Modern Art 1900–1920

On View: East Building, Mezzanine

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A nude boy or young man sits on a gray box and hunches over his foot, next to a second nude boy who stands facing us in this loosely painted, vertical scene. Both boys have light skin with a yellow cast, and their bodies are outlined with delicate brown lines. They both have short-cropped brown hair, and their facial features are sketched in with brown paint. To our left, the boy sitting on the box looks down at his right foot, on our left, which he holds up on the box with both hands. Next to him, the second boy stands with his arms down by his sides and he looks off into the distance to our right. The room is undefined but has a pale, rust-red floor. Behind them, a terracotta-red urn and jug sit on a platform, possibly in a niche in the silvery-gray wall. Brushstrokes are visible throughout. The artist signed the painting in red letters in the upper left corner: “Picasso.”

Two Youths

Pablo Picasso

1906

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1963.10.197

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
Glimpses of body parts, bits of a stringed instrument, and hints of a background are fragmented and splintered in this vertical, abstracted painting. Painted within overlapping, geometric shapes, recognizable features like a nose, lips, eyes, and ears are at the top center above a chest, an arm, a ruffled shirt front, and bow tie. The scroll, neck, and bridge of an instrument, perhaps a cello, are below. A vase of flowers is in the background to the left, and a piano keyboard, music stand, and paper titled “Malvina Vass” are to the right. Most of the composition is painted in slate and celestial blue and smoky and nickel gray with some touches of brown, black, and muted red. The artist signed and dated the painting near the lower left corner, “Marcoussis 1914.”

The Musician

Louis Casimir Ladislas Marcoussis

1914

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1963.10.163

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
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We look across a sandy colored beach or walkway that stretches away from us to our right and then turns ninety degrees to our left in the distance, to enclose a teal-green body of water filled with rows of small rowboats in this nearly square, stylized landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with vibrant colors, in jewel-toned topaz and royal blue, emerald and mint green, pale orchid purple, golden yellow, cream white, and crimson red. The boats grouped along the beach close to us are lined up in a row along the beach to our right, punctuated by a few vertical masts. The beach across from us in the distance is lined with a cotton candy-pink, pale lavender-purple, sage-green, and pumpkin-orange warehouses in front of a line of cobalt-blue mountains along the horizon, which comes nearly to the top edge of the canvas. The sky is pastel purple, green, yellow, and peach above. The artist signed the work in dark paint in the lower right corner: “Braque.”

The Port of La Ciotat

Georges Braque

1907

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1998.74.6

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
A row of spire-like structures of different heights is silhouetted in azure blue against a soft pink, yellow, peach, and lavender-purple sunset and reflected in a rippling river in this nearly square landscape painting. Along the horizon, the buildings stretch from our right, almost fully across the canvas, and are painted with vertical brushstrokes in cool shades of blue. The sky behind the towers seems hazy with intermingling, pastel-colored clouds. The buildings are reflected in the river, which fills the bottom third of the painting. The surface of the water is painted with short, horizontal brushstrokes in azure blue for the buildings, and apricot, rose, and marigold orange for the sky’s reflection. A streak and smudge of olive-green paint on the water represents a person in a boat near the center of the painting. The artist signed and dated the work in the same olive color at the lower right: “Claude Monet 1903.”

The Houses of Parliament, Sunset

Claude Monet

1903

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1963.10.48

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
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A woman’s face and neck are roughly modeled in this dark green, freestanding bronze sculpture. In this photograph, her face is angled to our right. She looks down, chin tucked back into her neck. She has deep-set eye sockets, a thin, blade-sharp nose, and her small mouth is closed, the corners downturned. Light from our left gleams off some of the surfaces, especially in the choppy hair and along the edge of her nose. A long diagonal ridge on the right side of her neck, our left, suggests a tendon stretching as she turns her head. Her neck acts as the sculpture's base. The background lightens from pale gray along the top to white along the bottom, where the sculpture casts a faint shadow to our right.

Head of a Woman (Fernande)

Pablo Picasso

model 1909, cast before 1932

Bronze  Accession ID  2002.1.1

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
Shown from the thighs up, a light-skinned man stands facing us in front of a harvest-yellow background in this loosely painted vertical portrait. The man’s body faces us, and he looks out with dark, heavy-lidded eyes under low, angular brows. His skin is pink on his full cheeks and streaked with light green on his forehead. A wide brown moustache droops over a prominent, square chin. His short brown is neatly combed over his head. His collared, long-sleeved white shirt is painted with mostly vertical strokes. A short vivid red tie falls about halfway down his chest, and he wears dark pants. His right arm, to our left, is planted on that hip, and his other arm hangs by his side. The man’s features and his clothing are outlined with teal green. The name “PETRVS MANACH” is painted in forest-green letters in the upper left corner of the rich yellow background. The artist also signed the work in the lower right corner, “Picasso.”

