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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Figures in Landscape 1913 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Self Portrait with Erna Schilling 1913 oil on canvas Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Max Klinger Half-Length Figure Study 1913 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
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| Henri Le Sidaner Country House among Roses 1913 oil on canvas Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp |
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| Wyndham Lewis Drawing for Timon of Athens, Act IV 1913 lithograph Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Wilton Lockwood Peonies 1913 oil on canvas Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| August Macke Clown (Self Portrait) 1913 oil on canvas Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany |
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| August Macke Figures beside Blue Lake 1913 oil on canvas Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe |
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| August Macke Walk on the Bridge 1913 oil on board Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt |
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| Burkhardt Mangold Burger-Kehl & Co. 1913 lithograph (poster advertising chain of clothing stores) Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| John Tinney McCutcheon Effect of the Tariff on Women's Fashions 1913 drawing (print study) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ludwig Meidner Portrait of writer Max Herrmann-Neisse 1913 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean Metzinger Woman with Fan 1913 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pablo Picasso Harlequin 1913 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Laurits Andersen Ring Summer Day in Enø 1913 oil on canvas Ribe Kunstmuseum, Denmark |
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| Paul Sérusier Synchronie en Vert 1913 oil on canvas Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao |
No, Plato, No
I can't imagine anything
that I would less like to be
than a disincarnate Spirit,
unable to chew or sip
or make contact with surfaces
or breathe the scents of summer
or comprehend speech and music
or gaze at what lies beyond.
No, God has placed me exactly
where I'd have chosen to be:
the sub-lunar world is such fun,
where Man is male and female
and gives Proper Names to all things.
I can, however, conceive
that the organs Nature gave Me,
my ductless glands, for instance,
slaving twenty-four hours a day
with no show of resentment
to gratify Me, their Master,
and keep Me in decent shape,
(not that I give them orders,
I wouldn't know what to yell),
dream of another existence
than that they have known so far:
yes, it well could be that my Flesh
is praying for "Him" to die,
so setting Her free to become
irresponsible Matter.
– W.H. Auden (1973)