One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order.
1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi
1/100
1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi
1/100
1901: Hay Harvest at Éragny by Paul Cezanne
2/100
2/100
1902: Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi by Henri Matisse
3/100
3/100
1903: Polish Hamlet (Portrait of Alexander Wielopolski) by Jacek Malczewski
4/100
4/100
1904: Portrait of Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev by Ilya Repin
5/100
5/100
1905: Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund Evelyn de Morgan
6/100
6/100
1906: Coucher de Soleil No. 1 by Jean Metzinger
7/100
7/100
1907: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
8/100
8/100
1908: The Grand Canal by Claude Monet
9/100
9/100
1909: At the Dressing-Table (Self-Portrait) by Zinaida Serebriakova
10/100
10/100
1910: The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni
11/100
11/100
1911: Nostalgia of the Infinite by Giorgio de Chirico
12/100
12/100
1912: Man on a Balcony by Albert Gleizes
13/100
13/100
1913: Self-Portrait with Nude by Laura Knight
14/100
14/100
1914: Bride of the Wind by Oskar Kokoschka
15/100
15/100
1915: The Kensingtons at Laventie by Eric Kennington
16/100
16/100
1916: Suprematist Composition by Kasimir Malevich
17/100
17/100
1917: The Paths of Glory by CRW Nevinson
18/100
18/100
1918: Over the Top by John Nash
19/100
19/100
1919: L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp
20/100
20/100
1920: City of Workers by Hans Baluschek
21/100
21/100
1921: The Elephant Celebes by Max Ernst
22/100
22/100
1922: Twittering Machines by Paul Klee
23/100
23/100
1923: The Blue Room by Suzanne Valadon
24/100
24/100
1924: Dempsey and Firpo by George Bellows
25/100
25/100
1925: House by the Railroad by Edward Hopper
26/100
26/100
1926: Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress by Frida Kahlo
27/100
27/100
1927: Menin Gate at Midnight by Will Longstaff
28/100
28/100
1928: Autoportrait (Tarama in a Green Bughatti) by Tamara de Lempicka
29/100
29/100
1929: La Fuensanta by Julio Romero de Torres
30/100
30/100
1930: American Gothic by Grant Wood
31/100
31/100
1931: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
32/100
32/100
1932: The Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera
33/100
33/100
1933: The Human Condition by Rene Magritte
34/100
34/100
1934: Stranded Brig by Edwin Dickinson
35/100
35/100
1935: Hand with a Reflecting Sphere by MC Escher
36/100
36/100
1936: Jimson Weed by Georgia O'Keefe
37/100
37/100
1937: Guernica by Pablo Picasso
38/100
38/100
1938: Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin by Aleksandr Gerasimov
39/100
39/100
1939: Haytime in the Cotswolds by James Bateman
40/100
40/100
1940: Midnight Sun by Eric Ravilious
41/100
41/100
1941: Totes Meer by Paul Nash
42/100
42/100
1942: A Balloon Site, Coventry by Laura Knight
43/100
43/100
1943: Going to Work by LS Lowry
44/100
44/100
1944: Victory Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
45/100
45/100
1945: Christmas Tree by Hyman Bloom
46/100
46/100
1946: Glow of Hope by SL Haldankar
47/100
47/100
1947: Sofala by Russell Drysdale
48/100
48/100
1948: Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth
49/100
49/100
1949: Head VI by Francis Bacon
50/100
50/100
1950: One Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock
51/100
51/100
1951: Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Barnett Newman
52/100
52/100
1952: The Green Lady by Vladimir Tretchikoff
53/100
53/100
1953: The Founding Ceremony of the Nation by Dong Xiwen
54/100
54/100
1954: Breaking Home Ties by Norman Rockwell
55/100
55/100
1955: The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
56/100
56/100
1956: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II by Annigoni
57/100
57/100
1957: The Queuing Continues by Andrzej Wroblewski
58/100
58/100
1958: Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
59/100
59/100
1959: Die Fahne Hoch! by Frank Stella
60/100
60/100
1960: Thermal by Peter Lanyon
61/100
61/100
1961: To You, Humanity by Tahir Salahov
62/100
62/100
1962: Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
63/100
63/100
1963: The Big Night Down the Drain by Georg Baselitz
64/100
64/100
1964: Oh, Jeff... I love you you... but... by Roy Lichtenstein
65/100
65/100
1965: Spatial Concept "Waiting" by Lucio Fontana
66/100
66/100
1966: Quince and Teapot by Victor Teterin
67/100
67/100
1967: Secret Painting by Mel Ramsden
68/100
68/100
1968: Young Gardeners by Malle Leis
69/100
69/100
1969: Seascape (Cloudy) by Gerhard Richter
70/100
70/100
1970: Untitled (Black on Grey) by Mark Rothko
71/100
71/100
1971: The Destroyer by Frank Fazetta
72/100
72/100
1972: Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by David Hockney
73/100
73/100
1973: The Badminton Game by David Inshaw
74/100
74/100
1974: Library Burning by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
75/100
75/100
1975: Return from the Front by Borisoglebsky
76/100
76/100
1976: The Evening of Ashura by Mahmoud Farshchian
77/100
77/100
1977: Warlugulong by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
78/100
78/100
1978: The Murder of Andreas Baader by Odd Nerdrum
79/100
79/100
1979: Malaya Sadovaya Street by Arseny Semionov
80/100
80/100
1980: El Abrazo by Jorge González Camarena
81/100
81/100
1981: Bird on Money by Jean-Michel Basquiat
82/100
82/100
1982: Sax A.D. 832 by Michael Andrews
83/100
83/100
1983: The Student of Prague by Julian Schnabel
84/100
84/100
1984: Gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown by Don Bachardy
85/100
85/100
1985: And the Saved World Remembers by Mai Dantsig
86/100
86/100
1986: The Master's Rhythm by Nabil Kanso
87/100
87/100
1987: Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany by Werner Tubke
88/100
88/100
1988: Apocalypse Now by Christopher Wool
89/100
89/100
1989: Untitled by Jack Goldstein
90/100
90/100
1990: September Defeat by Tadeusz Kantor
91/100
91/100
1991: Diptych by Anatol Stepanenko
92/100
92/100
1992: Naked Man, Back View by Lucian Freud
93/100
93/100
1993: The Great Bear by Simon Patterson
94/100
94/100
1994: Blotter by Peter Doig
95/100
95/100
1995: Execution by Yue Minjun
96/100
96/100
1996: The Holy Virgin Mary by Chris Ofili
97/100
97/100
1997: Kali by Tyeb Mehta
98/100
98/100
1998: Untitled by Ellen Gallagher
99/100
99/100
1999: Greek Island Landscape by King Charles III
100/100
100/100
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