In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Joan Miró assigned specific dates to Group of Personages and to the related painting Group of Women , seen on the left side of this ensemble, as a form of record keeping, emulating the contemporaneous practices of photojournalism. During the Spanish Civil War, photographers captured snapshots of battles with handheld Leica cameras, allowing them to closely follow the militias. The photographs were then disseminated through the international daily press to publicize the Spanish Republic's resistance to General Francisco Franco's fascist regime.
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Arshile Gorky — After Xhorkum
Afro — Saint Martin
Abraham Hankins — Ocean
Arshile Gorky — The Plough and the Song
Afro — The Novice (Il novizio)
Jean Lurçat — Still Life (Nature morte)
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
Wassily Kandinsky — Sign
Paul Klee — Two Red Flowers (Zwei rote Blüten)
Joseph Vogel|WPA — Vision
Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) — Carnival in the Snow
Fernand Léger — Divers on a Yellow Background
