Art in France after WWI

right side

Amedeo Modigliani

Nude

1917 Oil on canvas

28-3⁄4 × 45-3⁄4”

Guggenheim Museum

New York

[Fig. 11-01]

Chaim Soutine

Woman in Red

c. 1924–25

Oil on canvas

36 × 25”

Private collection

[Fig. 11-02]

Maurice Utrillo

La rue du Mont-Cenis

1915

Oil on canvas

19-3⁄4 × 24”

Musée National d’Art Moderne

Pompidou, Paris

[Fig. 11-05]

Henri Matisse

Piano Lesson, late summer

1916

Oil on canvas

8’ 1⁄2” × 6’ 11-3⁄4”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 11-06]

Henri Matisse

Decorative Figure Against an Ornamental Background

1925–26

Oil on canvas

51-1⁄8 × 38-1⁄2”

Musée National d’Art ModernePompidou, Paris

[Fig. 11-09]

Henri Matisse

Merion Dance Mural

1932–33

The Barnes Foundation

Merion Pennsylvania

[Fig. 11-12]

Pablo Picasso

Olga Seated in an Armchair

1917

Oil on canvas

51-1⁄6 × 35”

Musée Picasso, Paris

[Fig. 11-15]

Pablo Picasso

The American Manager

1917

Reconstruction

Realized by Kermit Love for The Museum of Modern Art

1979.Paint on cardboard, fabric, paper, wood,

leather, and metal

11’ 2-1⁄4” × 8’ × 3’ 8-1⁄2”

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

[Fig. 11-16]

Pablo Picasso Guernica1937 Oil on canvas 11’ 6” × 25’ 8” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Georges Braque

Café Bar

1919

Oil on Canvas 63 ¼” x 31 7/8 “

Ofentliche KunstsammlungKunstmuseum Basel

[Fig. 11.23]

Fernand Léger

Three Women (Le Grand Déjeuner)

1921 Oil on canvas

6’ 1⁄4” × 8’ 3”

The Museum of Modern Art New York

[Fig. 11-25]

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard

Jeanneret)

Still Life

1920Oil on canvas 31-7⁄8 × 39-

1⁄4”

The Museum of Modern Art New York

[Fig. 11-28]

De Stijl&

Geometric Abstraction

Piet Mondrian

Tableau, No. II with Red, Blue, Black,, Yellow, and grey

1921-25

Oil on canvas

29 5/8 “ x 25 5/8”

Private Collection, Zurich

[Fig. 12.3]

Theo van Doesburg

Composition IX (Card Players)

1917Oil on canvas

45-5⁄8 × 41-3⁄4”

Gemeentemuseum The Hague the Netherlands

[Fig. 12-06]

J. J. P. Oud

Café de Unie

1925

Destroyed 1940

Rotterdam, the Netherlands

[Fig. 12-11]

Gerrit Rietveld

View of exterior

of Schröder House

1924

[Fig. 12-13]

Gerrit Rietveld

Red and Blue Chair

1917 (painted 1923)

Painted woodheight 34-1⁄2”

The Museum of Modern Art New York

[Fig. 12-15]

Bauhaus

Walter Gropius and Adolph Meyer, Model Factory at the Werkbund Exhibition, 1914. Cologne. [Fig. 13-02]

Walter Gropius, Workshop wing, Bauhaus, 1925–26.Dessau, Germany. [Fig. 13-04]

László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled, c. 1940.Photogram, silver bromide print, 20 × 16” (50 × 40 cm).

The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of George and Ruth Barford. [Fig. 13-06]

Josef Albers, City, 1928.Sand-blasted colored glass, 11 × 21-5⁄8” (27.9 × 54.9 cm).

Kunsthaus, Zurich. [Fig. 13-08]

Paul Klee, In der Strömung sechs Schwellen (In the Current Six Weirs), 1929.Oil and tempera on canvas; original frame, 16-3⁄5 × 16-3⁄5” (42.2 × 42.2 cm).

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. [Fig. 13-10]

Paul Klee, Tod und Feuer (Death and Fire), 1940.Oil and colored paste on burlap; original frame, 18-2⁄5 × 17-1⁄2” (46.7 × 44.6 cm).

Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. [Fig. 13-12]

Vasily Kandinsky, Several Circles, No. 323, 1926.Oil on canvas, 55-1⁄8 × 55-1⁄8” (140 × 140 cm).

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. [Fig. 13-14]

Oskar Schlemmer, Abstract Figure, 1923.Bronze (cast 1962 from original plaster), 42-1⁄8 × 26-3⁄8” (107 × 67 cm).

Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. [Fig. 13-16]

Marcel Breuer, Armchair, Model B3, Dessau, Germany. Late 1927 or early 1928. Chrome-plated tubular steel with canvas slings,

28-1⁄8 × 30-1⁄4 × 27-3⁄4” (71.4 × 76.8 × 70.5 cm).The Museum of Modern Art, New York. [Fig. 13-18]

Paul Citroën, Metropolis, 1923.Collage, printed matter, and postcards, 30 × 23” (76.5 × 58.5 cm).Printroom of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. [Fig. 13-20]

Naum Gabo, Construction for the Bijenkorf department store, 1956–57.Pre-stressed concrete, steel ribs, stainless steel, bronze wire, and marble, height 85’ (25.9 m).

Rotterdam, the Netherlands. [Fig. 13-22]

Willi Baumeister, Wall Picture with Circle II, 1923.Oil and wood on wood panel, 46-1⁄2 × 27-1⁄8” (118 × 69 cm).

Kunsthalle, Hamburg. [Fig. 13-24]

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Elevation for brick country house, 1923. [Fig. 13-26]

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German Pavilion, International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain. Floor plan, 1929 [Fig. 13-28]

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square: Apparition, 1959.Oil on board, 47-1⁄2 × 47-1⁄2” (120.7 × 120.7 cm).

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. [Fig. 13-30]