Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Figures of the 1970s

Robert Rauschenberg
Tanya (Tatyana Grosman)
1974
lithograph
Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

David Hockney
Reclining Figure
1975
etching
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Telemachos Kanthos
Four Captives
1976
woodcut
National Museum, Athens

Agnus Gastmans
Four Lawyers
1976
oil on panel
Museum Gouda

Salvador Dalí
Ten of Swords
(Assassination of Julius Caesar)
1971
gouache and collage on paper
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

Francis Bacon
Three Studies of the Male Back (George Dyer)
1970
oil on canvas
Kunsthaus Zürich

Ivor Abrahams
Figure with Path
(series, Oxford Gardens)
1977
screenprint
National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne

Philip Pearlstein
Female Model on Platform Rocker
1977-78
oil on canvas
Brooklyn Museum

Joe Brainard
Nude with Tattoo
1974
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georg Eisler
Station Waiting Room
1970
oil on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Wieland Förster
Torso of Falling Man
1974
sandstone
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

Lucian Freud
Portrait of Ib
1977-78
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Ralph Goings
Walt's Restaurant
1978-79
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery

Jörg Immendorff
Untitled
1979
acrylic on canvas
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Theodoros Manolidis
The Cocktail
1973
oil on canvas
National Gallery, Athens

Serge Lutens
Parfums Christian Dior
1979
lithograph
(advertising poster)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Why should not old men be mad?
Some have known a likely lad
That had a sound fly fisher's wrist
Turn to a drunken journalist;
A girl that knew all Dante once
Live to bear children to a dunce;
A Helen of social welfare dream
Climb on a wagonette to scream.
Some think it matter of course that chance
Should starve good men and bad advance,
That if their neighbours figured plain,
As though upon a lighted screen,
No single story would they find
Of an unbroken happy mind,
A finish worthy of the start.
Young men know nothing of this sort,
Observant old men know it well;
And when they know what old books tell
And that no better can be had
Know why an old man should be mad.

– W.B. Yeats (1939)