Collected by Stephanie Moran

=>  [an ongoing collection of literary references to painting]

The Unknown Masterpiece 1831 9781523641840 Honoré De Balzac / Ellen Marriage

Oval Portrait 1842 9780141439815 Edgar Allan Poe

Beacons 1857 B01BHX8K64 Baudelaire / Francis Scarfe (trans.)

On Delacroix’s Picture of Tasso 1857 B01BHX8K64 Baudelaire / Francis Scarfe (trans.)

Lady Audley’s Secret 1862 9780199577033 Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Against Nature 1884 9781903517659 J.-K. Huysmans / Brendan King

The Diary of a Chambermaid 1900 9780946626820 Octave Mirbeau / Douglas Jarman (trans.)

Wings of the Dove 1902 9780199555437 Henry James

The Trial 1915 9780141182902 Franz Kafka

Tea with an Artist / La Grosse Fifi 1927 9780141196206 Jean Rhys

To the Lighthouse 1927 9781853260919 Virginia Woolf

Death of a Ghost 1934 9780099593539 Margery Allingham

Nausea 1938 9780811220309 Jean-Paul Sartre

Sadness of Cornelius Berg 1938 9780374519971 Marguerite Yourcenar

Confessions of a Mask 1949 978081120118X Yukio Mishima

The Zahir 1949 9780141183831 Borges

The Sandcastle 1957 9780701003731 Iris Murdoch

Vermilion Sands/ Screen Game 1962 9781857990056 J G Ballard

Another Country 1962 9780718100107 James Baldwin

Chronicles of Bustos Domecq 1967 9780525475484 Borges & Bioy Casares

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 9780575079939 Philip K Dick

The Duel / Brodie’s Report 1970 9780141183862 Jorge Luis Borges

The Ebony Tower 1974 9780224010344 John Fowles

The Painted Word 1975 9780552993700 Tom Wolfe

Life a User’s Manual 1978 9780099449256 Georges Perec

Hals Mystery 1979 9780375421564 John Berger

Great Expectations 1982 9780330281860 Kathy Acker

The Bone People 1984 9780330485418 Ceri Hulme

Slaves of New York 1986 9780330297538 Tama Janowitz

An Artist of the Floating World 1986 978057114716X Kazuo Ishiguro

Bluebeard 1987 9780385295901 Kurt Vonnegut

Cat’s Eye 1988 9780747590125 Margaret Atwood

The Truth About Lorin Jones 1988 9780349100667 Alison Lurie

Possession 1990 9780099800403 A. S. Byatt

My Name is Asher Lev 1990 9780140036428 Chaim Potok

A Heart So White 1992 9781860463396 Javier Marias

The Folding Star 1994 9780099476916 Alan Hollinghurst

Art and Lies 1994 9780099462311 Jeanette Winterson

The Golden Key 1996 9780330347764 Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott

The Underpainter 1997 9780747535218 Jane Urquhart

Underworld 1997 9780330369954 Don DeLillo

Spending 1998 9780684852041 Mary Gordon

What I Loved 2003 97803406682388 Siri Hustvedt

Masterpiece 2005 9780553817126 Miranda Glover

Men In Space 2007 9780307388223 Tom McCarthy

Rothko’s Red 2008 9781844714445 Sue Hubbard

The Map and the Territory 2010 9780099554578 Michel Houellebecq

The Artists 2011 B004TI5W9I Larry Niven