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Yale University Art Gallery

24 works

Abstract painting of interlocking angular shapes in red, blue, green, yellow, and black with visible brushstrokes.

Composition V

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

White diamond-shaped abstract painting with three thick black lines, two vertical and one horizontal, against a dark backgrou

Fox Trot A

Piet Mondrian, 1930

Abstract painting of overlapping geometric shapes, stripes, and a checkerboard cube in bold blue, red, yellow, and black.

Abstraction (also) Lady in Abstract

Jay Van Everen, 1921

Abstract geometric painting with a shaded rhombus, arcs, a perspective grid and circles in gray, black, white and red.

Proun 99

El Lissitzky, 1923

Cubo-futurist painting of a knife grinder at a wheel, built from angular blue, green, ochre and grey planes.

The Knife Grinder or Principle of Glittering"Hungarian: A késélező The Knife Grinderlabel QS:Lit,"L'arrotino

Kazimir Malevich, 1913

Abstract geometric painting of grey, white and black rectangles, a semicircle and a small red dome in vertical composition.

Composition I

Ragnhild Keyser, 1926

Abstract painting of angular black, grey and cream triangular shapes with dense textured brushwork.

Suprematism (formerly) Abstraction

Aleksandr Drevin, 1921

Abstract painting of interlocking geometric planes and curved forms in black, blue, green, red, pink and yellow.

Composition I

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

Abstract painting of interlocking curved and angular shapes in blue, red, orange, green, pink and white.

Abstraction

Jay Van Everen, 1920

Abstract painting of interlocking angular shapes in red, black, white, blue and green, by Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916.

Composition II

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

Abstract painting of interlocking geometric shapes and curves in bold reds, blues, yellows, and purples.

Composition III

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

Painting of green and yellow plums heaped in a white bowl on a white cloth, painted in loose, faceted brushstrokes.

Plums

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1912

Abstract painting of overlapping angular shapes in red, black, blue, green, yellow and white with textured brushwork.

Composition IV

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

Abstract watercolor of blue, purple, teal and black organic shapes clustered like stylized flowers on pale paper.

Abstraction Based on Flower Forms, III

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Constructivist print with geometric machine forms, a black wheel, red and yellow shapes, and multilingual lettering on cream

Figurines: The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show “Victory over the Sun"

El Lissitzky, 1920

Abstract geometric composition of overlapping pastel shapes in pink, green, blue and red, signed G. Valmier, 1922.

Composition (No. 7888)

Georges Valmier, 1922

Abstract watercolor of overlapping yellow, pink, black and teal triangles and shapes, with teal wavy stripes at lower right.

Abstraction Based on Sails, X

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Pencil and color drawing of geometric planes and diagonal lines in perspective, with an ochre panel and black bars on beige p

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El Lissitzky, 1922

Black and white woodcut of abstract white triangular and curved shapes on a black field, signed in pencil below.

Composition

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, 1921

Abstract watercolor drawing of overlapping blue, ochre, grey and black geometric and curved sail-like shapes.

Abstraction Based on Sails, V

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Abstract watercolor of red, black, and ochre organic shapes and wavy lines on a pale background, signed David Kakabadzé 1921.

Abstraction Based on Flower Forms, IV

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Black and white woodcut of stylized trees and angular branches forming a dense park scene pattern.

Park Scene

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, 1914

Watercolor abstraction of overlapping orange, blue, teal and gray triangles arranged like sails, signed and dated 1921.

Abstraction Based on Sails, VII

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Black and white woodcut print with bold abstract angular shapes and white linear forms on thin paper.

The Forest

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, 1914