In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A boat with three pink sails floats in from the left, navigating between jagged rocks in the blue river . Above, plumes of violet and emerald rise into a golden sky. In this enigmatic image, Lurçat merged elements of classical landscapes, Cézanne's structuralism, and dream imagery inspired by his own wanderings through the Mediterranean. In 1930 an art critic wrote of Lurçat, "A deep humanitarianism and a studied judgment upon human destiny are implicit in his [recent] paintings," in which "form has a meaning beyond its own essence."
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Henri Matisse — Sketch for Le Bonheur de vivre
Violette de Mazia — A Necklace of Boats
Max Beckmann — Bridge and Wharf
Wassily Kandinsky — Painting with Troika
Alexis Gritchenko — Fishing Village
Luigi Settanni — Spreading Nets, Douarnenez
Luigi Settanni — Port-Manech
Alexej von Jawlensky — Red Path, St. Prex
Alexis Gritchenko — Sailboats, Crete
Georges Seurat — Two Sailboats at Grandcamp (Deux voiliers à
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Landscape (Paysage)
Paul Cézanne — Railroad Cut (La Tranchée)