Grandiloquences

Paintings, performers, and other passions ... in the grand manner (or not)

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From the Bus, New York, Photo by Robert Frank, 1958

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Model in a Brooks Brothers shirt Photographer: John Rawlings (American; 1912–1970) Vogue, August 15, 1949

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David Bailey, Veruschka, 1965 Bert Stern (American; 1929–2013) Gelatin silver print Christie’s, London

Signed in red crayon and titled in pencil (verso)

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Fishing Boats, Collioure (Bateaux, pêcheurs, Collioure) André Derain (French; 1880–1954) 1905 Oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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La Roue de la Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune) Edward Burne-Jones (British; 1833–1898) 1875–83 Oil on canvas Musée d’Orsay, Paris

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Evil Omen Adolph Gottlieb (American; 1903–1974) 1946 Oil on canvas Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

“I disinterred some relics from the secret crypt of Melpomene to unite them through the pictograph, which has its own internal logic. Like those early painters, who placed their images on the grounds of rectangular compartments, I juxtaposed my pictographic images, each self-contained within the painter’s rectangle, to be ultimately fused within the mind of the beholder.”

— Adolph Gottlieb’s statement in the exhibition catalogue for Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, 1944

© The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/Licensed by ARS, New York, NY

@neubergermuseum @gottliebfoundation

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“Deauville, La Plage.” Lucien Adrion (French; 1889–1953). Oil on canvas, undated. Lempertz, Cologne.

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Paris’ dom (The Judgement of Paris) Harald Giersing (Danish; 1881–1927) 1909 Oil on composition board Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen

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Assiette plate, service “Lambert-Rousseau” Henri Lambert (French; 1836–1909) Faïence fine, décor imprimé et peint sous couverte after 1884 Manufactory: Creil et Montereau; Lebeuf, Milliet et Cie Musée d’Orsay, Paris © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt Eugène Rousseau (French; 1827–1890), editor

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Three “Hommage à Piet Mondrian" Cocktail Dresses Fall/Winter 1965–66 Wool Photographer: Eric Koch (Dutch; b. 1940)

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Azor (Hokusai Manga style) Henri-Charles Guérard (French; 1846–1897) ca. 1888 Etching The New York Public Library, Print Collection

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Three Dancers Edgar Degas (French; 1834–1917) ca. 1898 Pastel on paper Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark

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The Israelites Dancing Around the Golden Calf Sébastien Bourdon (French; 1616–1671) Pen and brown ink, brown and white oil paint, ca. 1645 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. (Exodus 32:18–19)

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The Mystery of the Night Alphonse Osbert (French; 1857–1939) 1897 Collection Lucile Audouy, © Thomas Hennocque

On view: Into the Dreams: Symbolism, Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark (February 5–June 15, 2025)

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Concert Valentin de Boulogne (French; 1591–1632) ca. 1615 Oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Landscape. Summer. “Ryet” Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish; 1864–1916) 1896 Oil on canvas Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark

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Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin Paul Gauguin 1889 Oil on canvas National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic