UNIT SEVENTEEN: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA
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Cubism
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Georges Braque
(1882-1963)
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Georges Braque
Man with a Guitar
[Ceret, summer 1911]
Oil on canvas
45 3/4 x 31 7/8 in. (116.2
x 80.9 cm.)
The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
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Georges Braque
Woman with a Guitar
Sorgues, autumn 1913
Oil and charcoal on canvas
51 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (130 x
73 cm.)
Musee National d'Art
Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris
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Georges Braque
Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs
[Paris, early 1913]
Oil, gouache, and charcoal on
canvas
31 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. (81 x 60 cm.)
Musee National d'Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Georges Braque
Fruitdish and Glass
September 1912
Pasted papers and
charcoal on paper
Private collection
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Georges Braque
Still Life on a Table: "Gillette."
[Paris, early 1914]
Charcoal, pasted paper, and gouache
18 7/8 x 24 3/8 in. (48 x 62 cm.)
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973)
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why
do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them?
But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand. If only they would realize
above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only an insignificant part of the
world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things
which please us in the world, though we can’t explain them people who try to explain pictures
are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
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The Blue and Rose periods 1901-1906
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Pablo Picasso. A Spanish Couple in front of an Inn.
1900. Pastel on cardboard. Private collection.
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Pablo Picasso.
Woman with Chignon.
1901.
Oil on canvas.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Death of Casagemas.
1901.
Oil on wood.
Musée Picasso, Paris,
France.
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Pablo Picasso.
Self-portrait in Blue Period.
1901. Oil on canvas.
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Pablo Picasso.
The Absinthe Drinker.
1901.
Oil on canvas.
The Hermitage, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
The Visit (Two Sisters).
1902.
Oil on canvas pasted on panel.
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
The Tragedy.
1903.
Oil on wood.
The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Old Beggar with a Boy.
1903.
Oil on canvas.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art,
Moscow, Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
In 'Lapin Agile' or
Harlequin with a Glass.
1905.
Oil on canvas.
Private collection.
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Pablo Picasso.
Acrobat on a Ball.
1905
Oil on canvas.
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art,
Moscow, Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
The Family of
Saltimbanques.
1905.
Oil on canvas.
The National Gallery
of Art, Washington,
DC, USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Lady with a Fan.
1905.
Oil on canvas.
The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Portrait of Gertrude Stein.
1906.
Oil on canvas.
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, USA.
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Cubism 1907-1917
“Cubism is no different from any other school of painting. The same
principles and the same elements are common to all. The fact that
for a long time cubism has not been understood and that even today
there are people who cannot see anything in it, means nothing. I do
not read English, and an English book is a blank to me. This does not
mean that the English language does not exist, and why should I
blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing
about?”
Picasso.
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Pablo Picasso.
Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon.
1907.
Oil on canvas.
The Museum of Modern
Arts, New York, NY,
USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Woman Seated.
1908.
Oil on canvas.
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
Bottle of Pernod (Table in a
Café).
1912.
Oil on canvas.
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
Still-Life with Chair Caning.
1911/12.
Collage of oil, oilcloth, and pasted paper simulating chair
caning on canvas.
Musée Picasso, Paris, France.
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Pablo Picasso.
Violin and Guitar.
1913.
Oil on canvas.
The Hermitage, St.
Petersburg, Russia.
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Pablo Picasso.
Harlequin.
1915.
Oil on canvas.
The Museum of Modern Arts, New York,
NY, USA.
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Between Two Wars 1917-1936
Classicism and Surrealism
“Of all these things – hunger, misery, being misunderstood by the public –
fame is by far the worst. This is how God chastises the artist. It is sad. It
is true.” Picasso
“I keep doing my best not to lose sight of nature. I want to aim at
similarity, a profound similarity which is more real than reality, thus
becoming surrealist.” Picasso
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Pablo Picasso.
The Lovers.
1923.
Oil on canvas.
The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, USA
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Pablo Picasso.
Mother and Child.
1921-22.
Oil on canvas.
The Alex L. Hillman Family
Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Three
Musicians.
1921.
Oil on canvas.
The Museum of
Modern Arts,
New York, NY,
USA
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Pablo Picasso.
The Pipes of Pan.
1923.
Oil on canvas.
Musée Picasso, Paris, France.
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Pablo Picasso.
The Seated Harlequin.
1923.
Oil on canvas. Kunstmuseum
Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Pablo Picasso.
Nude and Still-life.
1931.
Oil on canvas.
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Pablo Picasso.
Girl Before a Mirror.
1932.
Oil on canvas.
The Museum of Modern
Arts, New York, NY, USA.
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Pablo Picasso.
Woman with a Flower.
1932.
Oil on canvas.
Galerie Beyeler, Basle,
Switzerland.
