Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Etude de Vieillard assis (Study of an Old Man Seated), 1856-1858
Pencil on off-white laid paper
12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (32.1 x 23.5 cm)
Inscribed by the artist in pencil lower left: Rome 1856
Degas vente stamp (Lügt 658) in red lower left
Vente IV:97.e
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Fiacres sur le Boulevard Montmartre, c. 1897
Brush and sepia wash and pen and black ink on paper
7 1/8 x 9 in. (18.2 x 23 cm.)
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Rochers prés des grottes au-dessus de Cháteau Noir (Rocks near the Caves above Chateau Noir), 1895-1900
Watercolor and pencil on paper
18 x 11 1/2 in. (45.7 x 29.2 cm)
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
La faunesse, 1906
Marble
Height 23.4 in. (59.5 cm)
Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)
Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, 1893
Oil on canvas
38 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (98 x 59.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881–1919)
Head of a Girl with a Slender Neck, 1913-1914
Terra-cotta
17 x 13 1⁄2 x 7 in. (43.2 x 33 x 17.8 cm)
Collection of the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Gift of the Charter Collectors 1974.22.
Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
La Cuisinière, 1893
Oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 23 3/8 in. (81.6 x 59.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: MAVD 93
John C. Whitehead Collection, until 2015
Giorgio de Chirico (1888—1978)
Portrait of Carlo Cirelli, 1915
Oil on canvas
77.5 x 64.1 cm. (30.5 x 25.2 in.)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)
Beatrice Hastings, 1916
Oil on canvas
25.5 x 18 1/8 in (64.9 x 45.9 cm)
John C. Whitehead Collection, until 2015
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Bouquet de fleurs (Bouquet of Flowers), c. 1912
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (73 x 54.6 cm)
Inscribed, lower left: ODILON REDON
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
Ta-Matete (The Market), 1892
Fan: watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on cream wove paper
5 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (14.5 x 46 cm)
John C. Whitehead Collection, until 2015
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Tête de femme II, 1930
Oil on canvas
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: G Braque 30
John C. Whitehead Collection, until 2015
Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
Stillleben mit Fisch und Muschel (Still-life with a fish and a shell), 1942
Oil on canvas
Photo credit: Peter Schälchli Zurich
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)
La Communiante (La Mariée), c. 1924
Oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 18 ¾ in. (81.6 x 47.5 cm.)
Max Beckmann (1884-1950)
Strelitzien-Porträt (Portrait with Birds of Paradise), 1937
Oil on canvas
63 3/8 x 32 11/16 (161.5 x 83 cm)
Signed and dated: Beckmann B 37
Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)
Verhüllte Bettlerin (Barmherzigkeit) (Veiled Beggar Woman [Mercy]), 1919
Walnut
15 x 13 1/3 x 12 in. (38 x 30.4 x 33.7 cm)
Signed and dated on left of plinth: E Barlach 1919
Ernst Barlach Haus—Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg
Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)
Drei singende Frauen (Three Women Singing), 1911
Oak
21 1/4 x 34 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (54 x 88 x 50 cm)
Signed and dated on base: E. Barlach 1911
Ernst Barlach Haus—Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg
Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)
Der Dorfgeiger (The Fiddler), 1913-14
Oak
24 1/2 x 14 2/4 x 12 1/4 in. (62 x 37.5 x 31 cm)
Ernst Barlach Haus—Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Gelbe Birken (Yellow Birches), 1914
Oil on canvas
47 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (120.7 x 89.5 cm)
Verso: Bathers in Fehmarn Landscape
Estate stamp on verso: Be/Aa9
Otto Mueller (1874-1930)
Maschka mit Maske (Maschka with Mask), 1919/21
Glue-bound distemper on burlap
37.6 x 26.6 in. (95.5 x 67.5 cm)
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Farmer’s Wife with Children; Mrs. Schmit with Children, 1919
(Bäuerin mit Kindern; Frau Schmidt mit Kindern)
Oil on canvas
35 ½ x 27 3/5 in. (90 x 70 cm)
Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
Linea di Velocità e Paesaggio, c. 1915
Watercolor, pencil, and collage on card
