Cubism and Its Radical
Legacies
William V. Ganis, PhD
Cubism
Paul Cézanne
Mount Sainte-Victoire
1902-1904
oil on canvas
2 ft. 3 1/2 in. x 2 ft. 11 1/4 in.
Georges Braque
Houses of L’Estaque
1908
oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.
Pablo Picasso
The Blind Man’s Meal
1903
oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso
Gertrude Stein
1906-1907
oil on canvas
3 ft. 3 3/8 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
1907
oil on canvas
8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
Georges Braque
The Portuguese
1911
oil on canvas
3 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 2 ft. 8 in.
Pablo Picasso
Ma Jolie
1911
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 25 3/4 in.
Georges Braque
L’Affiche de Kubelick (Le Violon)
1912
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 24 in.
Pablo Picasso
The Accordionist
Summer 1911
oil on canvas
51 x 35 in.
Pablo Picasso
Still Life with Chair-Caning
1912
oil and oilcloth on canvas
10 5/8 in. x 1 ft. 1 3/4 in.
Georges Braque
Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe and Glass
1913
charcoal and various papers pasted on paper
1 ft. 6 7/8 in. x 2 ft. 1 3/4 in.
Pablo Picasso
maquette for Guitar
1912
cardboard, string and wire
2 ft. 1 1/4 in. x 1 ft. 7 1/2 in.
Jacques Lipchitz
Bather
1917
bronze
2 ft. 10 3/4 in. x 1 ft. 1 1/4 in.
Aleksandr Archipenko
Woman Combing Her Hair
1915
bronze
approximately 1 ft. 1 3/4 in. high
Constantin Brancusi
Sleeping Muse
1909-11
white marble
11 1/2 in. long
Constantin Brancusi
Madamoiselle Pogany
1912
white marble
Constantin Brancusi
Bird in Space
1927
polished bronze
193.4 x 13.3 x 16 cm
Purism
Fernand Léger
The City
1919
oil on canvas
approximately 7 ft. 7 in. x 9 ft. 9 1/2 in.
Futurism
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
“Founding Manifesto”
Le Figaro
February 20, 1909
Giacomo Balla
Street Light
1909
oil on canvas
68 3/4 x 45 1/4 in.
Giacomo Balla
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Leash in Motion)
1912
oil on canvas
35 x 45 1/2 in.
Giacomo Balla
Abstract Speed - The Car Has Passed
1913
oil on canvas
50.2 x 65.4 cm
Umberto Boccioni
Cavalry Charge (Charge of the Lancers)
1915
tempera and collage on pasteboard
32 x 50 cm
Gino Severini
Red Cross Train Passing a
Village
1915
oil on canvas
35 x 45 3/4 in.
Gino Severini
Armored Train
1915
oil on canvas
3 ft. 10 in. x 2 ft. 10 1/8 in.
Giacomo Balla
Flight of the Swifts
1913
watercolor on paper
23 x 33 in.
Antonio Giulio Bragaglia
The Cellist
1913
gelatin-silver print
Antonio Giulio Bragaglia
Dynamism of a Typist
1913
gelatin-silver print
Antonio Giulio Bragaglia
Polyphysiognomic Portrait of Boccioni
1912-13
gelatin-silver print
Umberto Boccioni
Dynamism of a Soccer Player
1913
oil on canvas
76 1/8 x 79 1/8 in.
Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space
1913
bronze
3 ft. 7 7/8 in. x 2 ft. 10 7/8 in. x 1 ft. 3 3/4
in.
Umberto Boccioni
Table+Bottle+House
1912
pencil on paper
13 1/8 x 9 3/8 in.
Umberto Boccioni
Development of a Bottle in Space
1912
silvered bronze
15 x 12 7/8 x 23 in.
Umberto Boccioni
Materia
1912
oil on canvas
89 x 59 in.
Gino Severini
Dynamic Heiroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin
1912
oil on canvas
63 5/8 x 61 1/2 in.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
The Horse (Le Cheval)
1914
bronze
43.6 x 41 cm
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase
No. 2
1912
oil on canvas
58 x 35 in.
Francis Picabia
Dances at the Spring
1912
oil on canvas
47 1/2 x 47 1/2 in.
Russian Avant-Garde
Natalia Goncharova
Icon Painting Motifs
1912
watercolor on cardboard
19 1/2 x 13 5/8 in.
Natalia Goncharova
The Archangel Michael
1910
oil on canvas
Natalia Goncharova
Haycutting
1911
oil on canvas
Natalia Goncharova
Linen
1912
oil on canvas
35 x 27 1/2 in.
Rayonism
Natalia Goncharova
Green Forest
ca. 1912
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.
Natalia Goncharova
Cats
1913
oil on canvas
33 1/4 x 33 in.
Mikhail Larinov
Rayonist Composition
1916
gouache on paper
21 1/4 x17 5/8 in.
Suprematism
Kasimir Malevich
Woodcutter
1912
oil on canvas
37 x 28 1/8 in.
Kasimir Malevich
Morning in the Country after Snowstorm
1912
oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 31 7/8 in.
Kasimir Malevich
An Englishman in Moscow
1914
oil on canvas
88 x 57 cm
Liubov Popova
Composition with Figures
1913
oil on canvas
160 x 124.3 cm
Liubov Popova
Relief
1915
oil on canvas
Kasimir Malevich
Black Circle
1913
oil on canvas
41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.
Kasimir Malevich
Black Square
1913
oil on canvas
41 3/4 x 41 7/8 in.
Kasimir Malevich
Black Square and Red Square
1915
oil on canvas
28 x 17 1/2 in.
Kasimir Malevich
0-10 The Last Futurist Exhibition of Pictures
December 19, 1915 - January 19, 1916
Petrograd
Kasimir Malevich
Suprematist Painting: Aeroplane Flying
1915
oil on canvas
22 5/8 x 19 in.
Kasimir Malevich
Suprematist Composition:
White Square on White
1918
oil on canvas
31 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.
Liubov Popova
Painterly Architectonic
1918
oil on canvas
Liubov Popova
Non-objective Composition
1920-21
oil on canvas
Carlo Carra
Patriotic Celebration
1914
collage
15 x 12 in.
Giacomo Balla
Speed of an Automobile
1913
charcoal on paper
Olga Rozanova
Flight of an Airplane: Non-objective Composition
1916
oil on canvas
Liubov Popova
Subject from a Dyer’s Shop
1914
oil on canvas
27 3/4 x 35 in.
Kasimir Malevich
Supresmus No. 56
1916
oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 28 in.