I Saw Myself as a Donkey

Warning! Enter at your own risk. Do not touch, do not feed, no smoking, no photographs, no dogs, thank you., Maurizio Cattelan, 1994.
(donkey, crystal chandelier, dimensions variable)

'My first idea was too expensive. My second idea was not possible to realize. So I saw myself as a donkey.'

Love Lasts Forever

Love Lasts Forever, Maurizio Cattelan, 1999. (image from here)

The first, they said, should be sweet like love; the second bitter, like life; and the third soft, like death.

The first, they said, should be sweet like love; the second bitter, like life; and the third soft, like death, Maurizio Cattelan, 1998

Untitled (On the Sixth Day)

Untitled, from On the Sixth Day, Alessandra Sanguinetti, 1996-2004

A Little Death

A Little Death, Sam Taylor-Wood, 2002

Dead Hare

Still Life with Dead Hare and Partridges, Dirk Valkenburg, 1717

Wombat and Watermelon

Wombat and Watermelon, Marian Drew, 2006

Still Life (On the Sixth Day)

Still Life, from the series On the Sixth Day, Alessandra Sanguinetti, 2006

Still Life with Dead Birds

Still Life with Dead Birds, Christoffel van den Berghe, 1624

The Dog and the Wolf

Untitled #24 (From the series: The Dog and the Wolf), Laura Letinsky, 2009

Vanitas Still Life

Vanitas Still Life, Gerrit van Vught, c. 1658-97 (oil on panel, 9,3 x 12 cm)

Vanitas

Vanitas, Jan Davidszoon de Heem, ca. 1628

The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame

The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour, ca 1638-1640 (oil on canvas, 117 x 92 cm)

Schädel

Stilleben (Schädel) Atlas sheet 401, Gerhard Richter, 1983

Spiral Staircase

A fine carpenter's model for a spiral staircase formed of walnut; combined with a very small silver half-figure of a triton, in Mannerist style; a small ivory
human skull; and a small flask formed from the tail of a shellfish. 19th century.

Homage to Puvis de Chavannes

Homage to Puvis de Chavannes, Duane Michals

Owl Perched on a Crowned Skull

Owl perched on a crowned skull, Massat brothers after Jean-Baptiste Clésinger, Paris, ca 1865 (silver on porphyr base 9 cm high)

Memento Mori

'Memento Mori', ivory skeleton in an ebonized wood coffin. South German, possibly Augsburg, 17th century.

Father Time

Ivory figure of Father Time probably German, 17th century.

Three Skeletons of Blind Men Wrestling

Three skeletons of blind men, wrestling with each other. Ivory okimono, meiji period. Signed Kikutei Tomoyuki, Bunkyu 2 (1862)

Skeleton Contemplating Death

Skeleton Contemplating Death Signature: Jiro (Ichiro). Japanese, circa: 1900s' (ivory, 5 x 3.5 x 2.5cm)

Marble Skull

Marble skull, probably netherlandish 17th century.

Skull

Skull, Andy Warhol, n.d.
Skull, Andy Warhol, 1974 (synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas, 38.1 x 48.3 cm)
Skull, Andy Warhol, 1976 (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 38 x 48 cm)

Study of a Human Skull

Study of a Human Skull, Albrecht Dürer, 1521

Emblem of Death

Emblem of Death, Pieter Steenwijck, 1635-1640 (oil on wood, 36 x 46 cm)

Untitled (Skull)

Untitled [Skull], Walker Evans, June 30, 1974

Light Traces

[Light Traces], Walker Evans, 1973-74

Louise Merriman

Louise Merriman, New Haven, Connecticut, Walker Evans, 1973-74

Unidentifiable Blurred and Abstract Forms

[Unidentifiable Blurred and Abstract Forms], Walker Evans, 1973-74

At the Beach, 1952

Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner and unidentified child at the beach, unidentified photographer, ca. 1952

Helen Frankenthaler, 1975

Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Liberman, 1975

Helen Frankenthaler, 1969

Helen Frankenthaler, New York, 1969, Ernst Haas

Painter Helen Frankenthaler Uses Slippered Feet to Create an Abstract Expressionist Painting, 1957

USA. New York City. 1957. Painter Helen Frankenthaler uses slippered feet to create an Abstract Expressionist painting. /
USA. New York City. 1957. Painter Helen Frankenthaler works on an Abstract Expressionist painting in her studio., Burt Glinn.

Helen Frankenthaler, 1956

Painter Helen Frankenthaler sitting amidst her art. Gordon Parks, 1956

Canyon

Canyon, Helen Frankenthaler, 1965 (acrylic on canvas, 111 x 132 cm)

Earliness

Earliness, Helen Frankenthaler, 1975 (oil on canvas 238 x 252 cm)