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Frida Kahlo. Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair. 1940. Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 × 11" (40 × 27.9 cm). Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. © 2019 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

517: Surrealist Objects

Ongoing

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Collection gallery

508: According to the Laws of Chance

Ongoing

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Norman Lewis, Phantasy II, 1946. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 35 7/8" (71.4 x 91.2 cm). Gift of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: John Wronn

401: Out of War

Fall 2019 - Winter 2023

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Max Ernst. The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses (La Biciclette graminée garnie de grelots les grisons grivelés et les échinodermes courbants l'échine pour quêter des caresses). c. 1921. Gouache, ink, and pencil on printed paper on paperboard, 29 1/4 x 39 1/4" (74.3 x 99.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1937. © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Robert Gerhardt

Max Ernst: Beyond Painting

Sep 23, 2017–Jan 1, 2018

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Mark Leckey. UniAddDumThs. Installation view, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, May 25–July 16, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise

Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers

Oct 23, 2016–Mar 5, 2017

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Francis Picabia. Tableau Rastadada. 1920. Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper with ink, 7 1⁄2 × 6 3⁄4″ (19 × 17.1 cm). Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (by exchange), 2014. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Dadaglobe Reconstructed

Jun 12–Sep 18, 2016

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Installation view of the exhibition, Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation. November 20, 2004–December 31, 2005. IN1931.4. Photograph by Thomas Griesel

Painting & Sculpture II

Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013

Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013

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Steve Gianakos. She Could Hardly Wait. 1996. Oil and ink on cut-and-pasted printed paper, 27 x 27 1/2" (68.6 x 69.9 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift. © 2012 Steve Gianakos

Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration

Mar 14–Jul 9, 2012

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Bruce Nauman. *Waxing Hot, from the portfolio Eleven Color Photographs. 1966–67/1970/2007. Inkjet print (originally chromogenic color print), 19 15/16 × 19 15/16″ (50.6 × 50.6 cm). Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gerald S. Elliott Collection. © 2010 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today

Aug 1–Nov 1, 2010

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Mark Rothko. Archaic Idol. 1945. Ink and gouache on paper, 21 7/8 × 30″ (55.6 × 76.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection, 1978. © 2000 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times

Mar 10–Aug 30, 2010

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Rodolfo Abularach. Enigmatic Eye I (Ojo Enigmatico I). 1969. Lithograph, composition 22 5/8 × 29 3/8″ (57.4 × 74.6 cm); sheet 22 5/8 × 29 3/8″ (57.4 × 74.6 cm). Publisher: the artist, New York. Printer: Atelier Mourlot, Ltd., New York. Edition: 100. Inter-American Fund. © 2016 Rodolfo Abularach

Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities

Jul 30–Nov 10, 2008

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Untitled (Dada Head). 1920. Oil on turned wood, h. 11 9/16″ (29.4 cm). Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Paris. Purchase, 2003. CNAC/MNAM/Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. © 2006 Sophie Taeuber-Arp/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bon

Dada

Jun 18–Sep 11, 2006

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Drawing from the Modern, 1880 - 1945

Nov 20, 2004–Mar 7, 2005

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Jacques de la Villeglé. 122 rue du Temple. 1968. Torn and collaged painted and printed paper on linen, 62 5/8″ × 6' 10 3/4″ (159.2 × 210.3 cm). Gift of Joachim Aberbach (by exchange). © 2004 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to Now

Apr 28–Aug 1, 2004

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Ellsworth Kelly. Wild Grape. 1960. Pencil on two sheets of paper, overall: 28 1/2 × 25″ (72.4 × 114.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Kathy and Richard Fuld, Jr. in honor of Ellsworth Kelly’s 80th birthday. © 2003 Ellsworth Kelly

Pencil: Drawings from the Collection

Sep 18, 2003–Mar 8, 2004

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Jean (Hans) Arp. Two Heads. 1929. Painted wood relief, 47 1/4 × 39 1/4″ (120 × 99.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2000 ARS, N.Y./VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Making Choices

Mar 16–Sep 26, 2000

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Kurt Schwitters. Merz Picture 32A. Cherry Picture (Merzbild 32A. Kas Kirschbild). 1921. Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, cloth, wood, metal, cork, oil, gouache, pencil, and ink on cardboard, 36 1/8 × 27 3/4″ (91.8 × 70.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. A. Atwater Kent, Jr. Fund

Collecting in Depth: Drawings by Grosz, Schwitters, Ernst, and Klee

May 13–Jul 20, 1999

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Sight Gags: Grotesque, Caricature and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawings

Jan 21–May 5, 1999

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Joan Miró. Plate 8 from Black and Red Series (Série noire et rouge). 1938. Etching, 6 5/8 × 10 1/8ʺ (16.8 × 26.8 cm). Purchased with the Frances Keech Fund and funds given by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Gilbert Kaplan, Jeanne C. Thayer, Reba and Dave Williams, Ann and Lee Fensterstock, Linda Barth Goldstein, Walter Bareiss, Mrs. Melville Wakeman Hall, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Schimmel. © 2016 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Miró’s Black and Red Series: A New Acquisition in Context

Nov 19, 1998–Feb 2, 1999

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Fernand Léger. La Grande Julie (Big Julie). 1945. Oil on canvas. 44 × 50 1/8″ (111.8 × 127.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, 1945. Photograph © 1998 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Estate of Fernand Léger/Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y.

