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Private Collection, Switzerland

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Two rectangular pieces of paper marked with black lines and geometric shapes are stacked against a light wood background in this vertical collage. The top rectangle is dark brown with parallel lines, nested V-shapes, and rounded sections of an abstracted guitar. Brown string nailed to the wood suggests the strings. The other paper is a lighter tan color, and it is offset up and to our left. Lines capture the curved edge of the guitar and the frets on the neck at the top. A peach-colored ribbon decorated with faint, olive-green leaves runs at a slight upward diagonal to the right behind the papers. The panel beneath is light, cream-colored wood with some visible grain.
Pablo Picasso, Guitar, 1926, collage of wallpaper, carpet tacks, nail, paper, string, and charcoal on wood, Chester Dale Fund, 1982.8.1

Guitar

Pablo Picasso · 1926 · collage of wallpaper, carpet tacks, nail, paper, string, and charcoal on wood ·  Accession ID  1982.8.1

A nearly nude, pale-skinned woman rides an oversized seashell being pulled by stylized dolphins in this horizontal painting. Four muscular, tanned men with dark, unruly curly hair surround the shell and play music. The woman sits on a seat made by twisting red coral with her body angled to our right. She turns her face up and to our left, to the sky. She has dark eyes and brows, a heart-shaped face, a cleft in her chin, and her pink lips are parted. Her auburn-brown hair appears gathered at the base of her neck and long tresses lift in the breeze over her right shoulder, to our left. A teardrop-shaped pearl hangs from the ear we can see. A celestial-blue cloth and a translucent white veil wraps over one shoulder and flutters behind her. The cloth then drapes across her back and over her thighs, exposing her soft tummy and rounded hips. The fish-like dolphins pulling the shell have rounded heads and black, glassy eyes. Short fins run the length of their curved backs over dark, olive-green skin. The woman guides them using red, twisted cords looped through their mouths. A pair of musicians are to each side of the shell. To our left and in the lower corner, one man holds a flute to his lips. The outer corners of his eyebrows arch up under a lined forehead. A ring of broad leaves wraps around his waist. Another man behind him blows with cheeks puffed into a shell as he looks at us. In the pair to our right, on the far side of the shell, one man holds a stick, perhaps guiding the vessel, while another, at the front of the grouping, blows into a shell. The man at front wears rings of leaves around his head and waist. The scene is lit starkly from our left, illuminating the woman and casting the rest into shadow. The water around the group is dark, pine green. Rocky mountains dotted with trees and buildings rise in the distance. Ash-gray clouds create diagonal bands moving up and to our right against a muted blue sky.
Bernardo Cavallino, The Triumph of Galatea, c. 1650, oil on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2000.61.1

The Triumph of Galatea

Bernardo Cavallino · c. 1650 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2000.61.1

Augsburg 15th Century, Hans Burgkmair I, Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John, 1493, color woodcut printed from five blocks on vellum, hand-colored with gouache , Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 2008.37.1

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John

Augsburg 15th Century, Hans Burgkmair I · 1493 · color woodcut printed from five blocks on vellum, hand-colored with gouache ·  Accession ID  2008.37.1

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier I, The Grimsel Pass, 1776/1780, pen and black ink with gray wash, Purchased as the Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips, 2016.80.1

The Grimsel Pass

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier I · 1776/1780 · pen and black ink with gray wash ·  Accession ID  2016.80.1

Théo van Rysselberghe, Boulogne, 1900, etching with aquatint in gray-green on cream laid paper, Given in memory of Mrs. Daryl Reich Rubenstein, 2006.50.1

Boulogne

Théo van Rysselberghe · 1900 · etching with aquatint in gray-green on cream laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.50.1

Chaim Soutine, Pastry Chef, c. 1923, oil on canvas, Gift of the Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc., 1971.2.2

Pastry Chef

Chaim Soutine · c. 1923 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1971.2.2

Pierre Bonnard, A Spring Landscape, c. 1935, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.10

A Spring Landscape

Pierre Bonnard · c. 1935 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.10