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. ❤️

Christ of Saint John of the Cross - Dali

Sleeping Cat by Hugh Adam Crawford. Saw a reproduction in Edinburgh’s New Club and fell in love with it.

I shall put my halo👼on and say none because I'd rather they all stay in public galleries so everyone can still enjoy them. Maybe a very high quality full size print of "The Morning Walk". I always found it very calming to look at.

Hi, i haven't rtft, so apologies if already been mentioned. I absolutely love Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of The Cross, and Avril Paton"s Windows In The West. I

Excellent name, btw. One of my favourite Heyers.

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck.

Whistlejacket by Stubbs

Mine too!

I love this one too! Also anything my Atkinson Grimshaw, I have a print of one of his works on my bedroom wall.

Some of my favourites have already been spoken for, and some are favourites but too sad to look at every day at home. So right now I’m torn between Caillebotte’s ‘Les raboteurs de parquet’ in the musée d’Orsay, and the Van Gogh mulberry tree which is in a gallery I’ve forgotten in California. It doesn’t look like anything much as a reproduction but in real life the impasto paint leaves positively twist in the wind in front of you.

One of Annie Ovenden's murmuration series, or a Paul Nash.

Ooh, some cracking works already ‘spoken for’. I adore Goya and Velazquez. I’d go for one of Goya’s black paintings if I could - disturbing but awesome.

Particular favourite

I cannot pick one. I would have:

Guernica by Picasso

Skull with Burning Cigarette by Van Gogh

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Anguish by Albrecht

Old Man's Death by László Mednyánszky

Ooh, that’s a harrowing one, but I love it too, if love is the word! Actually saw it in the flesh a few years ago.

The Last of England (Ford Madox Brown).

My mum's favourite (she used to go and look at it during numerous lunchtime visits to Birmingham Art Gallery whilst working in the city in the 50s and 60s.It's my favourite too.

which is this? I love it

@biscuitcollective Sorry, that’s Goya’s El Perro. It’s actually a really sad painting as the dog is drowning. I just find it fascinating and beautiful.

Teal Lake, by Andy Russell. I can gaze at it for hours.

drowning? 😭 oh yes I just googled it, its really sad.

Mind you, compared to his other paintings during that period of time this one is virtually joyous 😳

I couldn’t look at that dog’s face every day. Too sad for me knowing the story behind it.

@WashableVelvet - I really like Les raboteurs de parquet too. I first saw it when I was 18 and it made a big impression. I’ve seen it several times since and it hasn’t diminished.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
by Georges Seurat.

pointillism fascinates me.

Exactly the same for me too! I absolutely adore this painting. I saw it in the flesh when I was studying art aged 16. I was utterly mesmerised by it. It was like having a religious experience. I bought a poster of it after that and had it on the wall for years. The subject matter and style is a bit pedestrian, possibly even a bit twee, but there is something about the warm peachy-gold light coming from those lanterns that casts a soft glow over everything else near them, with the inky dusk in the background which is just magical. To me it always feels very grounding, familiar and safe but also at the same time has a very ethereal and other worldly quality to it.

You know how, when you see an amazing sunset or sunrise and you take a photo, but somehow it can never really capture its true beauty and you are forced yet again to conclude that 'you had to be there'? Well this painting totally captures how it would have felt to be there. I can't explain it but it just feels so real and authentic and yet it's an impressionist painting, not a realist one. That just astonishes me.

Yes, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is the kind of painting that doesn't transfer well to all the merchandise the Tate sells. It looks twee. In person it's completely different.
I read that he went out for that period of dusk every evening for a long time to really capture the light.