The French Worker

The French Worker, Pavel Filonov

Love

Love, Gustav Klimt

Hunger

Hunger, Pavel Filonov

Fruit Trees

Fruit Trees, Gustav Klimt

The Black Clock

The Black Clock, Paul Cézanne

Almond Branches in Bloom, San Remy

Almond Branches in Bloom, San Remy, Vincent Van Gogh

Trees by the Gein at Moonrise

Trees by the Gein at Moonrise, Piet Mondrian

Cypress Trees and Houses

Cypress Trees and Houses, Amedeo Modigliani

Autumn in Bavaria

Autumn in Bavaria, Wassily Kandinsky

Still Life with Three Puppies

Still Life with Three Puppies, Paul Gauguin

Carregadores de água

Carregadores de água, Johann Moritz Rugendas

Slavery in Brazil

Slavery in Brazil, Jean-Baptiste Debret

Madame Pompadour

Madame Pompadour, Amadeo Modigliani

Rye Harvest

Rye Harvest, Kasimir Malevich

White Rose in a Glass

White Rose in a Glass, Piet Mondrian

Vase of Hawthorn Bowl Japanese Bowl Cup and Saucer

Vase of Hawthorn Bowl Japanese Bowl Cup and Saucer, Henri Fantin Latour

Fox

Fox, Alexandre Francois Desportes

Flood at Port Marly

Flood at Port Marly, Alfred Sisley

Seaport

Seaport, Claude Lorrain

Leaf Album Painting

Leaf Album Painting, Chen Hongshou

Drinker

Drinker, Paul Cezanne

Storm in the Ricky Mountains

Storm in the Ricky Mountains, Albert Bierstadt

Sleep and his Half Brother Death

Sleep and his Half Brother Death , JW Waterhouse

Female Head

Female head , Thomas Couture

Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike, Davis Stuart

Self Portrait

Self Portrait, Alma Tadema

Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs, JW Waterhouse

Ulysses and the Sirens

Ulysses and the Sirens, John William Waterhouse

Quiz Answers

Thanks for all those who had written. Unfortunately no one seems to have cracked it. As I had mentioned I guess it was a bit obscure. It was not related to paintings at all.

Firstly, as a few had written, the most evident thing amongst the paintings is the Enigma of Arrival - which has been used as a title for book. This perhaps is one answer, the simplest one.

I suppose if you have bought or seen enough penguin covers the answers become, rather plain. So here we go, in the order of the paintings :



1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude.



2. The Wasteland and other poems- TS Eliot



3. The Enigma of Arrival - VS Naipaul


4. Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre
5. Selected Poems - JL Borges

6. Kim - Rudyard Kipling


So there. Must be easier now. One another possible answer is all the books are penguins while The Enigma of Arrival is Picador. But the answer I was looking for was JL Borges, Selected Poems featuring Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. Borges missed out on the Nobel while the rest were bestowed the honour.

Self Portrait

Self Portrait, Frederic Bazille

Bazille's Studio

Bazille's Studio, Frederic Bazille

Return of Odysseus

Return of Odysseus, Nicholas Monsiau