Piece together a king! 👑 Rest In Pieces' 1000-piece Basquiat jigsaw puzzle brings Julius Caesar on Gold, 1981, to your table: a skeletal crowned warrior, sword raised, blazing on gold. A bold gift for art lovers and puzzlers alike. 🧩 #Basquiat #JigsawPuzzle www.restinpieces.co.uk/products/100...

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🌲 Hush, the river is speaking. Carleton Watkins hauled giant glass plates and a travelling darkroom into the Oregon wilderness to capture this misty view of the Columbia. Wet collodion, no enlarging, no room for error. 📷 #ArtHistory #Photography

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Egon Schiele’s Kneeling Female in Orange-Red Dress (1910). 🧡 His sister Gertrude is coiled into crystalline planes of colour, while one unflinching eye stares right at us. 👁️ Spot the mystery pencil arc from hem to hand? Pure tension, tangerine and attitude 🍊🔥 #ArtHistory #EgonSchiele

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🌊⭐ A giant starfish, strung up on a sunlit beach? Edward Wadsworth’s North Sea (1927) is pure surreal precision. The Vorticist who oversaw Dazzle camouflage on 2,000+ WWI ships swapped oil for egg tempera, hence those crisp, glowing edges. 🚢🎨 #ArtHistory #BritishArt #Surrealism

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🍁 Autumn, framed! Hiroshige’s Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine and Lined Bridge peers through a forked trunk, perhaps a nod to Mama’s lost giant tree. The fiery leaves were once brighter orange, darkened with age. Van Gogh owned this print! 🎨 #Hiroshige #Ukiyoe

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