Stephen Farthing's "1001 paintings you must see before you die" (in progress)

I think this list is very interesting, and I’m looking forward to see the second half.

Bernard Strigel – Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1510-20)

Lucas Cranach the Elder – Adam and Eve (c. 1530)

Jakob Seisenegger – Portrait of Archduchess Eleonora of Mantua (c. 1536)

Frans Hals – A boy with a Violin (1625-1630)

Salomon van Ruysdael – Wooded River Landscape (1640-1650)

Sir Peter Lely – Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1665-1667)

Jean-Siméon Chardin – Girl with Shuttlecock (1740)

Niels Rode – Portrait of a Child Holding a Rattle (1771)

Maruyama Okyo – Sketches of a Black and White Rabbit (c. 1770-90)

Unknown – Tantric Diagram of the Right Foot (1800)

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard – Nightmare (1800)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse – Two Leopards Playing (1808)

Franz Seraph Stirnbrand – Portrait of a Young Woman (1827)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse – Miss Cazenove on a Grey Hunter (1820-30)

Ferdinand Richardt – Frederiksborg Castle (1848)

José Agustín Arrieta – The Gypsy Boy and Girl (c. 1850)

Paul Kane – The Buffalo Hunt (c. 1850)

Wilhelm Marstrand – Study of a Boy with Pet Dog (1860)

Heinrich Hansen – Frederiksborg Castle, the Departure of the Royal Falcon Hunt (1861)

Winslow Homer – Three Boys in a Dory (1873)

Heinrich Hansen – Interior of the Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen (c. 1870-80)

Karl von Blaas – Kaiser Franz Josef I of Austria in Uniform (c. 1885)

Vincent van Gogh – The Olive Pickers, Saint-Rémy, 1889

Fritz Thaulow – Snow-covered Buildings by a River (1890)

Claude Monet – Haystack at Sunset, Frosty Weather (1891)

Alfred Sisley – The Moret Bridge in the Sun (1892)

Franz Dvorak – Painting the Birds (1885-1895)

Albert Anker – Still Life with Wine and Chestnuts (1897)

Camille Pissarro – Boulevard Montmartre (1897)

Christian Bang – The Studio of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1899)

Frida Kahlo – Memory (1937)

Frida Kahlo – The Dream (1932)

Seascape – Cândido Portinari (1940)

Head of Woman – Jesús Guerrero Galván (1940)

The Flower Seller – Diego Rivera (1942)

Portrait of Dora Maar – Pablo Picasso (1941)

Sun, Moon, Stars – Meret Oppenheim (?)

The Singing Bird – Rufino Tamayo (1943)

Baby Giant – Leonora Carrington (1947)

The Abandoned Mine – Sidney Nolan (1948)

Volcán Iztaccíhuatl – Dr. Atl (1958)

Biblical Landscape – Reuven Rubin (1950)

Aline and Valcour – Man Ray (1950)

Composition with Figures – Corneille (1971)

Two Women on a Veranda – Emiliano di Cavalcanti (1951)

Ebony and Blue – Ceri Richards (1951)

The Guest Room – Dorothea Tanning (1952)

Presence of the Past – Günther Gerzso (1953)

Huelga – David Alfaro Siquieros (1957)

Diego – Alberto Giacometti (1953)

Ned Kelly – Sir Sidney Nolan (?)

Young Woman in White – Celia Calderón (1955)

Paysage – Sayed Haider Raza (1958)

Solvejg – Asger Jorn (1959)

Abstract Painting Diptych – Ad Reinhardt (1959)

The Prancing Horse – M.F. Husain (1950-1960)

Untitled – Mark Rothko (1949)

200 Soup Cans – Andy Warhol (1962)

Untitled – Jean-Paul Riopelle (1952)

Lock – Robert Rauschenberg (1952)

The King of the Heart – Jean Dubuffet (1964)

Homage to the Square: Joy – Josef Albers (1962)

Two Boys in the Pool, Hollywood – David Hockney (1965)

Woman Reading – Will Barnet (1970)

Peinture aux Formes Indéfinies – Daniel Buren (1966)

SS Amsterdam in Front of Rotterdam – Malcolm Morley (1966)

Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas – Ed Ruscha (1966)

A Bigger Splash – David Hockney (1967)

Untitled – Mark Rothko (1968)

Mornington Crescent, Winter – Frank Auerbach (1967-69)

Melon – Tarsila do Amaral (?)

