In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A dark gray spot with a lurid red halo forms the nucleus of Color Motif . Surrounding this spot are jagged red shapes, squiggles of black, and thin washes of light blue, all encompassed in a field of pink. The small size and intricate facture of Color Motif invite close looking and thus heightened exposure to the object and its contents: in this case, perhaps an impression of human flesh freshly wounded by gunshot. Wols, who was a German citizen, began to focus on small-scale works on paper at the outbreak of World War II, when he was interned in his adopted home of France.
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Wassily Kandinsky — Picture with Pince-nez
Charles Demuth — Bermuda Landscape No. 2
Alo Altripp — Head in Red
Piet Mondrian — Dying sunflower II
Pablo Picasso — Two Nudes and Old Woman Holding Keys
Anonymous, British, 18th century — Design for a Baroque Styl
Chaïm Soutine — Le lapin
Edvard Munch — Blood Waterfall
Edvard Munch — The Human Mountain: Sunrays
Edvard Munch — Alma Mater: Fragment with Playing Children
Odilon Redon — Figure
Odilon Redon — Small Grey Panel I
