Nicolas de Staël (1914 - 1955)

Nicolas de Staël, Figures au bord de la mer, 1952

Robert Delaunay (1885 -1941)

Robert Delaunay, Champs de Mars, La Tour rouge, 1911

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)

Chaim Soutine, Le Groom (The Bell Boy), 1925-6

Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985)

Jean Dubuffet, Volonté de puissance (Will to Power), 1946

Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955)

Fernand Léger, Three Women (Le Grand Déjeuner), 1921

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)

Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Pablo Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music and Glass, 1912

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), Spring 1910

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)

Henri Matisse, The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room), 1908

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)

Henri Matisse, Dance II, 1910

Henri Matisse, Music, 1910

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)

Henri Matisse, Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude), 1935

Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825)

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793

Edgar Degas, (1834 - 1917)

Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe, 1876

Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947)

Pierre Bonnard, Nu à Contre-Jour, 1908

Yves Klein (1928 - 1962)

Yves Klein, Anthropometry of the Blue Period, 1960

Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry, 1960

Text from MoMA: "Klein employed female models as "living paintbrushes" to make this work and others in his Anthropometry series, named after the study of human body measurements. "In this way," the artist said, "I stayed clean. I no longer dirtied myself with color, not even the tips of my fingers." Klein directed the models, covered in International Klein Blue—his patented blue paint—to make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper. He staged the making of Anthropometries as elaborate performances for an audience, complete with blue cocktails and a performance of his Monotone Symphony—a single note played for twenty minutes, followed by twenty minutes of silence."

 Watch video recordings of Klein's Anthropometries here and here and an interview with one of the models.

Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985)

Jean Dubuffet, Le Metafysix, 1950

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, 1910

Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiller, 1910

Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)

Georges Braque, Bottle and Fishes, c1910-12

André Derain (1880 - 1954)

André Derain, La Danse, 1906