Stifling Luxury

The Saint, 1903, Odilon Redon

Drawing Knotted in the Manner of a Net, Paul Klee, 1920, Modern and Contemporary Art

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984 Size: 12 ¼ x 7 ½ in. (31.1 x 19.1 cm) Medium: Ink on paper mounted on cardboard

Study of a Woman, Ladislav Treskoň, 1922, Slovak National Gallery

POZN: cena v starej mene

Portrait of the Artist’s Children Emma and Paul (box), Jean-Antoine Laurent, c. 1795, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

Size: Diameter: 6.3 cm (2 ½ in.) Medium: watercolor on ivory, gold mount, set in the cover of a composition bonbonniere

Strike, 1906, Boris Kustodiev

Luis Caballero (Colombian, 1943–1995)

Untitled, 1990

The Crucifixion, 1904, Odilon Redon

The Men’s Bath, Albrecht Dürer, 1496, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

Albrecht Dürer’s Men’s Bath has been interpreted in many ways—from a humanist ode to Italian nudes to a group of portraits including three potential views of Dürer and one of his best friend, the rotund Willibald Pirckheimer. The waterline is only ankle-deep for the standing figures, while the seated pair in the foreground is more submerged; a Dürer look-alike controls the strategically placed pump. This large-scale woodcut was published shortly after a 1496 edict closed the bathhouses in Dürer’s hometown of Nuremberg, around the time of both an outbreak of syphilis and a drought. It may therefore be a protest against the edict, or perhaps a nostalgic look at idyllic bathing activities of days past. The Charles Deering Collection Size: 383 x 278 mm (image/sheet, trimmed within block) Medium: Woodcut in black on buff laid paper

Isabel Bishop, Lenore Seroka, 1979, Brooklyn Museum: Photography

© Lenore Seroka Size: sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.8 x 35.5 cm) image: 9 ½ x 12 ½ in. (23.8 x 31.5 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver photograph

The Magic Circle, 1886, John William Waterhouse

Portrait of a Man, Oscar Kleineh, 1865, Finnish National Gallery

Self-Portrait with Portrait of Delacroix, George Sand , c. 1845, Cleveland Museum of Art: Drawings

Size: Sheet: 16.5 x 11.2 cm (6 ½ x 4 7/16 in.); Image: 16.5 x 11.2 cm (6 ½ x 4 7/16 in.) Medium: pen and ink