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Figure https://www.artic.edu/artworks/110973/
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Portrait of Woman in White https://www.artic.edu/artworks/2820/
Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Curving Function Greenish Brown https://www.artic.edu/artworks/102582/
Marian and Samuel Klasstorner Fund
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Andirons https://www.artic.edu/artworks/247978/
Gift of the Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation, Inc.
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The Lamps https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118671/
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Halleluiah https://www.artic.edu/artworks/185759/
Bequest of Richard S. Zeisler
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Soap Bubble Set https://www.artic.edu/artworks/99782/
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Little Harbor in Normandy https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109330/
In early 1908, Georges Braque began an artistic collaboration with Pablo Picasso. From 1909 until Braque was mobilized for World War I, they worked in creative dialogue, breaking down and reformulating the representation of objects and their structure. In doing so, they pioneered one of the most radical artistic revolutions of the twentieth century, Cubism. Little Harbor in Normandy is the first fully realized example of Braque’s early Cubist style. He described the English Channel coast in severe geometries and a sober palette, reduced in range and intensity to pale shades of color. His compressed treatment of space and use of a shifting perspective seems to propel the two sailboats forward to the front edges of the picture. To further energize the scene, the artist added a fringe of whitecaps to the sea and dashes of clouds across the sky. His repetitive, striated modeling of form, inspired by his study of the art of Paul Cézanne, increased the rigid tension of this canvas. Documentation suggests that Little Harbor in Normandy was exhibited in Paris in March 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants, making this painting the first major Cubist work to be shown in such a prominent venue. Samuel A. Marx Purchase Fund
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Portrait of Pablo Picasso https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8624/
In 1906 Juan Gris traveled to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque and participated in the development of Cubism. Just six years later, Gris too was known as a Cubist and identified by at least one critic as "Picasso’s disciple." Gris’s style draws upon Analytic Cubism—with its deconstruction and simultaneous viewpoint of objects—but is distinguished by a more systematic geometry and crystalline structure. Here he fractured his sitter’s head, neck, and torso into various planes and simple, geometric shapes but organized them within a regulated, compositional structure of diagonals. The artist further ordered the composition of this portrait by limiting his palette to cool blue, brown, and gray tones that, in juxtaposition, appear luminous and produce a gentle undulating rhythm across the surface of the painting.Gris depicted Picasso as a painter, palette in hand. The inscription, "Hommage à Pablo Picasso," at the bottom right of the painting demonstrates Gris’s respect for Picasso as a leader of the artistic circles of Paris and as an innovator of Cubism. At the same time, the inscription helped Gris solidify his own place within the Paris art world when he exhibited the portrait at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1912. Gift of Leigh B. Block
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Sleeping Muse https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9024/
Upon arriving in Paris from Romania in 1904, Constantin Brancusi quickly rejected the prevailing theatricality and narrative detail of master sculptor Auguste Rodin. Instead of modeling in clay, and inspired by non-Western art, he began to carve directly into stone, the material chosen for his first version of Sleeping Muse. Further reducing and abbreviating form, Brancusi revised some works by casting them in metal with a fine finish. Such sculptures as this version of Sleeping Muse are self-sufficient, archetypal modern forms. Arthur Jerome Eddy Memorial Collection
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Reminiscence of a Cathedral https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109529/
Born in Bohemia (in the present-day Czech Republic), Frantisek Kupka immigrated to Paris in 1896, where he lived until his death. Kupka developed a unique path to pure abstraction. He combined his interests in Orphism, an offshoot of Cubism that focused on simultaneous color contrasts as equivalents of musical pitches, Slavic folk art, the decorative art of Islam, and new scientific inventions such as radiography. Theosophy—a synthesis of philosophy, religion, and science—also guided Kupka’s approach to art. Additionally, he studied the stained-glass windows of the Notre-Dame cathedrals in Paris and Chartres. Kupka’s desire to capture the feeling of light passing through colored glass led to a number of compositions on this theme, including Reminiscence of a Cathedral. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Spanish Physician https://www.artic.edu/artworks/145243/
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
November 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Two Nude Women https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118673/
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Still Life https://www.artic.edu/artworks/73649/
Bequest of Mima de Manziarly Porter
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Composition https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16969/
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Wood Prince
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Maquette for "Miró's Chicago" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/100666/
Gift of William E. Hartmann
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Counter-Composition VIII https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64962/
In 1917 Theo van Doesburg founded an art periodical in Leiden called De Stijl (The Style). This name also referred to the artists’ group—including Van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, and Georges Vantongerloo—associated with the publication. These artists saw abstraction as an almost spiritual vehicle to reconstruct art and society following World War I. Their approach, as exemplified by Counter-Composition VIII, was marked by fundamentals: geometry (squares, rectangles, and straight lines) combined with asymmetry; pure primary colors used along with black and white; and positive and negative elements. In addition to painting, De Stijl had a great impact on architecture and design, and it deeply influenced Germany’s famed Bauhaus. Gift of Peggy Guggenheim
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Bust of Kneeling Girl https://www.artic.edu/artworks/30841/
Wilhelm Lehmbruck made his avant-garde breakthrough in 1911 with Kneeling Girl, an over-life-size figure whose expressive melancholy and elongated proportions established the artist’s reputation as an important German Expressionist sculptor. In Bust of Kneeling Girl, he isolated the sculpture’s most poignant passage—the pensive gesture of the tilted head—by provocatively cropping the figure at the midpoint of the breasts. Contemporary critics compared Kneeling Girl and Bust of Kneeling Girl to Gothic sculpture, at the time understood to communicate emotional and spiritual truth more directly than classical academic art. Lehmbruck debuted both sculptures at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, but they achieved their greatest impact in Germany, where the artist returned in 1914 after four years in France. Gift of Robert Allerton
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Man with a Pipe https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109260/
Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block in memory of Albert D. Lasker
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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For Juan Gris #7 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/99771/
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Still Life with Eggs https://www.artic.edu/artworks/73650/
Bequest of Mima de Manziarly Porter
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Torso-Kore https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118648/
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Sakuhin https://www.artic.edu/artworks/230686/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The City https://www.artic.edu/artworks/66218/
Bequest of Solomon B. Smith
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Bathers by a River https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79307/
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM