Art0634 - Sans Titre

André Derain, Matisse et Terrus, Painted in 1905

oil on canvas

40.3 x 54.3 cm. 15 7⁄8 x 21 3⁄8 in.

Rolph Scarlett (American, 1889-1984), Abstract Composition. Oil on canvas, 37 x 50 in.

The Blue Lake (Der Blaue See)

Artist: Gabriele Münter (German, 1877–1962)

Date: 1912

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Depicting the rolling terrain near Murnau, Der blaue See (The Blue Lake) shows a slightly elevated view onto Lake Staffel, a frequent subject of the artist from the 1910s into the 1950s. Among Münter’s early depictions of this subject, this particular composition features saturated colors and boldly styled contour lines typical of this pivotal moment in Münter’s early development. “After a short period of agony,” she described, “I made a big leap [in Murnau], from copying nature - more or less impressionistically - to feeling its content, to abstracting, to presenting a distillation.”

Gabriele Münter (German, 1877-1962), Gelbes Haus mit Apfelbaum [Yellow House with Apple Tree], 1910. Oil on board, 16 3⁄8 x 19 7⁄8 in.

Larry Rivers Kings ,1960 oil on canvas

Empor by Wassily Kandinsky (1929, Gemälde)

Creglingen by Carl Grossberg, 1926

Francis Bott, Komposition in hellem Rot

signed and dated 60

oil on canvas

100 by 100 cm. 39 3/8 by 39 3/8 in.