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.
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.)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
Nighthawks, 1921
Oil on canvas
23 5/3 x 19 11/16 in. (60 x 50 cm)
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)
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)
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)
Regentag (Rainy Day), 1915
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. (100 x 80 cm)
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)
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)
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 ½ x 25 5/8 in. (72.5 x 65 cm)
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)
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)
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"
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)
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)
Prophetic Night, 1956
Tempera on paper on board
24 x 36 1/4 in. (61 x 92 cm)
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)
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)
Untitled, 1951
Enamel on paper
7 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. 44.1 x 56.5 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
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)
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