Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)

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Landscape with Yellow Birds, 1923

Watercolor on blackened ground.

Private Collection


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Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)

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Twittering Machine
(Csicsergőgép / Die Zwitschermaschine). 1922

Watercolor and pen and ink on transfer drawing on paper mounted on cardboard

64.1 x 48.3 cm (25 1/4 x 19 in.)

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Barnett Newman (American, January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970)

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Adam,  1951-52
Oil on canvas
support: 2429 x 2029 mm

Tate Gallery, London

The name Adam, which in the Old Testament was given to the first man, derives from the Hebrew word adamah (earth), but is also close to adom, (red) and dam (blood). The relationship between brown and red in this painting may therefore symbolise man's intimacy with the earth.

White Fire II, 1960
Oil on canvas, 244 x 193 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel


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Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956)

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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
Enamel on canvas, 105 x 207 in. (266.7 x 525.8 cm)
  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist),1950

221 x 299.7 cm (87 x 118 inches)
Oil, enamel and aluminum on canvas 

National Gallery of Art

Portrait and a Dream, 1953

Oil on canvas, 58 1/2 x 134 3/4 in. (148.59 cm x 3 m 42.26 cm)

Dallas Museum of Art

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Kees van Dongen (Dutch-born French, Jan. 26, 1877 - May 28, 1968)

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Le kiosque à musique, 1900

Gouache, aquarelle, crayon noir et encre sur papier, 25 x 33 cm

L'escalier de l'Opéra, 1901

 46,5 x 58,6 cm
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season, 1909 

Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 65 cm

National Gallery of Canada

Depicting the Russian ballerinas Anna Pavlova and Ida Rubinstein dancing "Cléopâtre", Kees van Dongen's painting commemorates a key event in cultural history: the 1909 inaugural season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets "Russes" in Paris.  (Source)

 Portrait de Kahnweiler, 1907

Huile sur toile, 65 cm x 54 cm
Geneva, Musée du Petit-Palais

Femme orientale, 1910

Huile sur toile, 100 cm x 81 cm
Collection privée

En la Plaza, femmes à la balustrade, 1911

Huile sur toile, 81x100 cm
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade 

Le Coquelicot, c.1919

Huile sur toile , 53 x 45,7 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Les Escarpins Mauves, 1921

Huile sur toile, 100x150cm

Tango ou Le Tango de l’archange, 1922-1935
Huile sur toile, 196 x 197 cm
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

Painter Kees van Dongen standing next to a poster advertising his paintings.

February 1959, Nice, France

LIFE, Loomis Dean


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Vilmos ABA-NOVÁK (Hungarian, March 15, 1894 – September 29, 1941)

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Self-Portrait with Pipe, 1926 

Oil on canvas, 91 x 55,5 cm
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

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Having finished the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts, Vilmos ABA-NOVÁK apprenticed with Adolf FÉNYES in the Szolnok colony for a year in 1913. In the summer of 1921 and 1923 he visited Nagybánya and in 1928-1930 he was on scholarship by the Hungarian Academy of Rome.
 

His painting of vigorous forms based on a keen observation of reality gained new impetus from Neo-Classicist spirit of Novocento. As the leading figure of the Roman School he switched over to tempera and produced historical and ecclesiastic mural paintings. While his frescos testify to his bent for monumentality and stylisation, his canvases of everyday topics display perceptive characterization, sometimes verging on caricature.
 

His choice of themes was influenced by his attraction both to rural scenes and to the evolving folklore of modern urban life with its jazz bands, circus scenes and waitresses. He used the powerful contrast of pure colours as well as forms built of massive blocks and steep edges to express his experiences. From 1939 on he taught at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts. In 1940 he won a grand prix at the Venice Biennale. (Source: kieselbach.hu)

Laura No. 1, 1929
Oil tempera on canvas, 94 x 78 cm
Private collection

Red's Band, c. 1930
Tempera on wood, 72 x 58 cm
Private collection

Taverna, 1931

Tempera on cardboard, 50x60 cm


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Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920)

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Woman with Red Hair. 1917. 

Oil on canvas. 92.1 x 60.7 cm. 

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.

Portrait of Woman in Hat (Jeanne Hébuterne in Large Hat). 1917. 

Oil on canvas. 55 x 38 cm. Private collection.

Reclining Nude, 1917
Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 36 1/2 in. (60.6 x 92.7 cm)

The Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection, 1997

Anna Zborowska. 1917.
Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 32" (130.2 x 81.3 cm).

Lillie P. Bliss Collection

Portrait of Lunia Czechovska. 1919. 

Oil on canvas. 46 x 33 cm. Private collection.

Self Portrait, 1919

Oil on canvas

Museo de Arte, Sao Paulo

Cypress Trees and Houses, 1919 

Oil on canvas 

Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA 

 

http://www.expo-modigliani.net

The Athenaeum
Amadeo Modigliani


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Vasily Surikov (Russian, January 24, 1848 - March 19, 1916)

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Vasily Surikov

Self-Portrait. 1879. 

Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Menshikov in Berezovo. 1883. 

Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

 

Zubovsky Boulevard in the Winter. 1885-1887.
Oil on Canvas, 42 x 30 cm
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Russian Troops under Suvorov Crossing the Alps. 1899. 

Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Robert Motherwell (American, January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991)

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Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 34
1953-54
Oil on canvas, 80 x 100"

Mexican Night. 1979.  

Oil on canvas. 121.9 x 121.9 cm.  

Collection Douglas S. Cramer. Los Angels. California. USA. 

from Ten Works by Ten Artists 

[no title], 1964
Silkscreen collage 

Tate Collection

Automatism B, 1965-66

Je T'aime, (from Three Poems by Octavio Paz) , 1987-1988 

 33.2 x 27.6 in / 84.3 x 70.1 cm

Source. ArtNet 

Mask (For Ingmar Bergman) , 1989

52.5 x 42 in / 133.4 x 106.7 cm 

Source: Artnet

Lament for Lorca, 1991

Etching on buff Arches paper 

Source: Artnet

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Edvard Munch (Norwegian, December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944)

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 Night in St. Cloud. 1890. 

Oil on canvas. 64.5 x 54 cm. 

Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway.

 Madonna. 1894/95. 

Oil on canvas. 91 x 70.5 cm. 

Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway.

Moonlight. 1895. Oil on canvas. 93 x 110 cm. 

Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway.

Self-Portrait with Burning Cigarette. 1895. 

Oil on canvas. 110.5 x 85.5 cm. Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway. 

Snow Falling in the Lane. 1906.

Oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm. Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.

The Sun

From the Oslo University Aula decoration.1911-16. 

Oil on canvas. 455 x 780. The Oslo University, Oslo, Norway.

http://www.edvardmunch.info/


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Salvador Dalí (Spanish, May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989)

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Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat. 

(Particle Head over the Village of Cadaques). 1954. 

Oil on cardboard. 26.6 x 17.8. Private collection.

 Still Life - Fast Moving, 1956.

Oil on canvas. 49 1/2 x 63 in. (125.7 x 160 cm). 

The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Gala Looking at the Mediterranean Sea 

wich from a Distance of 20 Metres is Transformed 

into a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. 

1976. Minami Museum. Tokyo.

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Edouard Manet (French, January 23, 1832 – April 30, 1883)

Sur la plage (At the Beach), 1873. 

Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Berthe Morisot, 1872. 

Oil on canvas. 

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France