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  1. Thomas Struth, The Shimada Family, Yamaguchi, Japan 1986 1
  2. Henry Moore OM, CH, King and Queen 2
  3. Philip Guston, The Return 3
  4. Walter Richard Sickert, Study for 'Ennui' 4
  5. Jackson Pollock, Number 23 5
  6. Jackson Pollock, Yellow Islands 6
  7. Ellsworth Kelly, Broadway 7
  8. Sir Stanley Spencer, Swan Upping at Cookham 8
  9. Henri Matisse, The Snail 9
  10. David Hockney, The First Marriage (A Marriage of Styles I) 10
  11. Andreas Gursky, Parliament 11
  12. Wyndham Lewis, The Crowd 12
  13. Pablo Picasso, The Three Dancers 13
  14. Henry Fuseli, Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers 14
  15. Philip James De Loutherbourg, An Avalanche in the Alps 15
  16. Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman 16
  17. Jan Siberechts, Landscape with Rainbow, Henley–on–Thames 17
  18. David Bomberg, In the Hold 18
  19. Ben Nicholson OM, 1932 (Auberge de la Sole Dieppoise) 19
  20. Morris Louis, VAV 20
  21. James Seymour, A Kill at Ashdown Park 21
  22. Robert Rauschenberg, Almanac 22
  23. Richard Smith, Riverfall 23
  24. George Stubbs, Horse Attacked by a Lion 24
  25. David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy 25
  26. Arshile Gorky, Waterfall 26
  27. Francis Danby, The Deluge 27
  28. R.B. Kitaj, The Man of the Woods and the Cat of the Mountains 28
  29. Alberto Giacometti, Hour of the Traces 29
  30. Thomas Gainsborough, Giovanna Baccelli 30
  31. William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience 31
  32. George Stubbs, Haymakers 32
  33. George Stubbs, Reapers 33
  34. Kasimir Malevich, Dynamic Suprematism 34
  35. Marcus Gheeraerts II, Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee 35
  36. Max Beckmann, Carnival 36
  37. Sir Roland Penrose, The Last Voyage of Captain Cook 37
  38. Meredith Frampton, Marguerite Kelsey 38
  39. Sir George Clausen, Winter Work 39
  40. Joan Miró, Message from a Friend 40
  41. Peter Lanyon, Wreck 41
  42. Eileen Agar, Angel of Anarchy 42
  43. Hans Eworth, Portrait of an Unknown Lady 43
  44. Frank Auerbach, The Sitting Room 44
  45. Giorgio de Chirico, The Uncertainty of the Poet 45
  46. Bridget Riley, Hesitate 46
  47. Gilbert Soest, Portrait of a Gentleman with a Dog, Probably Sir Thomas Tipping 47
  48. René Magritte, The Annunciation 48
  49. John Constable, The Opening of Waterloo Bridge ('Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817') 49
  50. Pablo Picasso, Weeping Woman 50
  51. Allan Ramsay, Thomas, 2nd Baron Mansel of Margam with his Blackwood Half–Brothers and Sister 51
  52. Winifred Knights, The Deluge 52
  53. Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags 53
  54. Francis Picabia, Portrait of a Doctor 54
  55. Joseph Wright of Derby, Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples 55
  56. David Hockney, The Third Love Painting 56
  57. Joseph Wright of Derby, An Iron Forge 57
  58. Michael Andrews, Laughter Uluru (Ayers Rock), The Cathedral I 58
  59. Alberto Giacometti, Composition (Man and Woman) 59
  60. Patrick Heron, 10–11 July: 1992 60
  61. Thomas Gainsborough, Peter Darnell Muilman, Charles Crokatt and William Keable in a Landscape 61
  62. Shirazeh Houshiary, The Enclosure of Sanctity 62
  63. Richard Hamilton, Hommage à Chrysler Corp. 63
  64. Jan Siberechts, View of a House and its Estate in Belsize, Middlesex 64
  65. Germaine Richier, Hurricane Woman 65
  66. Walter Richard Sickert, Brighton Pierrots 66
  67. Ellsworth Kelly, Black Square with Blue 67
  68. William Blake, Satan Exulting over Eve 68
  69. Jean Fautrier, Head of a Hostage 69
  70. Richard Deacon, If The Shoe Fits 70
  71. Piet Mondrian, Sun, Church in Zeeland; Zoutelande Church Facade 71
  72. Sir Anthony Caro, The Soldier's Tale 72
  73. Hamish Fulton, Arkle Sutherland 73
  74. Sir Stanley Spencer, Zacharias and Elizabeth 74
  75. David Smith, Wagon II 75
  76. Rebecca Horn, Concert for Anarchy 76
  77. Joan Miró, Head of a Catalan Peasant 77
  78. Paul Nash, Flight of the Magnolia 78
  79. Piet Mondrian, Composition B (No.II) with Red 79
  80. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain 80
  81. Gary Hume, Water Painting 81
  82. John Constable, Fen Lane, East Bergholt 82
  83. Juan Muñoz, Towards the Corner 83
  84. Cy Twombly, from Quattro Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts), Quattro Stagioni: Autunno 84
  85. Luciano Fabro, The Sun 85
  86. Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Stairs) 86
  87. Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew 87
  88. Georges Braque, The Billiard Table 88
  89. Augustus John OM, Dorelia Standing before a Fence 89
  90. Gilbert & George, Named 90
  91. Richard Parkes Bonington, French Coast with Fishermen 91
  92. Chris Ofili, The Upper Room 92
  93. Francis Picabia, Otaïti 93
  94. Mary Martin, Perspex Group on Orange (B) 94
  95. Ivan Meštrovic, The Archers of Domagoj 95
  96. Jeremy Moon, Arabian Night [3/67] 96
  97. Mark Wallinger, Sleeper 97
  98. Howard Hodgkin, Come into the Garden, Maud 98
  99. Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Blue Rigi, Sunrise 99
  100. Tacita Dean, Kodak 100

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