Fernand Léger

Feb 15–May 12, 1998

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A. R. Penck (Ralf Winkler). Untitled plate from the portfolio Ur End Standart. 1972. One from a portfolio of fifteen screenprints; composition (irreg.): 24 13/16 × 24 1/8″ (63 × 61.3 cm); sheet: 27 3/16 × 27 3/16″ (69 × 69 cm). Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund. © 2016 A.R. Penck

More than One: Twentieth-Century Print Portfolios

May 16–Sep 2, 1997

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Fantastic Prints

Feb 6–May 6, 1997

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Installation view of Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Erik Landsberg

Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque

Feb 10–May 21, 1996

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Impressions of Nature

Sep 16, 1995–Jan 2, 1996

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Paul Gauguin. Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent) from Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent). 1894, printed 1921. One from a series of eight woodcuts, composition: 14 × 8 1/16″ (35.5 × 20.5 cm); sheet: 16 5/8 × 10 9/16″ (42.3 × 26.8 cm). Publisher: Pola Gauguin, Copenhagen. Printer: Pola Gauguin, Copenhagen. Edition: 100. Lillie P. Bliss Collection. Photo: Thomas Griesel

A Century of Artists Books

Oct 23, 1994–Jan 24, 1995

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Paul Klee. Tightrope Walker (Seiltänzer) from the portfolio Art of the Present (Die Kunst der Gegenwart). 1923. Lithograph, composition: 17 1/16 × 10 5/8″ (43.4 × 27 cm); sheet: 17 15/16 × 11 1/8″ (45.6 × 28.3 cm). Publisher: Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., Munich. Printer: Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar. Edition: 300. Given anonymously. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Three Masters of the Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee

Jan 27–May 17, 1994

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Joan Miró. Woman and Dog in Front of the Moon (Femme et chien devant la lune). 1935, published 1936. Pochoir, composition: 20 3/16 × 17 7/8″ (51.3 × 45.4 cm); sheet: 25 11/16 × 19 5/8″ (65 × 49.8 cm). Publisher: Group Adlan, Barcelona. Printer: unknown. Edition: 60. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw (by exchange). © 2016 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Miró Prints and Books from New York Collections

Oct 17, 1993–Jan 11, 1994

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Barbara Kruger. Untitled (Printed Matter Matters). (1989). Photolithograph, offset printed and engraved typography, plate 23 5/16 × 21 1/4″ (59.2 × 54 cm), sheet 25 × 23″ (63 × 58.5 cm). Riva Castleman Fund. © 2017 Barbara Kruger

Reading Prints

Mar 4–Jul 6, 1993

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture

Jul 1, 1993

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Max Ernst. The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses. c. 1921. Gouache, ink, and pencil on printed paper on paperboard, 29 1/4 × 39 1/4ʺ (74.3 × 99.7 cm). Purchase. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism

Mar 14–May 2, 1993

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Selections From The Collection (1992)

Sep 9, 1992–Feb 21, 1993

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture

May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992

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Modern Drawing from 1881–1940

May 28–Jul 20, 1992

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Master Prints from the Collection

Nov 21, 1991–Mar 24, 1992

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The Modern Still Life: Selections from the Drawing Collection

Sep 19, 1991–Jan 15, 1992

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The Surrealist Drawing: A Selection from the Collection

Apr 18–Sep 3, 1991

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Pablo Picasso. The Charnel House. Paris, 1944–45. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 6′ 6 5/8″ × 8′ 2 1/2″ (199.8 × 250.1 cm). Mrs. Sam A. Lewisohn Bequest (by exchange), and Mrs. Marya Bernard Fund in memory of her husband Dr. Bernard Bernard, and anonymous funds. © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Art of the Forties

Feb 24–Apr 30, 1991

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Still Life Into Object

Nov 22, 1990–Mar 19, 1991

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Drawn in America, 1898–1945

Nov 1, 1990–Mar 5, 1991

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture

Oct 7, 1990–Jan 15, 1991

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Drawing in Europe, 1881–1938

Jul 19–Sep 21, 1990

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Master Prints from the Collection

Apr 6–Aug 8, 1989

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Abstractions

Nov 17, 1988–Mar 26, 1989

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Nov 3, 1988–Feb 28, 1989

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

The Modern Poster

Jun 6–Sep 6, 1988

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The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

European Drawing Between the Wars

Oct 24, 1987–Mar 1, 1988

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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Aug 6–Dec 8, 1987

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