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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

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

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

White Crucifixion, 1938

Marc Chagall

A rather stark, clean-lined painting shows a fireplace mantle topped with a clock against a bare wall with wood paneling. From the back wall of the fireplace, a black locomotive emerges, belching smoke and riding an unseen track in the the air.

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed), 1938

René Magritte

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

The Rock, 1944–48

Peter Blume

Painting of hanging, ripped apart animal carcass with seated man.

Figure with Meat, 1954

Francis Bacon

Painting of a beach on a cloudy day with several sailboats on the water, a few rowboats on the shore, and two groupings of people on the sand.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1867

Claude Monet

Landscape painting featuring a wavy tree tree in the foreground and a watermill with a red roof adjacent to a river at right. Colors are subdued earth tones, the foliage a dark green and the river a muddy brown. Water flows through the mill wheel under a cloudy sky of gray and blue. Three individuals can be seen in the distance at left.

The Watermill with the Great Red Roof, c. 1665

Meindert Hobbema

Handkerchief

Handkerchief, 1875-1900

Oriental Print Works

A young woman peers out to the right from from a Dutch door whose bottom half is closed. She wears a brown dress with a corset and a red beaded necklace.

Young Woman at an Open Half-Door, 1645

Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn

Impressionist sea landscape, tan houses, blue ocean, distant mountains.

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque, c. 1885

Paul Cezanne

Painting of several light-skinned people gathered around a table in front of a gilded mirror, playing instruments. At left, seated next to a woman in an off-the-shoulder gown, a man in a plumed hat plays a lute. At center right, another man plays a cello, while a dog and cat eat from a dish underfoot.

The Family Concert, 1666

Jan Steen

Painting of a crowded bar scene where African American people dance and drink together, some sitting at the bar, some at small tables, and many on the dance floor.

Nightlife, 1943

Archibald John Motley Jr.

Painting mostly in soft yellow, green, purple, blue, and pink of two wheatstacks, the right nearer than the left, in a country landscape at sunset.

Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn), 1890–91

Claude Monet

Painting resembles a blurry, blue photograph of woman wearing a shiny dress.

Woman Descending the Staircase (Frau die Treppe herabgehend), 1965

Gerhard Richter

Large painted portrait of Mao wearing eyeshadow, blush, blue backdrop.

Mao, 1972

Andy Warhol

Painting of close-up cross, mountain, red, yellow sky backdrop.

Black Cross, New Mexico, 1929

Georgia O'Keeffe

Bright landscape painting featuring spindly trees with lush leaves surrounded by light-green foliage, a small town visible between the trees at center, and a calm blue sea in the background.

Bordighera, 1884

Claude Monet

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