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Wartime Experience 1937-1945
“Guernica, the oldest town of the Basque provinces and the center of their
cultural traditions, was almost completely destroyed by the rebels in an air
attack yesterday afternoon. The bombing of the undefended town far behind
the front line took exactly three quarters of an hour. During this time and
without interruption a group of German aircraft – Junker and Heinkel
bombers as well as Heinkel fighters – dropped bombs weighing up to 500
kilogrammes on the town. At the same time low-flying fighter planes fired
machine-guns at the inhabitants who had taken refuge in the fields. The
whole of Guernica was in flames in a very short time.”
The Times, April 27, 1937.
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Pablo Picasso.
Guernica.
1937.
Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
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Pablo Picasso.
A Woman in Tears.
1937.
Oil on canvas.
Musée Picasso, Paris,
France.
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After WWII. The Late Works. 1946-1973.
“The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an
evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I
have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it will
always remain in the present. I have never had time for the idea of
searching. Whenever I have wanted to express something, I have done
so without thinking of the past or the future. I have never made
radically different experiments. Whenever I have wanted to say
something, I have said it in such a way as I believed I had to. Different
themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does
not imply either evolution or progress, but it is a matter of following the
idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express
it.” Picasso.
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Pablo Picasso.
The Studio of "La Californie" at Cannes.
1956.
Oil on canvas.
Musée Picasso, Paris, France.
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Pablo Picasso.
Lunch on the Grass.
Oil on canvas.
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Juan Gris
b. Mar. 13, 1887, d. May 11, 1927
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Gris, The Open Window; Oil on canvas, 65 x 100 cm (25
5/8 x 39 3/8 in); M. Meyer Collection, Zurich
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Gris, The Pot of
Geraniums, 1915; Oil on
canvas, 81 x 60 cm (31 7/8
x 23 5/8 in)
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Piet Mondrian
(1872-1944)
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Piet Mondrian
Composition with Oval in
Color Planes II,
1914, oil on canvas,
Haags Gemeentemuseum,
The Hague.
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Piet Mondrian, Still Life with Gingerpot II, 1912, oil on canvas, Haags
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
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Piet Mondrian, Self
Portrait, 1918, oil on
canvas, Haags
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
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Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black,
1924-25, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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Piet Mondrian, Victory
Boogie Woogie,
unfinished, 1942-43, oil
and paper on canvas,
private collection.
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Marc Chagall
(1887-1985)
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Marc Chagall, I and the
Village, 1911, oil on canvas.
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Marc Chagall, Jew at Prayer,
1912-13.
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Marc Chagall
Fiddler on the Roof,
1923-24,
oil on canvas,
The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York.
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Marc Chagall, The Flying Carriage, 1913.
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Marc Chagall, The Birthday,
1915, oil on canvas.
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Marc Chagall, Cemetery Gates,
1917, oil on canvas, private
collection.
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Marc Chagall, The Praying Jew,
1923, oil on canvas, The Art Institute
of Chicago.
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Marc Chagall, Exodus, 1952-66.
Marc Chagall, The Falling Angel, 1923-47, oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum,
Basel.
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Marc Chagall, The Three
Candles, 1938-40, oil on
canvas, private collection.
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Marc Chagall, Madonna
of the Village, 1938-42,
oil on canvas, ThyssenBornemisza Collection,
Lugano.
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Beginnings: "Mother Moscow" 1866-1896.
Kandinskii, Blue Mountain
of (1908)
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Wassily Kandinsky
(1866-1944)
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Kandinskii,
Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)
1913
Oil on canvas
145 x 119.7cm (57 x 47 in)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
D.C.
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Kandinsky
Flood Improvisation,
1913, oil on canvas,
Lenbachhaus, Munich.
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Kandinsky
Riding Couple,
1906-07, oil on canvas,
Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Kandinsky
Interior (My Dining Room),
1909, oil on cardboard, Lenbachhaus, Munich
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Kandinsky
Church in Marnau,
1910, oil on cardboard,
Lenbachhaus, Munich.
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Kandinsky
Yellow-Red-Blue,
1925, oil on canvas, Musée
National d'Art Moderne,
Centre Georges
Pompidou
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Kandinsky, Wassily
Autumn in Bavaria
1908; Oil on cardboard,
33x45cm;
Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris
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Kandinsky, Wassily
Black Spot I
1912 (200 Kb);
Oil on canvas, 100 x 130 cm;
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Jackson Pollock
(1912-56). American painter, the commanding figure of the Abstract
Expressionist movement.
