In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Spanish artist Joan Miró is often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s and 1930s, though he was never part of the official group led by poet André Breton. Like the surrealists, Miró sought to access the unconscious mind. Using a method called automatism, he tried to suspend conscious thinking as he was drawing, letting his inner psyche take over. Indeed the images here—monstrous figures floating around in a murky nothingness—seem to emerge from a dream.
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Arshile Gorky — After Xhorkum
Afro — Saint Martin
Afro — The Novice (Il novizio)
Arshile Gorky — The Plough and the Song
Liz Clarke — The Balloon Man
Fernand Léger — Divers on a Yellow Background
Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) — God of War
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) — Carnival in the Snow
anonymous — Smalle vlakke verzilverde lijst
Wassily Kandinsky — Sign
Paul Klee — Two Red Flowers (Zwei rote Blüten)
