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European Art
Between the World Wars

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Lawrence Stephen Lowry
L S Lowry

born: Manchester, England; 1 November 1887
died: Mottram-in-Longdendalle, England; 23 February 1976

Landscape in Wigan
1925

Seven more Lowry pictures.

Marc Chagall

born: Vitebsk, Belarus; 7 July 1887
died: Saint Paul-de-Vence, France; 29 March 1985

Grandfathers 1922	Woman and the Roses 1929
White Crucifixion 1938	The Rooster 1929

Thirteen more Chagall pictures and 4 stained glass windows.

Giorgio de Chirico

born: Vólos, Greece; 10 July 1888
died: Rome, Italy; 19 November 1978

There is a good deal more De Chirico in the Pre WW I Gallery.

Archaeologists
1927

Other works:

Piazza d'Italie: Malincornia, 1948, Private Collection.
The Philosopher and the Poet, 1915, Conte Alfonso Orombelli, Millan, Italy.

Max Ernst

born: Brühl, Germany; 2 April 1891
died: Paris, France; 1 April 1976

Elephant of Celebes
1921
Tate Gallery
London, England

Seven more Max Ernst pictures.

Other works:

Sea and Sun, 1925, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US.
Petrified City; 1933, Art Galleries, Manchester, England.

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix

born: Untermhausen near Gera, Thuringia [now Germany]; 2 December1891
died: Singen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany; 25 July 1969

Frau Dr. Koch
[the future Mrs. Dix]
about 1921

Dr. Hans Koch
1921
Museum Ludwig
Cologne, Germany

Twenty more Dix picture from before World War I with an outline biography.

Seventeen more Dix pictures from between the world wars and an outline biography.

Chaim Soutine

born: Smilovich, a Lithuanian village near Minsk (now in Belarus); 1893/94
died: Paris, France; 9 August 1943

Soutine was a friend of Modigliani.

Beef
about 1925
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, NY, US

Woman in Red
about 1923
Musée d'Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris

View of Céret
1921-22
Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD, US

Sixty-one pictures and a biography of Soutine in two parts.

Joan Miró i Ferrá

born: Montroig or Barcelona, Spain; 20 April 1893
died: Palma, Majorca, Spain; 25 December 1983

Nude with a Mirror
1919
Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Düsseldorf, Germany

Ten more Miró pictures.

George Grosz

born: Berlin, Germany; 26 July 1893
died: Berlin, Germany; 6 July 1959

Strength and Grace
[Ecce Homo -VII]
1922

Twelve more Grosz pictures from between the wars.

Ben Nicholson

born: Denham, Buckinghamshire, England; 10 April 1894
died: London, England; 6 February 1982

February 1956—Granite
[Oil and Pencil on wood]
1956

February 1959—Half Moon
1959

Other works:

December 1951 -- St Ives -- Oval and Steeple, 1951, Art Gallery, Bristol, England.
White Relief, 1935, Ivor Braka Ltd, London, England.
Window in Cornwall; 1946, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, England.

Paul Delvaux

born: Antheit, Belgium; 23 September 1897
died: Veurne, Belgium; 20 July 1994

In the mid 1930s Delvaux was influenced by Dalí and de Chirico and became a Surrealist painter. It is this art for which he most remembered.

The Pink Bow
1937
Koninklijk Museum
Antwerp, The Netherlands

Nymphs Bathing
1938

Pygmalion
1939
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts,
Brussels, Belgium

Village of Mermaids
1942
Art Institute
Chicago, IL, US

Sleeping Venus
1944
Tate Gallery
London, England

René François Ghislain Magritte

born: Lessines, Belgium; 21 November 1898
died: Brussels, Belgium; 15 August 1967

Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (1916–18). In 1922 he saw a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico's painting “The Song of Love” (1914), an evocative and haunting juxtaposition of odd elements (a classical bust and a rubber glove among them) in a dreamlike architectural space; it had a great influence on Magritte's mature style. For the next few years he was active in the Belgian Surrealist movement. He became a full-time painter in 1926.

Attempting the Impossible
1928

Homesickness
1941

Twenty-eight more Magritte pictures from between the wars.

Twenty more Magritte pictures from after World War II.

Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara Gorska

born: Warsaw, Poland; 1898
died: Mexico; 1980

Adam and Eve
1932
Petit Palais
Geneva, Switzerland

Twenty-Two more De Lempicka pictures.

Salvador Dalí
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali

born: Figueras, Spain; 2 May 1904
died: Barcelona, Spain; 23 January 1989

Burning Giraffe
1937
Emanuel Hoffman
Collection
Basel, Switzerland

Forty-seven more Dalí pictures with an outline biography.

Matta
Roberto Matta Escaurren

born: Santiago, Chile; 11 November 1911
died: Civitavecchia, Italy; 23 November 2002

Matta was a Chilean painter who worked mainly in Paris. He was trained as an architect in Chile; he arrived in Paris in 1933, and worked with Le Corbusier before becoming fascinated with Surrealism. He was a pioneer in abstract expressionism. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States.