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Painting, heavy in tones of blue-green and burnt orange, depicting a bar scene at night. The men wear top hats and many are bearded; the women are dressed in voluminous gowns and decorative hats. Five people converse in the center of the composition and a woman with a green face dominates the right foreground.

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892/95

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Abstract painting with beige background, lines creating sharp angles, minimal color.

Excavation, 1950

Willem de Kooning

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Crucifixion, 1627

Francisco de Zurbarán

Painting composed of short, dense brushstrokes depicts two domed stacks of wheat that cast long shadows on a field. The angled light indicates either a rising or setting sun.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

Claude Monet

A work made of acrylic and black pencil on canvas.

Green/2 Orange X Painting, 1983

Robert Mangold

Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue.

Woman at Her Toilette, 1875–80

Berthe Morisot

A head-shaped tan and red-orange ceramic vessel with a round, expressionless face atop two squat feet, darker markings around the eyes and down the cheeks.

Abstract Portrait Vessel of a Ruler with Painted Face Resting on Feet, 100 BCE–500 CE

Moche

Painting of a small pond dense with pink water lilies, their roots visible through the water, a railed footbridge arching over the pond and lush, dark green folliage surrounding it.

Water Lily Pond, 1900

Claude Monet

Painting of a cliff overlooking the sea. Two figures in long dresses, one with a parasol, stand on the cliff beneath blue sky.

Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882

Claude Monet

Painting of mother in blue, purple, and green-stripped dress washing child's feet.

The Child's Bath, 1893

Mary Cassatt

A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.

Uxbridge: Across the Colne to Beechy Bucks, April 20, 1922

Charles Paine

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Peeling Paint, Jerome, Arizona, 1949

Aaron Siskind

Loosely painted scene of a brown-haired girl in her nightgown standing in a dark room, gazing out a window into a brighter night, her face unseen and her hand drawing back the pale curtain. Light blues and pink whites dominate the girl and the window, while deep browns, blues, and greens color the darkened portions of her room.

The Girl by the Window, 1893

Edvard Munch

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

Blue and brown Cubist painting of Picasso with painterdz palette.

Portrait of Pablo Picasso, January–February 1912

Juan Gris

Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven amongst multitude of angels.

The Assumption of the Virgin, 1577–79

Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco

A work made of oil on canvas.

Water Painting IX, 1974

Joseph Raffael

Painting of crucifixion, surrounded by scenes of Nazi violence against the Jewish community.

White Crucifixion, 1938

Marc Chagall

Painting of figures construction project amid smoky destruction, middle is pink crater.

The Rock, 1944–48

Peter Blume

Painting, mostly in shades of blue, of a thin, bent, older man wearing ragged clothes and sitting cross-legged playing a guitar positioned upright in his lap.

The Old Guitarist, late 1903–early 1904

Pablo Picasso

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