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Jackson Pollock
Number 28
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Jackson Pollock
Male and Female
1942 (240 Kb); Oil on
canvas,
73 1/4 x 49 in;
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Jackson Pollock
Blue (Moby Dick)
c. 1943 (150 Kb); Gouache and ink on composition board, 18 3/4 x 23 7/8
in; Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
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Jackson Pollock
The She-Wolf
1943 (230 Kb); Oil, gouache, and plaster on canvas, 41 7/8 x 67 in; The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Salvador Dali
1904 - 1989
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Salvador Dali
View of Cadaques with Shadow of Mount Pani
(1917)
Oil on canvas
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Salvador Dali
The Tartan ,1919
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Salvador Dali
View of Portdogue (Port Alguer, Cadaques)
(1920)
Oil on canvas
17 3/4 x 20 inches
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Salvador Dali
Self-Portrait (Figueres)
(1921)
Oil on canvas
14 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
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Salvador Dali
Pierrot Playing the
Guitar, 1925
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Salvador Dali
Still Life with Moonight, 1925
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Salvador Dali
Inagural Gooseflesh,
1928
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Salvador Dali
The Persistence of
Memory
-1931- oil on canvas - 24 x 33 cm - The Museum of
Modern Art, New
York 90
Salvador Dali
Invisible Sleeping Woman, 1930
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Salvador Dali
Vertigo, 1930
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Salvador Dali
Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus,
1935
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Salvador Dali
Swans Reflecting Elephants, 1937
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Salvador Dali
The Burning Giraffe,
1937
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Salvador Dali
Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937
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Salvador Dali
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1938
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Salvador Dali
The Enigma of Hitler, 1939
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Salvador Dali
The Madonna of Port Lligat
1949
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Salvador Dali
Christ of Saint John of the Cross,
1951
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Salvador Dali
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
1962
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Salvador Dali
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Joan Miro
(1893-1983)
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Joan Miro
Carnival of Harlequin
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Joan Miro
Nocturne
1940
Tempera, gouache, egg, oil, and pastel on paper
38 x 46 cm
Private collection
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Joan Miro
Dawn Perfumed by a
Shower of Gold
1954
Watercolor and plaster
on composition board
42 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (108
x 54.9 cm.)
San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art
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Joan Miro
Old Shoe
107
Paul Klee
(1879-1940)
108
Paul Klee
Remembrance of a Garden
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Paul Klee
Twittering Machine
(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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Paul Klee
Dream City
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Marcel Duchamp
[French-born American Dadaist/Surrealist
Conceptual Artist, 1887-1968]
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Marcel Duchamp
Apropos of Little Sister,
October 1911. Oil on canvas,
28 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches. Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum
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Marcel Duchamp,
Nude Descending a Staircase
1912
Oil on canvas
146 x 89 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Marcel Duchamp
Study for Chess Players,
late 1911. India ink and
watercolor on lined wove paper,
8 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum
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Marcel Duchamp
Transition of Virgin into a Bride/Le Passage de la
Vierge à la Mariée.
1912.
Canvas 59 x 53.5 cm.
The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY
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Marcel Duchamp
Reproduction of L.H.O.O.Q.
1919.
from Box in a Valise.
Readymade: pencil on a reproduction
of the Mona Lisa.
19.7 x 12.4 cm.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia
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Marcel Duchamp
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René Magritte
(1898-1967)
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René Magritte
The Difficult Crossing,
1926,
oil on canvas,
Jean Krebs Collection, Brussels.
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René Magritte.
La Fin des contemplations.
1927.
Oil on canvas with metallic pins.
72.8 x 99.8 cm.
Private collection.
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René Magritte
Intermission.
1927/28.
Oil on canvas.
114.3 x 161 cm.
Private collection
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René Magritte
The Voice of the Winds.
1928.
Oil on canvas.
73 x 54 cm.
Private collection
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René Magritte
The Lovers. 1928. Oil on canvas. 54.2 x 73 cm. Private collection
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René Magritte
The Human Condition,
1935,
oil on canvas,
Simon Spierer Collection,
Geneva.
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René Magritte,
La Durée Poignardée, 1939
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René Magritte
Homesickness,
1940,
oil on canvas,
Galerie Isy Brachot,
Brussels.
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René
Magritte.
The Cicerone.
1947.
Oil on canvas.
54 x 65 cm.
Private
collection
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René Magritte
Personal Values, 1951-52, oil on canvas, private collection, New York
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René Magritte
Gonconda. 1953. Oil on canvas. 81 x 100 cm. The Menil Collection, Houston, 130
TX,
René Magritte
The Empire of Lights.
1954.
Oil on canvas.
146 x 113.7 cm.
Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels, Belgium.
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René Magritte.
Hegel's Holiday.
1958.
Oil on canvas.
61 x 50 cm.
Private collection
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René Magritte
The Great War, 1964, oil on
canvas, private collection.
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René Magritte
The Son of Man, 1964
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René Magritte
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René Magritte
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