15 1/2 x 11 in. (39.4 x 27.9 cm)
Franz Marc (1880–1916)
Foxes (also known as Four Foxes), 1913
Watercolor and blue chalk on paper
17 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (44.5 x 38.5 cm)
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
Paravento con linea di velocità (Screen with lines of velocity), 1916-1917
Oil on four canvases on two artist's stretchers and in the artist's painted frame
59 1/2 x 49 5/8 in. (151 x 126 cm)
Stamped lower left: BALLA FUTURISTA
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Study for Panel Edwin R. Campbell, No. 4, 1914
(also known as Studie zu Winter and Carnival-Winter)
Oil on cardboard
27 1/2 x 19 in. (69.8 x 48.4 cm)
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864-1941)
Abstrakter Kopf: Erscheinung (Abstract Head: Apparition), 1928
Oil on board
17 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (45.1 x 32.4 cm)
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Sommerlandschaft (Summer Landscape), 1924
Oil on canvas, laid on cardboard and bordered with watercolor and ink
15 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (40 x 32.4 cm)
Signed upper left: Klee
Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)
Head of Max Ernst, Inferno, 1940
Graphite, heightened with white gouache, on tan wove paper
9 x 7 1/2 in. (23 x 19 cm)
Signed lower right: Bellmer
Dated lower left: 1940
Signed and dated lower right: Bellmer 40
Art Institue of Chicago
George Grosz (1893-1959)
Pandemonium, 1914
India ink on paper
19 5/8 x 12 1/2 in. (50 x 31.8 cm)
Julio Gonzalez (1876-1942)
Femme à la longue chevelure, 1940
Pen, ink and wash on paper
12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (31.4 x 24.1 cm)
Albert Weisgerber (1878–1915)
Strand mit Fahnenstange, 1908
Oil on canvas
35 3/5 x 45 4/5 in. (90.5 x 116.5 cm)
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
Bords de Seine, près de l’île Saint-Denis (At the Edge of the Seine, near L’île Saint-Denis), 1872
Oil on canvas
18 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (46 x 65 cm)
Signed lower left: Sisley
August Macke (1887–1914)
(Yachting on Lake Tegern), c. 1910
Oil on cardboard and wood
28 3/8 x 20 in. (72.2 x 50.7 cm)
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Palast im Vorübergehn (Palace in Passing), 1928
Oil on board
12 x 17 13/16 in (30.4 x 45.2 cm)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Schicksale um die Jahres-Wende (Fates at the Turn of the Year), 1922
Watercolor on chalk grounding on paper, surrounded by watercolor and ink on cardboard
13 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. (34.5 x 18.5 cm)
Signed lower left: Klee
Inscribed on cardboard lower right: Schicksale um die Jahres-Wende / 1922 / 113 S CL
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Torwächterstolz (Pride of the Gatekeeper), 1929
Watercolor on paper on illustration board
18 x 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)
Los Angeles County Museum, Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.57)
Paul Klee (1879–1940)
Blumen Terrasse (Flower Terrace), 1937, 146 (R6)
Oil and watercolor on cotton shirt material mounted on plywood
16 x 21 3/4 in. ( 40.6 x 55.2 cm)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Das kranke Herz (The Sick Heart), 1939
Colored paste on cardboard on wooden strainer
16 x 21 1/4 in. (40.6 x 54 cm)
Signed lower right: Klee
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Burg 2 (Castle 2), 1923, 107
Watercolor on paper
12 x 8 9/10 in. (30.5 x 22.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Klee
Dated, numbered, and titled on the artist’s mount, lower center: 1923 107 Burg 2
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
City at the Edge of the World, 1925-1955
Set of 68 carved and painted wooden figures, houses, animals, and a bridge
Dimensions variable: max. height 3 7/8 in. (10 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
(Geranium Pot), 1908
Crayon and ink on paper
10 3/16 x 8 5/16 in. (26 x 21 cm)
Dated lower left: Tues AUG 11 08
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Tall Man), 1909
Watercolor and ink on paper
12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (31.8 x 24.2 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Der rote Geiger, 1921
Watercolor and ink on paper
12 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (30.8 x 24 cm)
Signed lower left: Feininger
Dated lower right: Feb. 1921
Titled lower center: Der rote Geiger
Inscribed bottom left: X L.F.
