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Marcel Duchamp. Rotative demisphère (Optiques de précision) (Rotary Demisphere [Precision Optics]). 1924

Painted wood demisphere fitted on velvet-covered disk, copper collar with Plexiglas dome, motor, pulley, and metal stand
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. William Sisler and Edward James Fund

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Special Exhibitions Audio: Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 (25)

  1. <i>Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925</i> December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013

    Introduction to the exhibition Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925
  2. For Inventing Abstraction Stop 601

    Pablo Picasso. Woman with a Mandolin. 1910
  3. 79008

    Arnold Schoenberg-Vasily Kandinsky encounter
  4. Vasily Kandinsky, <i>Komposition V (Composition V)</i>, 1911<br> Oil on canvas Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich

    Vasily Kandinsky. Komposition V (Composition V). 1911
  5. František Kupka, <i>Localisation des mobiles graphiques II (Localization of graphic motifs II)</i>, 1912–13<br> Oil on canvas<br> National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Jan and Meda Mladek

    František Kupka. Localisation des mobiles graphiques II (Localization of graphic motifs II). 1912–13
  6. Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Blaise Cendrars, <i>La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of little Joan of France)</i>, 1913<br> Oil on canvas<br> Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Gift of the artist

    Sonia Delaunay-Terk and Blaise Cendrars. La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of little Joan of France). 1913
  7. Fernand Léger, <i>Fumée sur les toits (Smoke over the rooftops)</i>, 1912<br> Oil on paper<br> Private collection

    Fernand Leger. Contrasts of Forms series. 1912-14
  8. Guillaume Apollinaire, <i>Case d’Armons (Artillery-carriage compartment for personal effects)</i>, 1915<br> Book with twenty-one poems reproduced through a gelatin plate process with pasted printed matter and ink on graph paper<br> Publisher: the artist with the assistance of Sergeants Bodard and Berthier, France<br> Edition: 25 (few known copies). This copy contains Apollinaire’s hand-written dedication to his fiancée, Madeleine Pagès<br> Jean Bonna Library, Geneva

    Guillaume Apollinaire. Case d’Armons (Artillery-carriage compartment for personal effects). 1915
  9. Oil on canvas<br> The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Collection, given by their family

    Francis Picabia. La Source (The spring). 1912
  10. Oil on canvas<br> The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Collection, given by their family

    Francis Picabia. La Source (The spring). 1912. Layer: Picabia’s road trip
  11. Oil on canvas<br> Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr.

    Morgan Russell, Synchromy in Orange: To Form, 1913–14
  12. Ink, crayon, and cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper<br> The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Benjamin and Frances Benenson Foundation

    Futurist Parole in libertà (words in freedom), 1914-15
  13. Ink, crayon, and cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper<br> The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Benjamin and Frances Benenson Foundation

    Luigi Russolo’s noise music
  14. Gouache, watercolor, and collage on paper mounted on canvas<br> Tate. Purchase

    Duncan Grant. Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound. 1914
  15. Pastel on canvas mounted on board<br> Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. Gift of Ferdinand Howald

    Arthur Dove. Movement No. 1. before February 1912
  16. Watercolor on paper<br> The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. Gift of the Burnett Foundation

    Georgia O’Keeffe. Blue II. 1916
  17. Painted wood demisphere fitted on velvet-covered disk, copper collar with Plexiglas dome, motor, pulley, and metal stand<br> The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. William Sisler and Edward James Fund

    Marcel Duchamp. Rotative demisphère (Optiques de précision) (Rotary Demisphere [Precision Optics]). 1924
  18. 79233

    Kazimir Malevich paintings at the “0.10” exhibition, 1915
  19. Wood and metal<br> Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Commission

    Vladimir Tatlin. Model for Pamiatnik III Internatsionala (Monument to the Third International). Constructed by Tevel’ Shapiro, Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaia, Iosif Meerzon, and Pavel Vinogradov under Tatlin’s direction, 1920; reconstruction 1979
  20. Illustrated book with twelve collage illustrations<br> Publisher: Andrei Shemshurin, Petrograd<br> Edition: 100 (12 known examples)<br> The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

    Aleksei Kruchenykh. Vselenskaia voina. Ъ (Universal war. Ъ [the Cyrillic hard sign]). 1916
  21. Oil on canvas<br> The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.<br> Patrons Art Fund

    Piet Mondrian. The Trees. 1912
  22. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. Transferred by the Rijksgebouwendienst

    Theo van Doesburg. Glas-in-loodcompositie IV (Stained-glass composition IV). Designed for the De Lange House, Alkmaar, 1917
  23. Collection the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin

    Mary Wigman and Rudolf van Laban
  24. Man Ray. <i>Rayograph</i>, 1923. Gelatin silver print, 11 9/16 x 9 1/4" (29.4 x 23.5 cm). Gift of James Thrall Soby. © 2010 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

    Photograms, 1922
  25. MoMA Audio: Special Exhibitions

    Der Absolute Film (Absolute Film)

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