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It’s a great question this question of washing. One never can find anyone who can be satisfied with anybody else’s washing. I knew a man once who never as far as anyone could see ever did any washing…
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Gertrude Stein
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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I and the Village combines Marc Chagall’s memories of his childhood in Vitebsk with folklorist and abstract imagery to create what scholar H. W. Janson called a “cubist fairy tale.” The dreamlike…
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Marc Chagall
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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This eleven-foot-wide painting is of the Bal Bullier dance hall in Paris. It is painted in the style of Simultanisme, a type of painting developed by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert Delaunay in…
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Sonia Delaunay
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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The woman depicted in Amazone is believed to be Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), an American writer, lesbian, and feminist who hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was one of several women whom…
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Chana Orloff
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1915
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In Alexander Tyshler’s illustration for a Yiddish version of the Sleeping Beauty story, characters seated around a table are packed together like puzzle pieces, enclosed in a rectangular shape from…
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Aleksandr Tyshler
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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An illustration by El Lissitzky from Chaim Nahman Bialik’s Shloyme ha-melekh (King Solomon), from an issue of the Hebrew journal Shtilim (Saplings) that was printed in 1917 in Moscow, two days before…
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El Lissitzky
Date:
1917
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In 1919, when Kramer painted The Day of Atonement, modernist art depicting Jewish rituals was considered new and radical, especially in tradition-bound England. When the Jewish community of Leeds…
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Jacob Kramer
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Leeds, United States of America
Date:
1919
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By the 1920s, the Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor, inspired by cubism and classical and “primitive” art. Her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or bronze…
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Chana Orloff
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1924
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New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
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Louis Lozowick
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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Chair with Red Matter was painted at a time when Henryk Berlewi was producing figurative art: portraits and still lives inspired by the work of seventeenth-century French artists. By 1957, he had…
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Henryk Berlewi
Places:
Nice, France
Date:
1950