"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works; Colors; Mental states; Spiritual life; Paradise; End of the world; Prophecy; Biblical events; Animals; Horses; Horseback riding; Riding; Sitting
Excerpts from catalog entry, p.344: Öl auf Leinwand, 97.5 x 131.2 cm; Bez. u.r.: Kandinsky 1910; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Die große Endfassung der Komposition II, 1910, 200 x 275 cm (im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört) wurde auf...
Pencil drawing; "This drawing, which at nearly three feet in height is very large for Giacometti, is one of an enormous number that he produced throughout his life. His sculptures and paintings of the figure, similarly attenuated, are far...
"Gala-Leda rendered 'in accordance with the modern "nothing touches" theory of intra-atomic physica' (Dali)." (Caption); Dali himself was only too happy to admit his debt to Gala. In the early 1930s he had begun to sign his...
