Lecture 48: Art between Two Wars—Kandinsky to Picasso
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, oil on canvas, 57 x 35”
(147.3 x 89 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA.
Alberto Giacometti:
Woman with her Throat Cut, 1932 (cast 1949), bronze, 8 x 34 ½ x 25”
(20.3 x 87.6 x 63.5 cm), The Museum of Modern Art, New York City,
New York, USA.
Wassily Kandinsky:
Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons), 1913, oil on canvas, 43 ¼ x 43 ¾”
(109.2 x 110.5 cm), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois, USA.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:
Self-Portrait as a Soldier, 1915, oil on canvas, 27 ½ x 24” (69 x 61 cm),
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA.
Rene Magritte:
The Menaced Assassin (L’assassin menacé), 1926, oil on canvas,
4’ 11 ¼” x 6’ 4 7/8” (150.4 x 195.2 cm), The Museum of Modern Art,
New York City, New York, USA.
Joan Miró:
Deux Personnages, 1935, oil and collage on cardboard,
41 1/16” x 28 1/8” (102 x 74 cm), The Kreeger Museum, Washington,
D.C., USA.
Piet Mondrian:
Composition with Yellow, 1936, oil on canvas, 29 ¼ x 26” (74 x 66 cm),
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Pablo Picasso:
The Dance, 1925, oil on canvas, 7’ x 4’ 8” (215.3 x 142.2 cm),
Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 11’ 5 ½” x 25’ 5 ½” (349.3 x 776 cm),
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina So¿ a, Madrid, Spain.