
Jackson Pollock
Eyes in the Heat
1946
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Kurt Seligmann
1941
The Surrealist painter and woodcut artist Kurt Seligmann also excelled in set design, creating costumes and scenery. His fantastic and anthropomorphic imagery is a testament to the typically Surrealist examination of deformed visions arising from the subconscious, and to the rich Swiss-German figurative tradition. This drawing sketches a costume for the ballet The Golden Fleece, shortly after the premier of which, in 1941, Seligmann met Peggy Guggenheim. Guggenheim once owned a drawing by Seligmann entitled The Youth of the Count Gabalis, also from 1941. She exhibited a collage by him in the Exhibition of Collage at her museum-gallery Art of This Century in New York in spring 1943. This was the first international collage exhibition to be held in the United States.
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Artist | Kurt Seligmann |
Date | 1941 |
Medium | Ink, crayon and chalk on cardboard |
Dimensions | 26.5 x 42.3 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Gift, Lynven Inc. |
Accession | 2007.51 |
Collection | Acquisitions |
Type | Work on paper |
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Jackson Pollock
1946
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Unrecorded Kota artist
late 19th–early 20th century
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Armando Pizzinato
1980
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Alberto Giacometti
1936
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