Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Giovanni Bellini,  A Portrait of a Boy, c1475

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham houses a remarkable collection of art including paintings from the 13^th century to the 20^th century.

I have visited it for the first time – drawn by the excellent exhibition of abstract painting: Chance, Order, Change (see entry below). Here are my top ten paintings.
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Luca Signorelli,  A Portrait of Niccolò Vitelli, c 1492-96

Jan Gossaert,  Hercules and Deianira, 1517

Christopher Amberger (attrib.),  A Portrait of a Man, c1530-40

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, A Woman Looking for Fleas, c1715-20

Johan Christian Dahl,  A Mother and Child by the Sea, 1840

André Derain, A Portrait of Bartolomeo Savona, 1906

Fernand Léger, Composition with Fruit, 1938

Howard Hodgkin,  Artificial Flowers, 1975

Frank Auerbach,  Primrose Hill - Winter, 1981-82