Various Artists, Jean (Hans) Arp, Giacomo Balla, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Auguste Herbin, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, František Kupka, Fernand Léger, Alberto Magnelli, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Jacques Villon
Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I
1953
Portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions
Not on view
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Vasily Kandinsky
French, born Russia. 1866–1944 154 works onlineVasily Kandinsky posed this question in December 1911, in Concerning the Spiritual in Art , a text that laid out his argument for abstraction.
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Francis Picabia
French, 1879–1953 79 works onlineIn 1922, Francis Picabia wrote, “If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts.” Throughout his audacious and inventive career, which spanned almost 50 years and encompassed painting, performance, poetry, publishing, and film, Picabia lived out that prescription.
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Sonia Delaunay
French, born Ukraine. 1885–1979 52 works onlineRed and green, blue and orange, yellow and violet: these color combinations were vital to the artistic practice and theory of Sonia Delaunay, whose vast body of work—paintings and drawings, prints and illustrations, textiles and furnishings, clothing and accessories—enthralled its earliest viewers, users, and wearers.
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František Kupka
Czech, 1871–1957 51 works onlineShortly before he died in 1957, František Kupka sold Mme Kupka among Verticals , a work he had stored in his studio for nearly 45 years after its completion in 1910–11, to The Museum of Modern Art.
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