In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Afro Basaldella was an Italian painter active mainly in Venice and Rome. He employed a semiabstract, openwork version of cubism in The Novice , whose title may refer to a newcomer to a religious order, an academic discipline, or a type of craft. This image is representative of Afro's syntheses of cubism with metaphysical mysticism during the late 1940s (a mode of painting that he called "abstract-surrealism"). The display of The Novice amid paintings by Picasso, Braque, and de Chirico alludes to some of Afro's inspirations and artistic affinities.
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Marsden Hartley — Movement, Bermuda
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
Pablo Picasso — Woman in an Armchair
Joan Miró — Two Women Surrounded by Birds
Paul Klee — The Last Mercenary (Der letzte Landsknecht)
Irene Rice Pereira — White Lines
Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) — Tightrope Walker
Joan Miró — Group of Women (Groupe de femmes)
Abraham Hankins — Ocean
Arshile Gorky — After Xhorkum
Giorgio de Chirico — The Pirate (Le Corsaire)
Charles Demuth — Bermuda: Stairway