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This is a vertically arranged abstract print that incorporates sets of facial features (and perhap legs) that stare out at the viewer. The colors in the print are predominately yellow on the right and black on the left; green, red, and white are also used.
Adja Yunkers (American (North American))
Succubae
1950
Museum Purchase
1950/2.22B
This image is one of twelve photographs from Brassaï's <em>Transmutations</em> portfolio. In this photograph, Brassaï has drawn on a negative of a female figure using the cliché-verre process. The resulting image portrays a female nude partially abstracted into geometric shapes.
Brassaï (French (culture or style))
Carnival
1934 – 1967
Museum Purchase
1971/2.150.12

Richard Lindner
Shoot V, from "Shoot"
1971
Gift of Mr. Natan Goldenberg
1977/2.42

André Masson (French (culture or style))
The Industrial Beast (La Bête industrielle), Plate IX from "Bestiary (Bestiaire)"
1945
Museum Purchase
1956/1.43
This image is one of twelve photographs from Brassaï's <em>Transmutations</em> portfolio. In this photograph, Brassaï has drawn on a negative of a female figure using the cliché-verre process. The resulting image portrays a female nude partially abstracted into geometric shapes.
Brassaï (French (culture or style))
Mineral Countenance
1934 – 1967
Museum Purchase
1971/2.150.7

Blanche Grambs (American (North American))
Girl With Blue Hair
1939
Allocated by the U.S. Government Commissioned through the New Deal art projects
1943.42
This is one of a pair of Javanese bells. A talon-like vajra sits atop the bronze handle. Lotus petals decorate the base, and the faces encircling the the bell above them depict Prajnaparamita, the bodhisattva aspect of “Perfection of Wisdom.”
Indonesian
Prayer Bell (Lontjeng) (One of a Pair)
1500 – 1699
Museum Purchase
1957/2.53

Edmond-François Aman-Jean
Portrait of Mlle. Moreno
1897
Donated by Ingrid Hendrickx
1981/2.81
Cylindrical vessel with handle and a slightly buldging base. The rim is extended with faces designed on the inside of the rim's lip. There are linear design patterns wrapped around the cylinder portion of the vessel. 
Kuba (Kuba (Democratic Republic of Congo style))
Vessel
1935 – 1945
Museum purchase
1985/2.3

André Masson (French (culture or style))
Bestiaire. X. Ils se Dévorent entre eux
1945
Museum Purchase
1956/1.44
A human face in anguish, with hands raised to his cheeks, looks out from the center of a visual field full of slashing diagonals and explosive triangles of color. On the left side, smoke billows.
Otto Dix
Artillery Battle (Artillerieschlacht)
1917
Museum Purchase
1967/1.41
White earthenware &ldquo;sleeping&rdquo; head lying on its right cheek (right ear omitted to lay flat) with a geometric section of crown removed. The cut at the head is painted terra cotta, the cut at the neck painted with a landscape of a tree at the edge of a cliff. A forest scene set against pink mountains covers the face, and desert rock formations in silhouette cover the back of the head.
Michael Lucero
Untitled (Head)
1980 – 1990
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.245
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