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He turned a square canvas onto its corner to hang like a diamond — not a one-off trick, he kept coming back to the format for years.

Klimt died suddenly in 1918 and left this one unfinished in his studio — patterns filled in around the baby, the rest still just sketched lines.

She died young, in 1924, not long after she'd started moving from paintings like this one into textile and stage design.

This was one of a run of nudes his dealer had him churn out fast to sell — and when they went on show in Paris, police shut the exhibition down on opening day for indecency.

Delaunay painted the Eiffel Tower more than two dozen times, splitting it into fragments and colour rather than showing it whole.

By 1913 Kandinsky had mostly let go of recognizable scenes, chasing what he called the "inner sound" of color instead.

This came from a string of coastal landscapes painted while recovering from a breakdown — a much quieter stretch than the work he's known for.

Malevich showed these without frames and wouldn't say which way up they went — he thought a fixed top and bottom was just another assumption people had gotten used to calling natural.

Milles spent a big chunk of his career teaching sculpture in Michigan, so a lot of his best-known fountains are actually in the US, not here.

He painted so many of these letter-rack scenes that forgers later scrubbed off his signature and added a rival's, since that name sold better.

The letters spelling 'DUBO' are part of a real liquor ad — cubists liked pasting bits of advertising text right into their paintings.

He never left France — this jungle came from botanical gardens and picture books, not anywhere he'd actually set foot.

He stopped showing his paintings publicly for almost twenty years after becoming famous, so a lot of work like this only came out once he'd died.

For decades he mostly made dark, unsettling charcoal prints — this bright, ordinary bouquet came from a total swing late in his career.

He moved to Paris partly to get away from how Black artists got treated back home, and this moody, almost colorless lighting became the thing he was known for there.