Our Grandparents – Jorge González Camarena (1960-1970)

Art – Edward Ruscha (?)

Travels of an Old Tingari Man – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (1970)

The Window – Francisco Zúñiga (1971)

E VIII (Towards Disappearance) SFP71-14 – Sam Francis (1971)

The Chrysanthemum – Claudio Bravo (1974)

American Girl and Doll – Carel Weight (1975)

Gears – James Rosenquis (1977)

Portrait of a Youth – Mohammad Reza Irani (1979)

Large Shower – Rainer Fetting (1980)

View of Madrid from Torres Blancas – Antonio López García (1976-1982)

Donut Revenge – Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982)

The School at Rome – Stephen Farthing (?)

Table Manners – Graham Crowley (1985)

Sapling Forest, Cherry Plum Blossom – Clifton Pugh (1984)

Crucifixion 3.85 – Antonio Saura (1985)

If You’re Born to Be Hanged Then You Will Never Be Drowned – Sandro Chia (1986-1987)

1956 – Magdolna Ban (1988)

Greenfield – Susan Rothenberg (1980)

Northwest Territory – Gerrit Greve (1990)

Untitled – Jenny Saville

Sailing Against the Current – Miquel Barceló (1991)

The Holy Virgin Mary – Chris Ofili (1999)

Self Portrait – Chuck Close (2000)

Pasiphaë and the Bull – Ansel Krut (1998)

Break Domination – Sigmar Polke (1998)

‘Is it a Tart, or Is it Ayers Rock?’ – Euan Uglow (1998)

To Jasper Johns – Emiliano Gironella Parra (2003)

The Parade – John Alexander (2006)Bernard Strigel – Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (1510-20)

Lucas Cranach the Elder – Adam and Eve (c. 1530)

Jakob Seisenegger – Portrait of Archduchess Eleonora of Mantua (c. 1536)

Frans Hals – A boy with a Violin (1625-1630)

Salomon van Ruysdael – Wooded River Landscape (1640-1650)

Sir Peter Lely – Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as St. Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1665-1667)

Jean-Siméon Chardin – Girl with Shuttlecock (1740)

Niels Rode – Portrait of a Child Holding a Rattle (1771)

Maruyama Okyo – Sketches of a Black and White Rabbit (c. 1770-90)

Unknown – Tantric Diagram of the Right Foot (1800)

Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard – Nightmare (1800)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse – Two Leopards Playing (1808)

Franz Seraph Stirnbrand – Portrait of a Young Woman (1827)

Jacques-Laurent Agasse – Miss Cazenove on a Grey Hunter (1820-30)

Ferdinand Richardt – Frederiksborg Castle (1848)

José Agustín Arrieta – The Gypsy Boy and Girl (c. 1850)

Paul Kane – The Buffalo Hunt (c. 1850)

Wilhelm Marstrand – Study of a Boy with Pet Dog (1860)

Heinrich Hansen – Frederiksborg Castle, the Departure of the Royal Falcon Hunt (1861)

Winslow Homer – Three Boys in a Dory (1873)

Heinrich Hansen – Interior of the Rosenborg Palace, Copenhagen (c. 1870-80)

Karl von Blaas – Kaiser Franz Josef I of Austria in Uniform (c. 1885)

Vincent van Gogh – The Olive Pickers, Saint-Rémy, 1889

Fritz Thaulow – Snow-covered Buildings by a River (1890)

Claude Monet – Haystack at Sunset, Frosty Weather (1891)

Alfred Sisley – The Moret Bridge in the Sun (1892)

Franz Dvorak – Painting the Birds (1885-1895)

Albert Anker – Still Life with Wine and Chestnuts (1897)

Camille Pissarro – Boulevard Montmartre (1897)

Christian Bang – The Studio of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1899)

Frida Kahlo – Memory (1937)

Frida Kahlo – The Dream (1932)

Seascape – Cândido Portinari (1940)

Head of Woman – Jesús Guerrero Galván (1940)

The Flower Seller – Diego Rivera (1942)

Portrait of Dora Maar – Pablo Picasso (1941)

Sun, Moon, Stars – Meret Oppenheim (?)

