ahtr modern art 1900–50

Modern Art, 1900–50

Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906.

Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905–6.

Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre, 1905–6. Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908.

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.

Pablo Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques, 1905.

Picasso, Family of

Saltimbanques, 1905. Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906.

Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies

of Avignon), 1907.

Umberto Boccioni, Simultaneous Visions, 1911–2.

Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913.

Hugo Ball performing the sound poem Karawane

at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, 1916.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

Photograph of a destroyed town, Belgium, 1918.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Still Life, 1920.

“Purism fears the bizarre and the original. It seeks the pure element

in order to reconstruct organized paintings that seem to be facts from

nature herself.” — Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret,

“Après le cubisme” (1918)

Gino Severini, Armored Train, 1915 (left) and

Two Pierrots, 1922 (right).

Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 (top) and

Three Women at a Spring, 1921 (bottom).

Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Red,

Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, 1925.

El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1925.

International Congress of Constructivists and DadaistsWeimar, Germany, 1922

Pictured: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Bauhaus), Lucia Moholy-Nagy (Bauhaus), El Lissitzky (Constructivism),

Theo van Doesburg (Neoplasticism/Dada), Tristan Tzara (founder of Zürich Dada),

Hans Arp (Dada), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Dada)

El Lissitzky, The Constructor,

1925.

Herbert Bayer, Poster for Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923.

Marcel Breuer, “Wassily” Chair, 1925–6.

Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.

André Masson, Battle of Fishes, 1926.

Postcard, World's Fair, Paris, 1937: German Pavilion (left); Soviet Pavilion (right).

Picasso, Guernica, 1937.

Exhibition display in the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair.

George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913.

Georgia O’Keeffe, City Light, 1926.

Aaron Douglas, From Slavery Through Reconstruction from the mural cycle

Aspects of Negro Life, 1934.

Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five, 1947.