Thursday, March 1, 2012

Portraits of the Modern European Galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago

 Henri Matisse, The Serf (1900-04) in front of Bathers by a River (1909–10, 1913, 1916–17)

 Pablo Picasso, Half-Length Female Nude [detail], 1906

 Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz [detail of Berthe], 1916

 Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, The Leap of the Rabbit, 1911

Maurice de Vlaminck, Houses at Chatou, c. 1905

 Alexei Jawlensky, Girl with the Green Face, 1910

Henri Matisse, Woman Leaning on Her Hands, 1905 

 Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman (Fernande), autumn 1909

 Pablo Picasso, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, autumn 1910

Gino Severini, Festival in Montmarte, 1913

 Jacques Lipchitz, Seated Figure [detail], 1917

 Alberto Giacometti, Diego Seated in the Studio [detail], 1950

 Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man II [detail], 1960

 Theo van Doesburg, Counter-Composition VIII, 1924

Marc Chagall, The Praying Jew, 1923 (after a 1914 composition)

 Henri Matisse, Lorette with Cup of Coffee [detail], 1916–17

 Constantin Brâncusi, Sleeping Muse, 1910

Giorgio de Chirico, The Philosopher's Conquest, 1913–14

 Marcel Duchamp, Hat Rack, 1964 (1916 original now lost)

Hans Bellmer, Untitled, 1951

 Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1903–04

 Constantin Brâncusi, Suffering, 1907

 Juan Gris, Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1912

 Constantin Brâncusi, Two Penguins, 1911–14

Pablo Picasso, Abstraction: Background with Blue Cloudy Sky, 1930

 Matta, Untitled (Flying People Eaters) [detail], 1942

 Max Ernst, Spanish Physician [detail], 1940

 Oskar Kokoschka, Commerce Counselor Ebenstein [detail], 1908

 Franz Marc, The Bewitched Mill [detail], 1913

Emil Nolde, Red-Haired Girl, 1919

 Victor Brauner, Gemini, 1938

 Henri Matisse, Girl in Yellow and Blue with Guitar, 1939

 Pablo Picasso, Mother and Child, 1921

Henri Matisse, Woman before an Aquarium [detail], 1921–23

 Giorgio de Chirico, The Eventuality of Destiny [detail], 1927

 Constantin Brâncusi, White Negress II (1928), Leda (c. 1920), and Golden Bird (1919/20, base c. 1922)

 Yves Tanguy, The Rapidity of Sleep [detail], 1945

 Paul Klee, Sunset, 1930

Joan Miró, Woman [detail], 1934

 Gino Severini, Still Life (Centrifugal Expansion of Colors), 1916

 Lyonel Feininger, Longeuil, Normandie, 1909

 Alberto Giacometti, Spoon Woman, 1926–27

Pavel Tchelitchew, Untitled, 1948

 Georges Rouault, The Dwarf, 1937

 Aleksei Alekseevich Morgunov, Portrait of Nathalija Gontcharova and Mihajl Larionov [detail of Gontcharova], 1913

 Arshile Gorky, The Plough and the Song (II), 1946

 Ludwig Meidner, Max Herrmann-Neisse [detail], 1913

Le Corbusier, Untitled [detail], 1932

 Jean (Hans) Arp, Growth (1938/60) in front of Joan Miró's The Policeman (1925)

 Leonora Carrington, Juan Soriano de Lacandón [detail], 1964

 John D. Graham, Untitled, 1945

 Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait [detail], 1937

 John D. Graham, Apotheosis [detail], 1955-57

Matta, The Earth Is a Man [detail], 1942

 Joan Miró, Two Personages in Love with a Woman [detail of woman], 1936

 Matta, Untitled (Flying People Eaters) [detail], 1942

 Salvador Dalí, Venus de Milo with Drawers [detail], 1936

Pablo Picasso, The Red Armchair [detail], 1931

 Victor Brauner, Acolo, 1949

 John D. Graham, Untitled, 1944

 Alberto Giacometti, Head, 1934

Yves Tanguy, Untitled, 1928

 Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Forgotten Game), c. 1949

 Salvador Dalí, A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano [detail], 1936 

Victor Brauner, Turning Point of Thirst, 1934

 Salvador Dalí, Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops in Equilibrium upon Her Shoulder, 1934

Surrealist gallery with René Magritte's The Banquet (1958) and a wall of Cornell boxes.



All photos by author. Paintings shown without frames are cropped to varying degrees. Photographs showing only a small portion (half or less) of the original objects are listed as details.

2 comments:

  1. Incredible array of so many excellent works! I’m thoroughly impressed. I love Miró, Giacometti, Gris and Picasso. However, a lot of the other artists’ works are extremely eye–opening. I liked Duchamp’s Hat Rack a lot!

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  2. Outstanding art photography of a wonderful modern collection! The Art Institute is such a treasure!

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