What if they had painted it?

Whatifs imagines the paintings the great masters never painted: a Vermeer asleep on a map, a Van Gogh of Marseille's Old Port, the morning after Bosch's Garden. Each one comes with the story of its rediscovery and its record-breaking sale, told the way the art press tells real ones.

Nothing here is real. The paintings are generated by AI, the stories are written for the series, the auctions never happened. We only imagine works by artists who died long ago and whose work is in the public domain, we never reproduce a signature, and we never sell anything as an original.

A new painting every day here and on Instagram, and a new Whatif every week by email.