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 Execution of Lady Jane Grey

A Study, in March by John William Inchbold.

Holbien's Christina of Denmark. The painting of the black velvet and the fur are incredible and show his incredible talent & patience. Fell deeply in love when I saw it at the National Gallery years ago and periodically go back and reassure myself it's still stunning.

Me too! I really love that painting.

Daphne, by Caroline Walker. I’m obsessed with her paintings at the moment, and this one looks just like our DC and our sitting room when he was a toddler.

We bought a signed, limited edition Lowry print years ago and joked We need him to die now to increase its value! He obliged, a couple of days later, I've always felt very guilty!

Its a sculpture, but id have Lucifer - La genie du mal. It'd have to go in my garden i think, but its absolutely beautiful 😍

I wake each morning to a huge Georgia O'Keeffe print that we bought at the G O'K museum in Santa Fe, it cost far more to have it framed back in the UK than we'd paid for it.

It's a gruesome one, but Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi.
The artist went through so much and the painting is just so full of anger, revenge and triumph. What a woman.

I love Zinaida Serebriakova’s ‘At the Dressing-Table. Self-Portrait’. I love the confidence of her stance, the tone and it just looks so contemporary.

Oh this painting is devastating, it absolutely takes my breath away every time I see it! The scale is extraordinary.

I would like the Little Mermaid, there's a table in the hall on which it would look beautiful. When we were in Copenhagen we walked up and down the quay looking for it, eventually we went over to see what a group were looking at and it was she, so much smaller than we expected!

This portrait by Paul Signac: it means a lot to me personally and I love how disco it looks even though it is from the 1890s:

https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/felix-feneon-moma/

https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/works/empire-of-light/

I have that on my fridge!

One of the stripe paintings by my namesake, Bridget Riley. Obviously I would also need the enormous house to fit it in.

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy. David Hockney circa 1971

This Cezanne is in the National Museum of Wales. It is my very favourite painting.

When I was at university, there was an art collection you could pick from to have in your room for a year, then take it back and have something else the next year. Wouldn’t it be brilliant if the National Gallery and Tate and everywhere else worked like this? They have tons of stuff with no room to display it all, so there’d still be plenty in the galleries.

Do you not think it would give you a headache? I love BR, but I remember chatting to one of the room guards at her exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery and he said he’d learned to mostly not let his eyes dwell on the paintings for too long or it gave him vertigo! (I think I’d been feeling slightly woozy after an hour, which is why I asked…)

I’m happy with my little Jenny Bloomfield collection

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. A diaphanous veil in marble - an absolute masterpiece 🙏🏻

Knife Angel
Stunning work.

Boulevard Montmatre at night by Pissarro. I just love it. I could look at it for hours.

The Fighting Temeraire by Turner.

No real reason other than I find it so atmospheric.