The first of a new series where we select a member of the Bridgeman team to highlight images in the archive that have caught their eye.

"This was tough. Do I choose pictures that make me seem super highbrow and tasteful? Or the five most marketable? My actual top five? What even are they? Who even am I? Did some soul-searching; went with the ones that genuinely bring me the most joy to behold.
"Here they are, in ascending order..."
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A grown-up version of the photo shoots they used to do in Smash Hits of boy bands playing with puppies.
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3. Where do I even begin with this one..? |
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One of my absolute favourite artworks. Strindberg, known mostly as a playwright than a great painter, but an exuberant misanthropy shines through here without the laboured artfulness that makes a lot of his writing so unbelievably dry. Did my final dissertation on him - can you tell? |
1. And finally, some old socks
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Click on the panda for a lightbox of my runners-up. It’s quite heavy on dogs/cute animals/erotic surrealism. |