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Miniature room with two tall windows framing a small Cubist painting and a fireplace, two golden scuptures set before the windows. At right, a small red couch is flanked by two Lucite chairs. At left, an open glass door is flanked by oak chaises with red cushions. A plush cream rug fills the space.

A37: California Hallway, c. 1940, c. 1940

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of oil on canvas.

Farm near Duivendrecht, c. 1916

Piet Mondrian

A work made of oil on linen.

Untitled XI, 1975

Willem de Kooning

A work made of glass.

Inlay Depicting the Face of a King, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Against red background four men stand around another bound naked to a chair, his head covered.

Interrogation II, 1981

Leon Golub

A work made of woodblock print.

Stone Bodhisattva in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971

Hiratsuka Un'ichi

A work made of color woodblock print.

Matsue, Izumo, from the series Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series (Tabi miyage dai sanshū), 1924

Kawase Hasui

A light-brown, kettlebell-shaped vessel with a top spout features a red line drawing of a seated warrior facing right, wearing a stylized patterned dress and holding a weapon.

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Fineline Enthroned Warrior Motif, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

A work made of pen lithograph on tan wove paper.

Plate five. from Long Live Fashion, Down with Art, 1919, published 1920

Max Ernst

A work made of paper.

Gavin Turk New Art Close-Up 2, 2004

Graphic Thought Facility

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Kylix (Drinking Cup), about 460 BCE

Penthesilea Painter

Conical-shaped bowl with sides angled outward, a smooth black interior, and a bumpy exterior that is black along the rim and graduates to a reddish-brown color.

Bowl with Textured Surface Decoration, 900–1000

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A work made of lithograph in black on buff wove paper.

The Carpenter, from Arts et Métiers, 1838

Bernard Gaillot

A work made of oil and sand on four joined canvases, with artist's painted frame.

Corpse and Mirror II, 1974/75

Jasper Johns

Bone-colored bowl with interior decorations of bone-colored zig-zags, diamonds, and lines on a black background, a circle at the interior base.

Bowl with Bold Black-on-White Diamond and Zizgag Motifs, 950–1400

Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)

A photo of dark room shows one large projection on the wall to the left and on the wall to the right two pedestals with two monitors stacked on top of both. Each screen shows a different view of a red-wigged, red-nosed clown in a striped outfit.

Clown Torture, 1987

Bruce Nauman

A graphic, grotesque painting of a balding, bug-eyed man with white hair and decaying flesh and open boils in dominant shades of gray and magenta, his clothing tattered and torn. Behind him, a crumbling home is suggested through objects and voids of space rendered in swirls of prismatic colors like those reflected by an oil slick: dark purples, greens, blues.

Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943–44

Ivan Albright

A work made of fluorescent paint and silkscreen ink on linen.

Flowers, 1964

Andy Warhol

Vibrantly colored landscape painting of houses built on a steep hill surrounded by thin, bent trees and a narrow trail or road. Bright orange, red, pink, green, and yellow illuminate the scene.

Landscape at L'Estaque, 1906

Georges Braque

A work made of oil on cardboard.

Houses at Murnau, 1909

Vasily Kandinsky

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