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A work made of brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper.

Two Monks Contemplating a Skull, c. 1730–35

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Multi-color pastel drawing of sharply distorted human figures.

Two Women's Torsos, 1952

Willem de Kooning

A work made of sketchbook with 59 pages of sketches in colored pencil, crayon and chalk with graphite and ink inscriptions on ivory, pink, green and blue wove papers, bound in black leather.

Sketchbook, 1929–42

James Ensor

A work made of etching on cream wove paper.

Still-Life with Nine Objects, 1954

Giorgio Morandi

A work made of collage composed of colored pastels, charcoal, black chalk, and cut-out painted elements of wove paper on tan tracing paper, squared in graphite and charcoal, tipped onto tannish-green wove paper.

Study for The Rock, 1943/48

Peter Blume

A work made of collage composed of pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache, on cut-out commercially printed papers, and cream wove papers, laid down on gray board prepared with a white gouache ground.

Notes (150 Persons), 1963

Oyvind Fahlström

Watercolor painting of a bright-pink bedroom with skewed perspective and flattened forms. Placed diagonally is a bed with a yellow bedframe and red striped sheets. In the center background is a blue dresser with an oval mirror, and on the right is a doorway through we can see a black-skinned figure holding something, possibly a baby.

Virginia Interior, 1942

Jacob Lawrence

A work made of black conté crayon on ivory laid paper.

Tree Trunks (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884

Georges Seurat

A work made of blue fiber-tipped pen on ivory wove paper.

Untitled, n.d.

Christina Ramberg

A work made of black conté crayon on ivory laid paper.

Seated Woman with a Parasol (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884/85

Georges Seurat

A work made of charcoal with smudging, fixed, on cream laid paper.

Untitled, n.d.

Miyoko Ito

A work made of charcoal with smudging, fixed, on cream laid paper.

Untitled, n.d.

Miyoko Ito

A work made of oil paint, with frottage, wiping, and scraping, on tan wove paper, laid down on cardboard.

Barbarians Marching to the West, 1935

Max Ernst

A work made of collage of strips of cut-and-pasted commercially manufactured colored wove papers.

Study for Seven Color Panels, 1952

Ellsworth Kelly

A work made of collage of cut and pasted papers, prepared with gouache and charcoal, on pieced cream wove newsprint in three parts with charcoal on verso.

Study for a Composition, 1940–41

Piet Mondrian

A work made of etching, lavis and drypoint on ivory wove paper with gilt edges.

A Heroic Feat! With Dead Men!, plate 39 from The Disasters of War, 1812/15, published 1863

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

A work made of watercolor and pen and brush and black ink, with touches of graphite, on cream wove paper.

Cafe Neptune, 1919/20

George Grosz

A work made of graphite on paper.

A Drawing for Midnight, 1951

Dorothea Tanning

A work made of etching on white japanese paper.

Plate Eight, from Petit Traite de Morale, 1968

Hans Bellmer

A work made of etching on white wove paper.

Pink or Green at Night, 1966

Hans Bellmer

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