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Deserted Child, 1915
Watercolor and ink on paper
12 3/8 x 9 1/4 in. (31.5 x 23.5 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Benz, 1924
Watercolor and ink on paper
11 1/8 x 13 1/4 in. (28 x 33.6 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Promenade (Paris), 1908
Oil on canvas
15 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. (39.7 x 29.5 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated on stretcher: Lyonel Feininger "Promenade" August 1908
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Diabolo Players I, 1909
Oil on canvas
15 3/8 x 26 1/8 in. (39.2 x 66.2 cm)
Signed and dated in oil on stretcher: febr.-mar. 1909
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Figures on the Beach), 1912
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 27 5/16 in. (44.5 x 69.2 cm)
Moeller 093 (Hess 084) | Private collection, Germany
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Regentag (Rainy Day), 1915
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (100 x 80 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Locomotive with the Big Wheel, 1915
Oil canvas
22 1/4 x 47 1/4 in. (56.5 x 120 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Nighthawks, 1921
Oil on canvas
23 5/3 x 19 11/16 in. (60 x 50 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Kleine Hafenstadt (Small Harbor Town), 1922
Oil on canvas
15 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (40 x 54 cm)
Signed and dated upper left: Feininger 1922
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Benz (VII), 1924
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 11/16 in. (38 x 47.5 cm)
Moeller 251 (Hess 238) | Private collection
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(White Man with Red Umbrella and Green Lady), 1926
Oil on canvas
22 13/16 x 17 7/8 in. (57.8 x 45.4 cm)
Moeller 283 (not in Hess) | Private collection, Germany
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
Kirche über Stadt (Church Above the Town), 1927
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. (80 x 100 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Der Pulverturm II (The Powder Tower II), 1934
Oil on canvas
19 7/16 x 28 3/8 in. (49.4 x 72.1 cm)
Signed and dated upper right: Feininger 1934
Signed and dated verso on stretcher: Lyonel Feininger 1934
Signed, dated and titled verso on label on stretcher: Lyonel Feininger 1934 “The Powder Tower”
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Niedergrunstedt IV, 1914
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (80 x 100.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Feininger
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Gothen, 1919
Oil on canvas
31 3/16 x 39 1/8 in. (80 x 100 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Feininger 1919
Inscribed and titled verso on stretcher: Lyonel Feininger "Gothen"
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Glasscherbenbild (Broken Glass), 1927
Oil and pencil on canvas
28 1/2 x 25 5/8 in. (72.5 x 65 cm)
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Schären-Kreuzer (Skerry-Cruisers), 1930
Oil on canvas
17 3⁄4 x 29 1⁄2 in. (45 x 75 cm)
Signed and dated upper right: Feininger 30
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Sea at Deep (Baltic, Dunes and Breakwaters), 1939
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 x 39 1/2 in. (80.3 x 100.3 cm)
Signed lower right: Feininger
Signed, dated, inscribed, and titled verso on stretcher: Lyonel Feininger, 1939 (53 x 95 ctm.) Sea at Deep (Baltic)
Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956)
(Weird Moon), 1945
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 in. (60.9 x 91.4 cm)
Moeller 473 (Hess 456) | Private collection, Germany
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956)
Fenris Wolf, 1953-1954
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Inscribed verso: Lyonel Feininger. 1953-54 "Fenris Wolf"
Mark Tobey (1890—1976)
Aerial City, 1950
Watercolor on paper
16 ⅛ x 18 ¾ in. (40.9 x 47.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Tobey 50
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Pisces Borealis, 1950
Tempera on board
11 x 17 in. (28 x 43.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Tobey 50
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Arena of Civilization, 1947
Tempera on board
14 x 19 1/2 in. (35.6 x 49.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Tobey / 47
Inscribed verso: Arena of Civilizations
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
(A Little Piece of Magic or Nothing), 1959
Tempera on prepared paper
3 1/4 x 2 172 in. (8.3 x 6.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower center: Tobey 59
Inscribed on verso by the artist: Happy Birthday 1959 A little piece of magic or nothing
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Prophetic Night, 1956
Tempera on paper on board
24 x 36 1/4 in. (61 x 92 cm)
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Page from the Universal, 1960
Tempera on paper
19 x 25 in. (48.3 x 63.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Tobey, 60
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Untitled, 1962
Tempera and mixed media on paper
35 x 26 1/4 in. (88.9 x 66.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Tobey 1962
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
(Red, Green, Violet, Yellow), 1968
