Joan Miró, Mulher E Pássaro à Luz Da Lua (Women, Bird By Moonlight), 1949.

Italian Jewish painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani was born on this day in 1884, known for his reclining nudes and portraits with elegantly elongated features. This fall, our exhibition of early drawings will illuminate Modigliani’s heritage as an Italian Sephardic Jew as pivotal to understanding his artistic output. Modigliani Unmasked will consider the celebrated artist shortly after he arrived in Paris in 1906, when the city was still roiling with anti-Semitism after the long-running tumult of the Dreyfus Affair and the influx of foreign emigres. Modigliani’s Italian-Sephardic background helped forge a complex cultural identity that rested in part on the ability of Italian Jews historically to assimilate and embrace diversity. 

Wilfredo Lam 1902-1982, Cuba

"Hurricane" 1942

Vincent van Gogh

"Iris", 1890.

Oil on thinned Cardboard, mounted on Canvas, 62.2 × 48.3 cm.

National Gallery of Canada.

Ruby’s lips, Salvador Dalí, 1949

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

Red Snapdragons, 1923,

oil on canvas, 51 x 26cms

The Scream, 1910, Edvard Munch

Size: 83.5x66 cm Medium: tempera on cardboard

Red Oval, 1920, Wassily Kandinsky

Medium: oil,canvas

Bustling Aquarelle  (c.1923)

Wassily Kandinsky

this print at Amazon.com

clock by pedro friedeberg, from “designing furniture, from concept to shop drawing: a practical guide”, 1989.