In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Most of Demuth's watercolors from this time record the gay nightclubs, cafés, and bathhouses he frequented in Greenwich Village. Here he captured the ambience of nightlife in New York City through vaudeville performers like the acrobats pictured here. The central figure balances a box of flowers that cascades down and highlights his sensually muscular legs. The ambiguous yellow orb may be a stage light.
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Jules Pascin — Two Women at a Circular Table
Amedeo Modigliani — Pink Nude—Caryatid (recto); Caryatid (ve
Jules Pascin — Nude Seated on Hassock (Nu assis sur un pouf)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Zwei Akte im Raum
Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941) — The Nymphs
Georges Rouault — Two Ballet Girls
Francis McCarthy — Girl Seated in Room
Hugh Mesibov — Byzantine Figure
Henri Matisse — Seated Nude
Jules Pascin — Offering to Venus (Offrande à Vénus)
Fernand Léger — Interior, Study for The Three Women
Krona Bronstein — Seated Figure
