Provenance

Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc.

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Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: Light Rising, 1950, altered 1959, oil on wood fiberboard, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, 1992.28.1

Study for Homage to the Square: Light Rising

Josef Albers · 1950, altered 1959 · oil on wood fiberboard ·  Accession ID  1992.28.1

Arshile Gorky, The Plow and the Song, 1946, charcoal pencil, charcoal with erasing, pastel, graphite pencil, and spatters of oil paint on wove paper, Gift of the Avalon Foundation, 1971.58.1

The Plow and the Song

Arshile Gorky · 1946 · charcoal pencil, charcoal with erasing, pastel, graphite pencil, and spatters of oil paint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1971.58.1

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Apostles' Creed, 1770s/1780s, pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper, Gift of Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.92.1

The Apostles' Creed

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1770s/1780s · pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.92.1

Two gears with interlocking sprockets, painted in shades of cobalt, slate, and sky blue and shown against a black background, nearly fill this abstracted, vertical work. A large gear, situated to our upper right, takes up most of the composition and extends off the top and right edges. It is marked with a number 2, and the much smaller gear, to our lower left, is labeled with a gold number 1 at its center. Circles and straight and curving lines cluster around and over the gears, and are drawn in metallic gold against the dark background but continue in black where they cross the gears. An inscription in gold capital letters across the top reads, “MACHINE TOURNEZ VITE.” In the lower left, it reads, “1 FEMME” and “2 HOMME.” The artist signed the work in lower right in metallic gold letters: “Picabia.”
Francis Picabia, Machine tournez vite (Machine Turn Quickly), 1916/1918, brush and ink with watercolor and shell gold over a 19th-century French lithographic illustration; laid down on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1989.10.1

Machine tournez vite (Machine Turn Quickly)

Francis Picabia · 1916/1918 · brush and ink with watercolor and shell gold over a 19th-century French lithographic illustration; laid down on canvas ·  Accession ID  1989.10.1