Caption information: Liegender Halbakt nach rechts mit aufgestelltem rechten Bein [Reclining half-nude (seen from the right) with the right leg raised (drawn up)] / um 1914 [c. 1914] / roter Farbstift [red crayon; color pencil] [Note:...
Caption information: Liegender Frauenakt [Reclining female nude]/ um 1912 [c. 1912] / Bleistift, weiss gehoht [pencil with white chalk (white highlight; heightened with white)] / sig.: u. r. Gustav Klimt [signature (signed): Lower right: Gustav...
Caption information: Kniender weiblicher Akt in gekauerter Stellung [Kneeling female nude in crouching position] / um 1917 [c. 1917]/ Studie zu “Leda” [Study of “Leda”] / Bleistift [pencil] / u. r.: Nachlassstempel [lower right: estate...
Caption information: Zwei liegende Frauen in Umarmung [Two women lying in an embrace] / um 1907 [c. 1907] / roter Farbstift [red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color pencil” (Amer.); “crayon” or “color...
Caption information: Schwangere Frau nach links [Pregnant woman facing left (seen from the left)] / um 1908 [c. 1908] / Bleistift, roter und blauer Farbstift [pencil, red and blue crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color...
Caption information: Stehender weiblicher Akt nach rechts [Standing female nude seen facing right] / um 1915 [c. 1915] / Bleistift [pencil] / sig.: u. r. Gustav Klimt [signature: lower right Gustav Klimt] / Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien...
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].
Caption information: Liegender Halbakt mit Strumpfen [Reclining half-nude with stockings] / um 1910 [c. 1910] / Bleistift [pencil] / u. r.: Nachlassstempel [lower right: estate stamp] / Sammlung E. Wuthenow, Madrid [collection of E. Wuthenow,...
Encaustic and collage on canvas with plaster casts; Information from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (10/2011): "1955. Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front,...
Description in Kozloff: Copper disk with metal stand and electric motor; Information from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (11-2011): Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics), Paris, 1925. Painted papier-mâché demisphere fitted on...
"The text on the label punningly translates as 'beautiful breath/veil water'. Duchamp's female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, peers out from above it." (Caption, p.54); "Among Duchamp's strangest gestures had been the creation of a female...
Painting destroyed during the London blitz (photograph shows the artist, 1938, [and Fantomas, a character in the early twentieth-century pulp fiction novels by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain.]). The Savage (Le barbare): c. 1928.
"This statue combines two antique fragments: Bacchus's torso and Silenus's torso and head, along with sixteenth-century additions including Bacchus's head, arms, and legs, and Silenus's arms and legs. The restoration is probably the work of...
Paintings; Acrylic paintings; History; Political issues; Apartheid; Imperialism; Social classes; War; War casualties; Graves; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Crosses; Cemeteries; Monuments & memorials; Soldiers; Military personnel; Military...
"Terry Atkinson, like David Hockney, came from a working-class background in Yorkshire, England. However, his affiliations when he eventually moved to London were with Conceptualism rather than Pop. Whilst Conceptualism had been international...
Sculpture; Urns; Death & burial; Containers; Soldiers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Death & burial; Friezes (Ornamental bands); Cartouches; Pediments; Tympana; Architectural elements; Inscriptions; Names;...
"The front of this rectangular urn is decorated with two friezes of hearts and darts. Smooth strips frame the decoration along the top and bottom rims and emphasize the container's shape. The central surface of such objects was inscribed. This...