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. ❤️

The fairy fella’s master stroke.
By Richard Dadd.

Can't believe this isn't taken. I'll have Botticelli's Birth of Venus thanks

Some interesting choices so far. I'm pretty predictable and classic. My choice is, "The Molo, Venice, from the Bacino di San Marco", by Canaletto.
www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5701805

Can't go wrong with a Canaletto, tbh.

I considered it - but I'd definitely need to actually have it in my house, and I just don't have the space.😂

Anything by Paula Rego but perhaps particularly Flying Children from her Peter Pan series.

I also really wanted and saved up for this wonderful print by Fiona Watson which makes me smile every morning: A Hundred Birds In A Competition Of Humourous Poetry

Albrecht Durer a great piece of turf just so relaxing but fantastic too also Vermeer's milkmaid
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Emin’s bed. I’ve seen it twice now in person and both times it evoked something new and felt different.

I love her.

For me it would be anything by Kawase Hasui.

Alone in the World by Josef Israels. Makes me well up every time I see it.

We get a dream house (and / or garden) for this, right?

It will take me a while to decide between a Rothko, a Hepworth, maybe an Ann Ancher
www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Anna-Ancher/807/Brøndum%27s-Annex.html

I have a poster of that up on the wall opposite the end of my bed, so I see it every day (and sing the Queen song to myself.) There's a Dadd exhibicominh up later this year.

I studied Picasso's Guernuca for AS level Spanish, and I made a trip to Madrid to see it in the Reina Sofia. I had a weird physical reaction to it, like I've not had with any other artwork. I think it's an amazing piece, but I absolutely wouldn't want to live with it!

That's so movingly sad. It reminds me of Van Gogh's 'At Eternity's Gate' (I think that's the title, which shows an old man with his head in his hands in absolute despair.

Beautiful paintings with enormous emotional power.

Now that one terrifies me! You can tell it was painted by a very sick man - I think he was in Bedlam Hospital at the time after killing his father.

I used to have a recurring nightmare as a child with tiny figures, all very unnaturally distinct and in focus, just like the ones in this painting.

Anything by klimt 😊

The Beguiling of Merlin by Edward Burne Jones. I've got nowhere to put it because it's huge and my house isn't, but it's one of my favourite paintings. I saw it 'on tour' about 30 years ago and fell in love with it. It lives at the Lady Lever gallery in Liverpool which I'd like to visit but it's awkward to get to from where I am (I don't drive).

Verity sculpture (Damien Hurst) if that’s not taken please. Such a powerful piece of art. The people of Ilfracombe might be a bit sad to see her go though!

That one would definitely be on my shortlist. There was a picture of it in a 1970s Puffin Annual that I had, in a piece about dreams, and I used to gaze at it for hours.

Years later when a friend played me Queen II I was thrilled to recognise all the people from the painting popping up in the song of the same name 😃

I was going to pick The Lady of Shalott (reminds me of my DD) but as you snapped it up I'll go for Miranda. So Beautiful.

Mine would be Rousseau's Tiger in a Tropical Storm. I just love looking at it. It is like it scratches a part of my brain that only Clean Bandit's song Rather Be can scratch in a similar way. It's a bit out of my price and size range.

There she is!

Saudade by Almeida Junior

Beautiful isn’t it? Have a look at some of his other paintings, they’re always moon or lamp lit. So atmospheric

Where is the exhibition please?