Art in New York

Post-Impressionism Modern Sculpture

Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1917 (cast 192528), bronze, 18 X 12 X 2 7, Kunsthaus, Zurich.

Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-88, bronze, 7 11 X 8 2 X 6 6, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., various casts.

Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-88, bronze, 7 11 X 8 2 X 6 6, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., various casts.

Auguste Rodin, Monument to Balzac, 1897-98 (cast 1954), bronze, 9 10 High, MoMA, New York.

Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1879-89, bronze, 28" High, various casts.

Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1879-89, bronze, 28" High, various casts.

Auguste Rodin, The Kiss, 1886-98, marble, 75 X 48 X 46", wood, 23 X 18.

Henri Matisse, The Back I (1909), II (1913), III (191617) and IV, (1930), bronze, MoMA, New York.

Constantin Brancusi, Mlle Pogany, 1913.

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss, 1916, limestone, 23 X 13 X 10".

Constantin Brancusi, Sleeping Muse, 1909-11, bronze, 105/8 long, Musee National dArt Moderne, Paris.

Constantin Brancusi, Adam and Eve, 1916-21, oak, chesnut, and limestone, 7 10 high, Solomon Guggenheim Museum.

Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925, marble.

Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1925, bronze, 54" High (numerous casts/also carved in marble).

Art in New York

Post-Impressionism Fauvism

Henri Matisse, Luxe, calme et volupte, 1904-05, Oil on canvas, 37X 46, Private collection, Paris, France.

Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, Oil on canvas, 21 X 18 1/8, Collection Mrs, John Hay Whitney, NY.

Henri Matisse, The Green Stripe / Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1905, Oil canvas, 16 X 12 , Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

Henri Matisse, Woman with the Hat / Portrait of Madame Matisse, 1905, Oil on canvas, 32 X 23, Collection Mrs. Walter A. Haas, San Francisco.

Henri Matisse, Joy of Life / Bonheur de vivre, 1905-06, Oil on canvas, 5 6 X 7 9, Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania.

Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red / The Dessert, 1908-09, Oil on canvas, 71 X 96.

Henri Matisse, Dance I, 1909, Oil on canvas, 8' 7 X 12' 10".

Henri Matisse, Dance II, 1910, Oil on canvas, 8' 5 X 12' 2, Hermitage Museum, St. Petesburg.

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911, Oil on canvas, 5 11 X 7 2, MoMA, New York.

Henri Matisse, La Serpentine, 1909, bronze, 22 X 11 X 7".

Henri Matisse Blue Nude 1907

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907, Oil on canvas, 3 X 4 7 1/8, Baltimore Museum of Art.

Henri Matisse, Decorative Figure on an Ornamental Background, 1927, Oil on canvas, Musee National dArt Moderne, Paris.

Andre Derain, London Bridge, 1906, Oil on canvas, 26 X 39".

Andre Derain, Westminster Bridge, 1906, Oil on canvas, 31 1/8 X 39 1/8, Galerie Jeu de Paume, Louvre.

Andre Derain, Turning Road, LEstaque, 1906.

Maurice de Vlaminck, Portrait of Andre Derain, 1905, Oil on canvas, 10 X 8.

Art in New York

Post-Impressionism German Expressionism: Die Brucke

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait with Model, 1910-26, Oil on canvas, 4 10 5/8 X 3 3, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin, 1913, Oil on canvas, 47 X 35 7/8, MoMA, NY.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Head of Ludwig Schames, 1918, woodcut, 22 7/8 X 10 1/4, MoMA, NY.

Emil Nolde, The Last Supper, 1909, Oil on canvas, 32 5/8 X 41 , Nolde Foundation, Seebull.

Emil Nolde, Prophet, 1912, woodcut, 14 X 10.

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with an Amber Necklace, 1906, Oil on canvas, 23 3/8 X 19, Kunstmuseum, Basel.

Art in New York

Austrian Secession/ Neue Sacklichkeit

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1907-08, Oil on canvas, 5 10 square, Oesterreische Galerie, Vienna.

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1908-11, Oil on canvas, 78 X 78".

Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest (the Winds Bride), 1914, Oil on canvas, 5 11 X 7 3, Kunstmuseum, Basel.

Kathe Kollwitz, Death Seizing a Woman, from Death series, 1934, lithograph, 20 X 14.

Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait with Red Scarf, 1917, Oil on canvas, 31 X 23.

Max Beckmann, Night, 1918-19, Oil on canvas, 4 43/8 X 5 , Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfalen, Dusseldorf.

Max Beckmann, Departure, 1932-33, Oil on canvas / triptych, MoMA, NY.

George Grosz, Dedication to Oskar Panizza, 1917-18, Oil on canvas, 55 X 43 5/16".

George Grosz, The Pillars of Society, 1926, Oil on canvas, 78 X 42.

Art in New York

Post-Impressionism German Expressionism: The Blaue Reiter

The more frightening the world becomes ... the more art becomes abstract."
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul. Color is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically." Colors produce a corresponding spiritual vibration, and it is only as a step towards this spiritual vibration that the elementary physical impression is of importance.

Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
--Wassily Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky, Blue Mountain, 1908-09, Oil on canvas, 41 X 38".

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition IV, 1911, Oil on canvas, 5 2 3/8 X 8 11 , Kunstsammlung Nordrheim-Westfalen, Dusseldorf.

Vasily Kandinsky, sketch for Composition No. 2, 1910, Oil on canvas, 38 X 51.

Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation Number 28, 1912, Oil on canvas, 44 X 63.

Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 30, 1913.

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.

Vasily Kandinsky, Black Lines, 1913, Oil on canvas, 4 3 X 4 3 5/8, Solomon Guggenheim Museum.

Vasily Kandinsky, White Line, 1920.

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition No. 8, 1923, Oil on canvas, 55 X 79.

Vasily Kandinsky, Circles within a Circle, 1923, Oil on canvas, 33 X 37.

Franz Marc, AnimalsFate, 1913, Oil on canvas, 6'4 X 8'9.

Franz Marc, Blue Horses, 1911, Oil on canvas, 6 4 X 8 9 , Kunstmuseum, Basel.

Franz Marc, Stables, 1913-14.

Franz Marc, Fighting Forms, 1914, Oil on canvas, 35 X 51 .

Paul Klee, Individualized Altimetry of Stripes, 1930, pastel fixed with flour paste, 18 X 13 5/8, Kunstmuseum, Bern.