11 WEST 53 STREET,NEW YORK 19, N. Y. EXHIBITION 469 TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 5-8900 RECENT ACQUISITIONS EXHIBITION - February 14 - April 15, 1951 3.51 BOURGEOIS, Louise. American, born France 1911. SLEEPING FIGURE. 1950. Balsa wood, 74 1/2" high. Katharine Cornell Fund. Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris, attended the Beaux-Arts and Academie Ransom, and was a pupil of Leger. She came to New York in 1938, where she held one-man shows of her paint- ing; in 1945 and 1947, and of her sculpture in 1949 and 1950. In 1947 she published "He Disappeared into Complete Silence," a portfolio of engravings, with parables. 85.50 BUFFET, Bernard. French, born 1928. STILL LIFE WITH FISH, II. 1949. Oil on canvas, 16 3/8 x 33 1/2". Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund. Buffet, child prodigy of present-day French pamtdng, was born in 1928 (some say 1927), entered the Beaux-Arts in 1943, and began exhibiting at the Independants, Salon d'Automne, and elsewhere in 1947. His first one-man show (preceded by a small show on the Left Bank which went un- noticed) won him the Prix de 1a Critique in 1948, and he has since held exhibitions in Paris and Brussels (1949) and New York (1950 and 1951). 320.50 CORINTH, Lavis. German, 1858-1925. SELF PORTRAIT. 1924. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 5/8". Gift of Q.ur.-t Val~in. _ This is one of the last of Corinth's many self portraits and is close both in pose and mood td the portrait of May 1925 completed only about two months before the artist's death. 5.51 CORNELL, Joseph. American, born 1903. CENTRAL PARK CARROUSEL - 1950, IN MEMORIAM. 1950. Con- struction in wood, mirror, wire netting, paper, 20 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 6 3/4". Katharine Cornell Fund. Cornell, born in New YOrk City, .is self-taught as an artist. He first exhibited his surrealist objects in a one-man show in New York in 1932, and he has shown frequently since then. 236.50 I:UF?" Raoul. French, born 1879. THE FLEET AT VILLEFRANCHE. 1926. Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x n 7/8". Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Ru~e1. 88.50 GORKY, Arshile. American, born Russia 1904. Died 1948. COMPOSITION - HORSE AND FIGURES: 1928. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 43 3/8". Gift of Bernard Davis in memory of the artist. MoMAExh_0469_MasterChecklist
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11 WEST 53 STREET,NEW YORK 19, N. Y. EXHIBITION 469TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 5-8900
RECENT ACQUISITIONSEXHIBITION - February 14 - April 15, 1951
3.51 BOURGEOIS, Louise. American, born France 1911.SLEEPING FIGURE. 1950. Balsa wood, 74 1/2" high.Katharine Cornell Fund.Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris, attended the Beaux-Artsand Academie Ransom, and was a pupil of Leger. She came toNew York in 1938, where she held one-man shows of her paint-ing; in 1945 and 1947, and of her sculpture in 1949 and 1950.In 1947 she published "He Disappeared into Complete Silence,"a portfolio of engravings, with parables.
85.50 BUFFET, Bernard. French, born 1928.STILL LIFE WITH FISH, II. 1949. Oil on canvas, 16 3/8 x33 1/2". Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund.Buffet, child prodigy of present-day French pamtdng, wasborn in 1928 (some say 1927), entered the Beaux-Arts in1943, and began exhibiting at the Independants, Salond'Automne, and elsewhere in 1947. His first one-man show(preceded by a small show on the Left Bank which went un-noticed) won him the Prix de 1a Critique in 1948, and hehas since held exhibitions in Paris and Brussels (1949)and New York (1950 and 1951).
320.50 CORINTH, Lavis. German, 1858-1925.SELF PORTRAIT. 1924. Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 5/8".Gift of Q.ur.-tVal~in. _This is one of the last of Corinth's many self portraitsand is close both in pose and mood td the portrait of May1925 completed only about two months before the artist'sdeath.
5.51 CORNELL, Joseph. American, born 1903.CENTRAL PARK CARROUSEL - 1950, IN MEMORIAM. 1950. Con-struction in wood, mirror, wire netting, paper, 20 1/4 x14 1/2 x 6 3/4".Katharine Cornell Fund.Cornell, born in New YOrk City, .is self-taught as an artist.He first exhibited his surrealist objects in a one-man showin New York in 1932, and he has shown frequently since then.
236.50 I:UF?" Raoul. French, born 1879.THE FLEET AT VILLEFRANCHE. 1926. Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 xn 7/8".Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Ru~e1.
88.50 GORKY, Arshile. American, born Russia 1904. Died 1948.COMPOSITION - HORSE AND FIGURES: 1928. Oil on canvas,34 1/4 x 43 3/8".Gift of Bernard Davis in memory of the artist.
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KANDINSKY, WassilY1 Russian, 1866-1944. Worked in Germany andFrance. 'CHURCH AT MURNAU. 1909. Oil on cardboard, 191/8 x 27 1/2".Purchase Fund.
KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig. German, 1880-1938.STREET. 1907. Oil on canvas, 59 1/4 x 78 7/8". PurchaseFund.
LAWRENCE, Jacob. American, born 1917.SEDATION. 1950. Casein, 31 x 22 7/8". Gift of Mr. and Mrs.Hugo Kastor ,Lawrence painted a number of pictures inspired by scenes ina hospital where he spent several months during a long ill-ness. He explains that this painting represents a booth inwhich a nurse sat waiting to give out sedative pills to thepatients before they retired for the night. The pills werelaid out on a cloth-covered tray in front of the seatednurse. The tray was ~urrounded by glass, one panel of whichwas moved when the pills were handed out.
/ "lb. 51 MOORE, Henry. British; born 1898.FAMILY GROUP. 1945-49. Bronze, 59 1/4" high. A. CongerGoodyear Fund.
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NOGUCHI, tsamu. American, born 1904.PORTRAIT OF MY UNCLE. 1931, Terra cotta, 12 1/2" high.Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg.This portrait was made in Japan, where the artist worked dur-ing a sojourn of several years in the Far East •..STAEL, Nicolas de. French, born Russia 1914.PAINTING. 1947. Oil on canvas, 77 x 38 3/8". Gift of Mr.and Mrs. Lee A. Ault.Staal was born in St. Petersburg, left Russia for Berlin in1918, and two years later went to live in Brussels where hestudied at the Royal Acader~ of Fine Arts. In 1932 he wentto Paris, and during the next ten years traveled extensively,particularly in Spain, North Africa and Italy. His firstshow was held in Paris in 1945, another in 1950, and in 1948he showed in Montevideo, Uruguay.
TAL COAT, Rene Pierre. French, born 1905.LA MARSEILLAISE. 1944. Oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 12 7/8".Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Fund.Tal Coat was born in a fishing village in Brittany, nearPouldu where Gauguin had lived and artists from variouscountries still gathered. As a youth he tried sculpture andworked in the Quimper pottery making models. At about 19 hewent to Paris where he held his first painting show in 1927.Gertrude Stein was interested in him, and he made severalportraits of her, one of which is in the Baltimore ~hlseum ofArt. He showed frequently in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s,and had an exhibition in New York in 1938. During the warhe lived at Aix-en-Provence, where the Museum's canvas, in-spired by the liberation of France, was painted. His workhas since become almost entirely abstract.
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UBAC,Raoul. Be1~~an, born 1910. Lives in Paris.
T,IO PERSONSATA TABLE. 1950. Oil on canvas, 51 x 28 3/4".Purchase Fund.
Ubac took up photography and engraving, and was assocfatedwith the surrealists in Brussels and in Paris where he wentabout 1935 after travels through Europe. His paintings werefirst shown in Paris in 1946 and he had one-man shows inParis and London in 1950.
The following were exhibited in the same gallery as the Moore "Family GToup":
The Bride, Lead and copper wireFamily Group, BronzeReclining Figure, LeadTwo Forms, woodSculpture and Red Rocks, Crayon, wash, pen and inkSeated Figures, II, Colored crayon, wash, pen and inkStudies for Sculpture, Wash and charcoal
