For sculpture I’d love Another Place by Gormly, but would be entirely crowded out of the house, plus they probably wouldn’t work so well in a terrace rather than Crosby Beach

Louise Bourgeois' Maman.

In my front garden.

I might take the Victory of Samothrace if no one has it

I feel like this about Guernica. As well as the sheer size of it, it would be too emotionally provocative to live with daily.

I love paintings and have collected originals for many years, all sizes, periods and themes - still lives, figuratives, architectural & street scenes, landscapes. Some have more challenging content than others but none are wrenchingly provocative. In another life, I'd have loved to have worked in the field. In this life, where I work in STEM, it's a lovely hobby.

I saw the most wonderfully odd little film by Gabriel Abrantes at the Contemporary Art Museum in Lisbon recently — the Winged Victory has the power to wake up the other artworks at night, and a classical statue of a gir, tired of people walking past her to the other artworks, escapes from the museum and goes on a street protest and gets broken.

That's a painting?!
Mine is Starry Night on the Rhone by Van Gogh.

The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Burton. The heartache! The drama!

That’s gorgeous. I hadn’t seen this one prior to this thread.

I LOVE her. Excellent choice

The (fictional) story behind it, it’s the last fleeting moment between two people desperately in forbidden love (he was her bodyguard ) before he’s killed by her brothers at the order of her father. He knew he was going to his death. I’m not normally a sap for such things but this hits me right in the feels !

Came on to request that one, we may need to share 😀

Van Gogh's "Roses". Simple, timeless and evocative of summer.

Fishermen at Sea by Turner

I live too far away from Chichester to go to it, or I might have realised that I’d need a bigger house too 🤣
there’s a programme on iPlayer about her:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002slvj