Monday, June 8, 2026

Silent

Louise Nevelson
Royal Game I
1961
painted wood
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York


Gerhard Richter
7.4.89
1989
oil on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1916
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gillis Neyts
Seated Woman with Fan
before 1687
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Louise Nevelson
That Silent Place
1954-55
painted wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild 780-1
1992
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1938
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gillis Neyts
Seated Woman with Veil
before 1687
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Louise Nevelson
Untitled
1963
lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
1984
oil on linen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Giorgio Morandi
Still Life
1949
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gillis Neyts
Standing Woman
before 1687
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Louise Nevelson
Big Black
1963
painted wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
1984
oil on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Giorgio Morandi
Still-Life
1952
oil on canvas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Gillis Neyts
Young Man with Hand on Hip
before 1687
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Louise Nevelson
Sky Cathedral
1958
painted wood
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Eyes, unwashed jewels, the glass floor slipping, feel, know Day,
Life stripped to girders, monochrome.  Deceit of instinct,
Features, figure, form irrelevant, dismissed
Ought passes through points fair plotted and you conform,
Seen yes or no, too just for weeping argument.

– W.H. Auden (1927)