Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)

Max Ernst, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)

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

El Lissitzky (1890 - 1941)

El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!, 1919–1920

Otto Dix (1891 - 1969)

Otto Dix, Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, 1926

George Grosz (1893 - 1959)

George Grosz, The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse, 1927

Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955)

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

Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891 - 1956)

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Pure Red Colour, Pure Yellow Volour, Pure Blue Colour, 1921

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)

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

Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)

Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920

Stuart Davis (1892 - 1964)

Stuart Davis, Odol, 1924

Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935)

Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold, 1928

The painting is a tribute to the poet William Carlos Williams and takes its title from Williams' poem The Great Figure (1916):

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling

Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957)

Wyndham Lewis, Praxitella, 1920-21

Joan Miró (1893 - 1983)

Joan Miró, Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird,1926

Georg Scholz (1890 - 1945)

Georg Scholz, Farmer Picture, aka Industrial Peasants, 1920

Alfred Wallis (1855 - 1942)

Alfred Wallis, Houses at St Ives, Cornwall , circa 1928

René Magritte (1898 - 1967)

René Magritte, La Trahison des Images (The treachery of images) 1928-9

Joan Miró (1893 -1983)

Joan Miró, Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird,1926

Max Ernst (1891 - 1976)

Max Ernst, Celebes, 1921