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A work made of wood and pigment.

Female Headdress (Nimba, D'mba, or Yamban), Mid 19th-early 20th century

Baga

Terracotta vessel with a narrow neck and small, curved handles, areas of black indicating lost portions of a battle scene.

Amphora (Storage Jar), 340-330 BCE

Ixion Painter

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Calyx Krater (Mixing Bowl), about 400-380 BCE

Perugia Painter

Dark atmospheric painting of sun, obscured by clouds between two tree groves.

Forest and Sun, 1927

Max Ernst

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

A work made of terracotta, red-figure.

Stamnos (Mixing Jar), about 450 BCE

Chicago Painter

Three-dimensional piece featuring a large eyeball, oriented sideways, on a wooden pin set in a flat piece of yellow wood at upper right, cursive writing in French on the wood. Strands of curly hair and the wooden cutout of a cloud are affixed to the eyeball. Affixed to the wood, at lower left, is a tiny light-skinned hand with fingers reaching upward.

Object, 1936

Claude Cahun

White plaster statue of woman with protruding compartments, each adorned with fur pompom.

Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936

Salvador Dalí

A work made of painted wood.

Manicured Relief, 1930

Jean (Hans) Arp

Large painting on seven panels of dark landscape with small abstract shapes.

Untitled, 1928

Yves Tanguy

A work made of oil on canvas.

Têtes-paysage, 1928

Francis Picabia

A painting of strange and surreal scene in a desert landscape with mountains in the background. The scene features a giraffe that is on fire, disembodied forms and faces, and skeletal figures.

Inventions of the Monsters, 1937

Salvador Dalí

A work made of oil on canvas.

The Earth Is a Man, 1942

Matta

A wooden sculpture of the head and neck of a person, the skin painted gold, a geometrically decorated long wig, and many painted symbols.

Funerary Mask, Late Ptolemaic Period-early Roman Period, 1st century BCE

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of oil on canvas.

Magnetic Mountain, 1948

Kurt Seligmann

A work made of miniature room, mixed media.

E-18: French Salon of the Louis XIV Period, 1660-1700, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

A work made of earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes.

Camel and Rider, Tang dynasty (618–907), first half of 8th century

A work made of pair of six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper.

Southern Barbarians, mid 17th century

An interior space with sliding panel doors at right leading to a glimpse of outdoor greenery. Pale wooden shelves and trim line the room, which features pale blue walls and minimal furniture.

E-31: Japanese Traditional Interior, c. 1937

Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Painted statue of a light-skinned woman in voluminous robes of brown, green, and gold.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1515

German

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