2010/01/31

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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2010/01/29

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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2010/01/28

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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  • 2010/01/26

    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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    2010/01/25

    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

    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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    2010/01/24

    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 

     

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

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    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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    2010/01/23

    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.

    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