1918 - Art

Art

Painting: Gartenplan by Paul Klee; Engine Rooms, Le Moteur, Propellers, and The Typographer by Fernand Léger, who was mobilized as sapper during the war and found himself working with miners and artisans; Act, Portrait of Baranowski, Seated Young Girl, Seated Man with Orange Background, and Portrait of Mme. Zboroski by Amédéo Modigliani; Friends and Saxonian Landscape by Oskar Kokoschka; Bathing Man by Edvard Munch; Odalisques by Henri Matisse; Still Life: Dead Game by André Derain; Still Life with Coffee by Spanish painter Joan Miró, 25; Hot Spring (Ideyu) by Kokei Kobayashi; William Henry Davies by Augustus John; Landscape of Piquey by Diego Rivera; Red Cross Drive, May 1918 and Flags on Fifty-Seventh Street, The Winter of 1918 by Childe Hassam; Blue Flower by Georgia O'Keeffe; Knitting for the Soldiers by George Luks; Baby by Gustav Klimt, who dies of influenza at Vienna February 6 at age 55; Ferdinand Hodler dies at Geneva May 20 at age 65; Egon Schiele of influenza in his mother-in-law's house at Vienna October 31 at age 28 (his wife, Edith, 6 months pregnant, has died of the flu 3 days earlier).

Sculpture: Muse by Constantin Brancusi.