Art in New York
Fantasy Art – Metaphysical Painting
Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910,
Oil on canvas, MoMA, NY.
Henri Rousseau, Carnival Evening, 1886.
Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911, Oil on canvas, MoMA, NY.
Marc Chagall, Paris Through the Window, 1913, Oil on canvas, 52” X 54¾”.
Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer’s Recompense, 1913,
Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Giorgio de Chirico, The Seer, 1915, Oil on canvas, MoMA, NY.
Giorgio de Chirico, The Melancholy and Mystery
of a Street, 1914, Oil on canvas, 34¼” X 28”.
Paul Klee, Twittering Machine, 1922, watercolor / ink
on oil transfer drawing on paper, 25¼” X 19".
Paul Klee, Mask of Fear, 1932, Oil on burlap, 39½” X 22½”.
Paul Klee, Death and Fire, 1940, Oil on wood, 18” X 17”.
Art in New York
Dada
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (signed “R. Mutt”),
1917, porcelain urinal, life-size.
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, replica of a lost 1913
original, bicycle wheel on wooden stool, life-size, MoMA, NY.
Marcel Duchamp, Prelude to a Broken Arm, 1917, shovel, life-size.
Marcel Duchamp, Bottlerack, 1914 (Bottle Dryer),
full scale replica of a lost 1914 original.
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, color reproduction of Leonardo da
Vinci’s Mona Lisa altered with pencil, Private collection, Paris.
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, no 2, 1912,
Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Marcel Duchamp, Tu m’, 1918, Oil and graphite on canvas, with bottle-washing
brush, safety pins, nut and bolt, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 191523, oil, lead, wire, foil, dust, and varnish on glass, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Francis Picabia, Ici, C’est Ici Stieglitz, 1915, pen and ink on paper,
291/8 x 20", Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Man Ray, Gift, replica of a lost 1921 original, iron
with tacks, private collection, Chicago.
Morton L. Schamberg, God, c. 1918, construction with wooden miter box and
plumbing trap, 10 1/2" high, collection Morton Neumann, Chicago.
Jean Hans Arp, Arrangenment According to the Laws of Chance (Collage
with Squares), 1916-17, torn and pasted paper on paper, MoMA, NY.
Jean Hans Arp, Forest, 1916, painted wood relief, 13” X 8".
Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau, Hanover, Germany, c.1924-33 (destroyed).
Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife, 1919, collage of pasted
papers, 44 7/8” X 35½”, Nationalgalerie, Staaliche Museen, Berlin.
Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife, 1919,
collage of pasted papers
Raoul Hausmann, The Spirit of Our Time (Mechanical Head), 1919,
wood, leather, aluminum, brass, and cardboard, 13” X 9".
Art in New York
Surrealism
Max Ernst, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924, oil
on wood with wood construction, 27½” X 22½” X 4½”, MoMA, NY.
Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes, 1921, Oil on canvas, 51” X 43¼”.
Max Ernst, Oedipus Rex, 1922, Oil on canvas, 36” X 40”.
Max Ernst, Europe After the Rain, 1940-1942, Oil on canvas, 21½” X 58”.
Max Ernst, The Horde, 1927, Oil on canvas, 45¼” X 57½”.
Andre Masson, Battle of Fishes, 1927, sand, gesso, oil,
pencil and charcoal on canvas, 14¼” X 28¾”, MoMA, NY.
Joan Miro, The Hunter, 1923-24.
Joan Miró, The Harlequin’s Carnival, 1924-25, Oil on canvas, 26” X 36”.
Joan Miró, The Tilled Field, 1923-24, Oil on canvas, 26” X 36½”.
Joan Miró, The Birth of the World, 1925, Oil on canvas, 8' 3" X 6' 6¾”.
Joan Miró, Rhythmic Personages, 1933-34, Oil on canvas, 76” X 67”.
Salvador Dalí, The Accommodation of Desire,
1926, Oil on wood, 8” X 13¾”.
Salvador Dalí, The Great Masturbator, 1929, Oil on canvas, 43” X 59".
Salvador Dalí, The Enigma of Desire--My Mother, My
Mother, My Mother, 1929, Oil on canvas, 43” X 59”.
Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931, Oil on canvas, 9½” X 13", MoMA, NY.
Salvador Dalí, Soft-Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of
Civil War, 1936, Oil on canvas, 43¼” X 33 1/8”, MoMA, NY.
Salvador Dalí, Mae West’s Face Which May Be Used as a Surrealist
Apartment, 1934-1935, gouache on newspaper, 12” X 6”.
Salvador Dalí, Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish
on a Beach, 1938, Oil on canvas, 45” X 56”.
Yves Tanguy, Mama, Papa Is Wounded!, 1927, Oil on canvas, 36 ½” X 8¾”, MoMA, NY.
René Magritte, The Human Condition I, 1934, Oil on canvas, Private Collection, France.
René Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928, Oil on canvas, 21¼” X 31”.
René Magritte, The Betrayal of Images (This Is
Not a Pipe), 1929, Oil on canvas, 24½” X 31”.
René Magritte, The Lovers, 1928, Oil on canvas, Collection Richard S. Zeisler, NY.
René Magritte, The Rape, 1934, Oil on canvas, 28¾” X 21”.
René Magritte, Time Transfixed, 1939, Oil on canvas, 57½” X 38”.
Pablo Picasso, Bull’s Head, 1942, assemblage of bicycle
saddle and handlebars, Musee Picasso, Paris.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, June 1937, Oil on canvas, 11' 5
1/2" X 25' 5 ¾”, Prado, Madrid.
Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror, 1932, Oil on canvas, MoMA, NY.
Pablo Picasso, Seated Bather, 1930, Oil on canvas, MoMA, NY.
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Dejeuner en Fourrure), 1936 .
Alberto Giacometti, Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932.
Alberto Giacometti, Suspended Ball, 1930-31.
Alberto Giacometti, The Nose, 1947.
Alberto Giacometti, Point to the Eye, 1932.
Alberto Giacometti, Caress (Despite Hands), 1932 .
Alberto Giacometti, Man and Woman, 1928 .
Alberto Giacometti, Spoon Woman, 1926-27.
Alberto Giacometti, Man (Apollo), 1929.
Roberto Matta Echaurren, Listen to the Living, 1941,
Oil on canvas, MoMA, NY.
Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939, Oil on canvas, 67" x 67".
Frida Kahlo, Diego on my Mind, 1943, Oil on masonite, 30" X 24".
Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column (self-portrait), 1944,
Oil on canvas, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico.