Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery

Diego Rivera

Ma Yuan: Watching Wild Geese

While Europe was in a relative “dark age” long before the Renaissance, Song dynasty China was producing a wealth of great paintings.

Hsu Dao Ning: Heavy Snow on Guan Mountain

Lin Chun

Qu Ding: Summer Mountains

An Arab Interior

Temple at Philae

Yeah, that’s great- what a magnificent gallery has been unearthed.

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Helen Frankenthaler

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Carel Weight: The Barn

Weight’s lanes, alleys, back gardens etc aren’t the sexiest subjects but they have a very English atmosphere that’s often quite enigmatic.

Weight: The Passer-by

David Hockney: Woldgate Woods

Carlos Paez Vilaro

Klimt

Beardsley

Leon Bakst

Kate Greenaway

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a couple of Welsh artists

Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Tretower

Emrys Williams: Zebra, House and Mountain

Emrys Williams

some more Welsh artists

Richard Wilson: Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle

Thomas Jones: Landscape with Dido and Aeneas

Augustus John: Llyn Treweryn

Kyffin Williams: White Sea, Trearddur

Some more Welsh artists

Cedric Morris: Belle of Bloomsbury

William Wilkins: Avenue in Early Spring

Margaret Lindsay Williams

After this devilishly naughty painting (1917) in her twenties, Margaret Lindsay Williams went on to paint British royalty and US politicians

Alfred Janes: The Queue

Alfred Janes was a member of the “Kardomah gang” of poets, musicians and artists, including Dylan Thomas, who frequented Swansea’s Kardomah café in the 1930s.