From caption: La ninfa Echo; from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org) (11-2011): The Nymph Echo / Max Ernst (French, born Germany. 1891-1976) / Paris 1936. Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 3/4" (46.3 x 55.2 cm). Purchase.
From the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (11-2011): Bed / Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) / 1955. Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 6' 3 1/4" x 31 1/2" x 8" (191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm). Gift of Leo...
"Dali and Gala had every reason to be grateful to America, which had showered them with dollars. Here, as Columbus, the painter kneels on the shore, holding aloft a silver crucifix. Gala appears once more as Virgin Mary, on the banner."...
First version; "Dali's atomic variation on the Assumption, with Gala as tutelary goddess of Port Lligat." (Caption); Dali's first 'religious painting', designed to ingratiate himself with Church and State, was The Madonna of Port Lligat,...
"The painting belonged to Edward James. The 'paranoiac-critical town' is composed of elements principally from Cadaqués and Palamós." (Caption); "The reference was to Outskirts of the Paranoiac-Critical Town, one of Dali's finest...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Mixed media; Fantasy; Children; Girls; Youth; Dresses; Men; Adults; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Loss of consciousness; Running; Lifting & carrying; Birds; Animals; Flying; Architecture; Architectural elements;...
Oil on wood with wood construction; from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org) (11-2011): Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale / Max Ernst (French, born Germany. 1891-1976) / 1924. Oil on wood with painted wood elements and frame, 27 1/2 x...
Sculpture of two interlocking parts, galvanized plaster for the wedge and dental plastic for the base; The following descriptive notes are from: Schwarz, Arturo. The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. 2nd rev. ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970,...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
Excerpts from catalog entry, p.336: Öl auf Karton, auf Leinwand aufgezogen, 98 x 70 cm; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Gezeigt auf der 2. NKVM-Ausstellung 1910, außer Katalog.
"The progression of drawings here shows the steps used by Benin sculptors." Elements included: clay core; wax; tool; wax rods (drains) and wax cup; layer of fine sand; layer of clay; molten metal; draining wax; finished cast. (Stokstad,...
