"Artaud's late drawings have been a comparatively recent discovery. His poetry and writings on the theatre were better known previously. In the latter respect, his notions of catharsis had a decisive impact on the Body Art of the 1970s. After...
"As an African-American who is able to pass as 'white', Piper has written eloquently of the social and institutional prejudices that surface when she divulges her racially mixed identity. In a text entitled 'Flying' of 1987 she wrote: 'I am...
"Autograph drawing. Study in pencil and pen for a cornice (at the left above) and for various movements of the 'Nudes' on the Sistine Chapel Vault. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. 75 F. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited...
Drawings; Graphite drawings; Pencil works; Seascape drawings; Seascapes; Seas; Oceans; Water; Bodies of water
"Born in Riga in 1938, and transplanted to America in 1949, Celmins has only recently become well known. Her strangely detached, unlocated subjects suggest a radical retreat from the concerns of modern life. Perhaps they relate to her early...
"In her consistent use of grids Agnes Martin participated in a tradition in twentieth-century art stretching from the Cubists and Mondrian to her Minimalist contemporaries. The grid was a non-hierarchical and non-referential structure. It...
"Picasso did forty-five studies for Guernica. The one illustrated here shows the dying horse and the mother with the dead child. They have been changed in the final painting, although they retain their basic character. The Cubist neck of the...
"Soon after the creation of Composition VII, in late November, Kandinsky painted Dreamy Improvisation [Träumerische Improvisation] on 3 December 1913 followed by Light Picture [Helles Bild] and Black Lines [Schwarze Striche] in mid-December....
Caption information: Bildnis einer Dame mit entblosstem Oberkorper [Portrait of a Lady with bare torso (upper part of the body)] / 1907/08 / Bleistift, blauer und roter Farbstift [pencil, blue and red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift”...
Caption information: Bleistift [Pencil] / sig. u. dat.: alfred leslie 1966 [Signed and dated: alfred leslie 1966] / Noah Goldowsky Gallery and R. Bellamy.
Caption information: Bleistift [Pencil] / sig. u. dat.: alfred leslie 1970 [Signed and dated: alfred leslie 1970] / Noah Goldowsky Gallery and R. Bellamy.
Caption information: Bleistift, Buntstift, Landkarte [Pencil, colored pencil, land art] / sig. u. dat.: Christo 1970 [Signed and dated: Christo 1970] / Beisitz des Kunstlers [Property (possession) of the artists].
Caption information: Bleistift, Emaillefarbe [Pencil, color enamel] / sig. u. dat.: o. r. Christo 1969-70 [Signed and dated: upper right: Christo 1969-70] / Besitz des Kunstlers [Property (possession) of the artists].
Caption information: Damenbildnis mit Kappe, von vorn [Portrait of a Lady with a cap, from the front] / um 1917 [c. 1917]/ Bleistift [pencil] / u. l.: Nachlassstempel [lower left: estate stamp] / Nationalgalerie Prag [National Gallery, Prague].