Pedro Mañach

Pablo Picasso

1901

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1963.10.53

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
This painting shows a seaside scene from an elevated point of view. The horizon is placed in the upper third of the painting, where the turquoise-and-green sea meets the sky, which is a blend of green, teal, peach, and lavender. Small sailboats can be seen sailing across the sea, and a few long, white poles appear to stick out of the water. To the left of center, a person in a white rowboat faces the shore, holding two long yellow oars. Closer to us, a group of people gather along the edge of the water, facing away from us. They are in colorful attire, including dresses, coats, and trousers, with some carrying parasols. Their clothes are in shades of red, orange, yellow, green, and white. The ground they stand on has patches of green, gray, yellow, orange and red, and on the left is a collection of colorful flags. The brushstrokes are expressive and visible, especially in the ground and sea. In the bottom right corner, the beige paper is visible on the edges of a section of yellow and orange ground.

The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

Raoul Dufy

1906

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1998.74.3

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
The painting shows three people at the beach. On the right is a woman in a green one-shoulder garment with her back to us. She has pale skin and dark hair, and under her green garment is a brighter green outfit similar to a bathing suit. Next to her, on the left, is a man with peach-and-orange skin wearing a dark, one-shoulder outfit. His facial features are geometric and outlined with thick black lines. The man’s body is facing the left, but his head is turned to look at the woman in green. A third person is partially hidden behind these other two. The background includes a blue sky with white clouds and brown rocks in the vibrant, green-blue ocean.

Bathing Scene (The Green Cloak)

Max Beckmann

1934

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  2006.164.1

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
This painting features various shapes and lines in dark blue and pink against a pale green-and-yellow background. On the left, dark blue masses resemble rowboats and tall ships with smokestacks and white and pink puffs of smoke. The boats float on a tan-and-yellow surface with small blue dots. In the background there are light green vertical lines and square shapes, behind which is a sky in shades of light green and light blue. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible.

View of the Thames

André Derain

1906

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1985.64.12

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
A shiny, fern-green ceramic pitcher holds four cream-white and two ruby-red peonies on a brown tabletop, presumably wood, in this vertical, stylized still life painting. This was created with loose, visible brushstrokes so some details are difficult to make out. The four peonies clustered to our right are painted with textured strokes of cream white and pale butter yellow. The two red flowers to our left are similarly painted with long, parallel strokes. The leaves are painted with moss and sage green, with vivid royal blue for the shadows. The pitcher has a wide mouth over only slightly pinched neck, and a handle is situated to our right. Cobalt-blue, widely spaced, vertical stripes are flanked by fawn-brown zigzagging lines. The tabletop is painted as a field of brown, separated from the background with a line of navy blue. The background is made with long strokes in aqua, light blue, and celery green that curve around the flowers in the upper right corner. The artist signed the painting with dark blue paint in the lower right corner, “Piicasso,” adding an extra I.

Peonies

Pablo Picasso

1901

Oil on hardboard mounted on plywood  Accession ID  1981.41.1

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
Two nude women, painted in vibrant coral peach and bubblegum pink, stand under a red umbrella in a landscape in this stylized, vertical painting. The scene is painted with areas of flat or streaked color with visible brushstrokes throughout. The women and umbrella take up most of the picture. The woman on our left stands facing our right almost in profile. Her skin is vivid peach. Slashes of red outline her breasts, groin, and legs. Her hair, eyes, and eyebrows are painted with black strokes. She stands on one leg and stretches the other in front of her to overlap the far foot of the other woman. The first woman hooks her arm through the elbow of the other, who stands facing us to our right. This second woman has vivid pink skin also outlined in red. Her face is a darker shade of pink, resembling a mask, and her eyes are parallel strokes of black and blue. Her left arm, on our right, hangs by her side, and she holds the umbrella with the other arm. She either wears a hat or her hair is painted with alternating bands of black, red, and brown, and there is a red flower or bow to one side. Black lines in the candy-red umbrella suggest a rib on the underside and the handle. Cobalt-blue branches of a tree above the women has blue and green leaves. The landscape beyond them is made up of bands of acid green, yellow, saturated blue, and cool green.

Two Girls under an Umbrella

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1910

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1992.58.1

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217
A patchwork of earth-toned rectangles, cubes, and prism-like shapes surrounded by pools of cool aquamarine and silvery gray fill this square, nearly abstract painting. Brushstrokes, which are mostly horizontal, and dashes are visible throughout. A curving, pointed form at the lower center could be a boat with a tall, fawn-brown mast. It is surrounded by forms suggestive of rocks, other boats, or structures against a watery horizon. Most of the shapes around the boat are leather brown, tan, apricot orange, muted violet, or steel gray. Another pole, also suggestive of a mast, angles up from near the lower left corner, about a third of the way into the composition. Many of the shapes are outlined with charcoal-gray lines. Horizontal and blended strokes in pewter gray and icy blue at the upper corners suggest the sky.

Harbor

Georges Braque

1909

Oil on canvas  Accession ID  1992.3.1

On View: East Building Mezzanine, Gallery E217

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