Monotype on paper
33 1/2 x 25 in. (85.1 x 63.5 cm)
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Watercolor Number 1, 1951
Watercolor and ink on rice paper
24 7/8 x 38 1/4 in. (63.2 x 97.2 cm)
Alfred Jensen (1903-1981)
Acrobatic Rectangle Per 2, 1967
Oil on canvas
66 x 48 in. (167.6 x 121.9 cm)
Titled, inscribed and dated on verso
Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
Untitled, 1951
Enamel on paper
7 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. 44.1 x 56.5 cm
Eva Hesse (1936-1970)
Untitled, 1963
Watercolor and ink on paper
22 1/4 x 28 in. (56.5 x 71 cm)
Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Untitled, 1953
Oil on burlap
55 1/2 x 43 1/2 in. (141 x 110.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: K. Appel '53
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto Spaziale Attese, 1964
Water-based paint on canvas
20 7/8 x 25 5/8 in. (53 x 65 cm)
Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Pas Du Cancer, 1961
Oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 64 in. (130.2 x 162.5 cm)
Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Compenetration Opaque, 1963
Oil on canvas
13 1/4 x 18 in. (33.7 x 45.7 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled on verso
David Smith (1906–1965)
Tank Totem X, 1960
Steel painted black, blue, red, ochre, and white
61 3/4 x 45 1/4 x 24 in. (156.9 x 114.9 x 61 cm)
Private Collection
David Smith (1906-1965)
Untitled, 1962
Spray enamel on canvas
95 x 48 in (241.3 x 121.9 cm)
Dated on reverse: Feb-7-1962
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004)
Great American Nude #87, 1966-1967
Acrylic and collage on plywood
45 x 67 in. (114.3 x 170.2 cm)
Signature on reverse: Wesselmann 67
Egon Schiele (1890–1918)
Danaë, 1909
Oil and metallic paint on canvas
31 5/8 x 49 3/8 in. (80.2 x 125.4 cm)
Otto Dix (1891-1969)
Die Schwangere, 1931
Oil on panel
32 5/8 x 24 3/8 in. (83 x 62 cm)
Monogrammed and dated upper right
František Kupka (1871–1957)
Abstract Composition, 1933
Watercolor and gouache and charcoal
19 x 12 7/8 in. (48.3 x 32.7 cm)
František Kupka (1871–1957)
La Montée (Ascent), 1923
Gouache on paper
19 11/16 x 12 in. (50 x 32.3 cm)
SIgned lower right: Kupka
Eric Fischl (b.1948)
The Day the Shah Ran By, 1982
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 in. (91.5 x 121.9 cm)
Yayoi Kusama (b.1929)
Island (No. 5), 1953
Gouache on paper
9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (24.8 x 34.3 cm)
Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Kundabuffer, 1966
Oil on canvas
78 1/2 x 78 1/2 in. (199.4 x 199.4 cm)
Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
Twenty-Three Kenwood Avenue (The New Rosetta Stone), 1963
Pen and ink on paper
26 × 20 in. (66 × 50.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Purchase and partial gift of Achim Moeller in memory of Paul Cummings
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
Homage to the Square: Orange Tone, 1963
Oil on masonite
48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Signed with the artist’s monogram and dated lower right: A63
Signed, titled and dated verso: Homage to the Square: “Orange Tone” Albers 1963
Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
Head I, 1961
Oil on canvas
14 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (37.5 x 31 cm)
George Grosz (1893-1959)
Spaziergang, 1924
Watercolor and gouache and pen and ink
29 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. (75.6 x 57.2 cm)
Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
Head of Man, 1959
Oil on canvas
13 ½ x 11 in. (34.5 x 28 cm)
Otto Mueller (1874—1930)
Knabe vor zwei stehenden und einem sitzenden Mädchen (Boy Before Two Standing Girls and One Sitting Girl), 1918/19
Glue-bound distemper on burlap
47 5/16 x 34 3/8 in. (120 x 88.2 cm)
John Frederick Peto (1854-1907)
A Closet Door, 1904
Oil on canvas
40 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (102.2 x 76.5 cm)
Hans Arp
Framed fragments, 1927
Painted wood
39 2/5 x 31 2/5 x 1 3/5 in. (100 x 80 x 4 cm)
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875)
Le semeur (The Sower), 1865
Pastel and black crayon on light brown paper
14 5/8 x 16 7/8 in. (37.2 x 43 cm)
Private Collection
Maurice B. Prendergast (1858–1924)
Cohasset Beach, c. 1900-05
Watercolor, pencil and pastel on paper
11 x 15 1/2 in. (27.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed lower right: Pendergast
Maurice Denis (1870–1943)
La famille Chausson, villa Papiniano, 1899
Oil on canvas
50 1/4 x 96 1/4 (127 x 244 cm)
Private Collection
Marc Chagall (1887–1985)
La fiancée aux gants noirs, 1929
Gouache on paper on board
26 3/4 x 20 7/8 in. (68 x 53 cm)
Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957)
Nude (Study for a Fresco), 1928
Gouache
25 5/8 x 18 1/8 in. (65.1 x 46 cm)
Private Collection
Franz Marc (1880–1916)
Fabeltier (Fable Creature), 1912
Tempera and watercolor wash over woodcut on cream oriental paper
7 3/4 x 11 1/8 in. (19.8 x 28.3 cm)
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904)
Panier de fleurs, 1892
Oil on canvas
24 ½ x 31 5/8 in. (62 x 80.2 cm.)
Otto Piene (1928-2014)
Licht Ballett (Light Satellite and Light Drum), 1969
Chrome, Glass and electric light bulbs
Diameter 38 cm / Height 45.7 cm, Diameter 124.5 cm
Kurt Seligmann (1900–1962)
Isis, 1944
Oil on canvas
65 x 30 in. (165 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Seligmann 44