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An abstract painting in greens and blues shows many small, card- or brick-like squares and rectangles merging at bottom and encroaching upon the center from the sides, like a wall trying to close itself, or a wall opening. Beyond these shapes is the suggestion of a hazy green sky with clouds and perhaps more shapes.

Towards the Unknown, 1950

Gunther Gerzso

An abstracted painting of a pink girl, arms and legs outstretched, rendered in dark-brown lines and circles against a brown background, with scattered stick drawings around her. The lines are illuminated by surrounding points of color in yellow, orange, green, pink, and beige.

Dancing Girl, 1940

Paul Klee

A work made of twelve gelatin silver prints and one chromogenic print.

Fitcher's Bird, 1982

John Baldessari

A work made of oil on canvas.

Sunlight, c. 1913

Richard E. Miller

A work made of oil and metal fasteners on sandpaper, mounted on canvas, with feathers.

Man, Woman, and Bulls, 1935

Joan Miró

A work made of forged steel.

Around the Void II (Alrededor del vacio II), 1965

Eduardo Chillida

A work made of oil on canvas.

Composition, 1946

Nicolas de Staël

A work made of box construction.

Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain), early 1950s

Joseph Cornell

A work made of box construction.

Untitled (Blue Sand Box), early 1950s

Joseph Cornell

A work made of oil on canvas.

Dead Fowl, 1926

Chaim Soutine

A work made of oil on canvas.

End of the Season, 1945

Jack Butler Yeats

A colorful, lively scene, fragmented and abstracted, of numerous people on wooden floor, rolling green hills behind them. Figures include a nude woman on a bed, an aproned woman with bucket, and man with a long white beard. A figure on the hill at top right does a cartwheel or handstand.

Birth, 1911/12

Marc Chagall

A work made of oil on canvas.

Black and White, 1947

Ad Reinhardt

A work made of himalayan blue granite.

Low Piece (Bench), 1985/86

Scott Burton

A work made of cotton, plain weave; printed.

Panel (Furnishing Fabric), 1924

A multitude of vibrantly colored shapes interweave with one another.

Movement, 1913

Marsden Hartley

A work made of oil on cradled panel.

Landscape in Provence, c. 1930

André Derain

Geometric forms fragment a vertical composition containing a woodgrain table with newspapers, a guitar, and a stemmed wine glass. These objects are vividly painted within a V-shaped fragment at center. Muted, shadowlike versions of the objects appear outside it. The outline of the guitar is repeated in the V in brown, green, blue, and black alongside a fragment of brown floral wallpaper.

Abstraction (Guitar and Glass), 1913

Juan Gris

A work made of gouache and ink on printed paper.

Dada Gauguin, 1920

Max Ernst

A self-portrait oil painting of American artist Archibald John Motley, Jr. He wears a white shirt, a black tie with a diamond horseshoe pin, and a brown jacket; in his left hand he holds a palette, upon which are splotches of paint arranged according to the order of the color wheel; in his right hand he holds a long, slender paintbrush. Motley’s eyes are directed towards the viewer, he has a small mustache, and his light brown skin is contrasted by the black background.

Self-Portrait, c. 1920

Archibald John Motley Jr.

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