
David Smith
Untitled
1963
Not on View
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Rita Kernn-Larsen
1937
Peggy Guggenheim included this work by Danish artist Rita Kernn-Larsen in her first Surrealist exhibition organized at her London gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, in 1938. A self-portrait, tellingly titled Know Thyself, it features an automatic line developed from the artist’s own features, and merges images arising from the unconscious, combining both memory and dream. It references the myth of the femme-arbre (woman-tree) by depicting metamorphic leaves of a tree branch transforming into female lips.
On view
Artist | Rita Kernn-Larsen |
Date | 1937 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 40 x 45 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by Penny Borda, Lewis and Laura Kruger, and the Guggenheim Circle, 2013 |
Accession | 2013.41 |
Collection | Acquisitions |
Type | Painting |
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David Smith
1963
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Unrecorded Senufo artist
first half of 20th century
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Marcel Jean
1935–42
Not on View
Roman Opalka
1967
Not on View