The Singing Bird – Rufino Tamayo (1943)

Baby Giant – Leonora Carrington (1947)

The Abandoned Mine – Sidney Nolan (1948)

Volcán Iztaccíhuatl – Dr. Atl (1958)

Biblical Landscape – Reuven Rubin (1950)

Aline and Valcour – Man Ray (1950)

Composition with Figures – Corneille (1971)

Two Women on a Veranda – Emiliano di Cavalcanti (1951)

Ebony and Blue – Ceri Richards (1951)

The Guest Room – Dorothea Tanning (1952)

Presence of the Past – Günther Gerzso (1953)

Huelga – David Alfaro Siquieros (1957)

Diego – Alberto Giacometti (1953)

Ned Kelly – Sir Sidney Nolan (?)

Young Woman in White – Celia Calderón (1955)

Paysage – Sayed Haider Raza (1958)

Solvejg – Asger Jorn (1959)

Abstract Painting Diptych – Ad Reinhardt (1959)

The Prancing Horse – M.F. Husain (1950-1960)

Untitled – Mark Rothko (1949)

200 Soup Cans – Andy Warhol (1962)

Untitled – Jean-Paul Riopelle (1952)

Lock – Robert Rauschenberg (1952)

The King of the Heart – Jean Dubuffet (1964)

Homage to the Square: Joy – Josef Albers (1962)

Two Boys in the Pool, Hollywood – David Hockney (1965)

Woman Reading – Will Barnet (1970)

Peinture aux Formes Indéfinies – Daniel Buren (1966)

SS Amsterdam in Front of Rotterdam – Malcolm Morley (1966)

Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas – Ed Ruscha (1966)

A Bigger Splash – David Hockney (1967)

Untitled – Mark Rothko (1968)

Mornington Crescent, Winter – Frank Auerbach (1967-69)

Melon – Tarsila do Amaral (?)

Our Grandparents – Jorge González Camarena (1960-1970)

Art – Edward Ruscha (?)

Travels of an Old Tingari Man – Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (1970)

The Window – Francisco Zúñiga (1971)

E VIII (Towards Disappearance) SFP71-14 – Sam Francis (1971)

The Chrysanthemum – Claudio Bravo (1974)

American Girl and Doll – Carel Weight (1975)

Gears – James Rosenquis (1977)

Portrait of a Youth – Mohammad Reza Irani (1979)

Large Shower – Rainer Fetting (1980)

View of Madrid from Torres Blancas – Antonio López García (1976-1982)

Donut Revenge – Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982)

The School at Rome – Stephen Farthing (?)

Table Manners – Graham Crowley (1985)

Sapling Forest, Cherry Plum Blossom – Clifton Pugh (1984)

Crucifixion 3.85 – Antonio Saura (1985)

If You’re Born to Be Hanged Then You Will Never Be Drowned – Sandro Chia (1986-1987)

1956 – Magdolna Ban (1988)

Greenfield – Susan Rothenberg (1980)

Northwest Territory – Gerrit Greve (1990)

Untitled – Jenny Saville

Sailing Against the Current – Miquel Barceló (1991)

The Holy Virgin Mary – Chris Ofili (1999)

Self Portrait – Chuck Close (2000)

Pasiphaë and the Bull – Ansel Krut (1998)

Break Domination – Sigmar Polke (1998)

‘Is it a Tart, or Is it Ayers Rock?’ – Euan Uglow (1998)

To Jasper Johns – Emiliano Gironella Parra (2003)

The Parade – John Alexander (2006)