Artworks

Joseph Beuys

Glass, wood, and metal display case containing (left to right): May 12, 1971 (12. Mai 1971), 1971: plastic pitcher with spade stone, plastic bowl with paint, pine needles, and rice; Bridges of Understanding (Brücke der Verständigung), 1956: cast bronze; Untitled (Musical Score) (Ohne Titel [Partitur]), c. 1973: pencil and stamp on paper; Felt Suit (Filzanzug), 1970: felt; Community Spade (Gemeinschaftsspaten), 1964: spade blade and wood sticks; Cobble Stone (Pflasterstein), 1975: basalt stone · 1956

Charlotte Perriand

Lacquered steel, aluminum, and pine · 1952

Charlotte Perriand

Lacquered steel, aluminum, and pine · 1952

Henri Matisse

Unbound book with letterpress in black, 127 lithographs in sanguine and one lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tucked in white paperboard cover with purple velvet spine and slipcase with lithograph in dark blue on white wove paper · 1948

Raúl Lozza

Oil, alkyd, pine resin, wax, and acrylic on wood and metal wire · 1946

Mary Reynolds

Full black morocco binding with onlay; metal corset stay attached to spine; title stamped in gold on spine; mauve endpapers printed with wire-mesh pattern; original paper covers bound in · 1945

Mary Reynolds

Full red morocco binding with raised bands; author and title stamped in gold on spine; endpapers of trial proofs for Marcel Duchamp's 1935 cover of Minotaure; original paper covers bound in · 1944

Albert Zahn

Painted white pine · 1940

Marcel Duchamp

Full brown, embossed goatskin with brown, embossed calfskin strap; gold stamping on spine; printed endpapers; brown-leather slipcase with paper-thin red cedar wood · 1940

Mary Reynolds

Full tan morocco binding; leather gloves onlaid on front and back covers; author and title stamped in palladium on spine; doublures; silk endpapers; top edge gilt; original paper covers bound in · 1937

Paul Nash

Paper, pine and shale on paper · 1936

Mary Reynolds

Full tan morocco binding; boards die cut in the shape of U; onlays on spine in shape of B; black silk endleaves; crown stamped in gold on front endleaf; author stamped in gold on back endleaf; gilt edges; original paper covers bound in · 1935

Gerrit Rietveld

Lacquered pine · 1934

Mary Reynolds

Full vellum binding, wine-colored morocco label with gold lettering on spine; vellum end leaves; original paper covers bound in · 1934

Gerrit Rietveld

Lacquered pine · 1932

Henri Matisse

Book with letterpress in black and red and 29 etchings in black on cream wove Japanese vellum, bound in brown leather and brown paperboard cover with gold stamped spine · 1932

Tullio d'Albisola (Tullio Spartaco Mazzotti)

Book with lithographed illustrations, text, and typographic designs on 15 tin-plated iron leaves, bound with a cylindrical metal spine · 1932

Pablo Picasso

Text and cover with 67 wood engravings, bound with black tooled leather spine gilded with the title, artist and date, and corners over canvas-covered boards embellished with an impression of the cover wood engraving in gold. 12 etchings hors-texte stored separately. · 1931

José Dolores López

carved pine and aspen · 1930

Mary Reynolds

Heavy boards covered with calf, green outside and black inside; on the front and back are onlays of frogskin; inside boards are reinforced with secondary boards in green with gold lettering, with facing leaves of decorated paper simulating frog skin; the spine is black calf with vertical lines in blind stamping; original paper covers bound in · 1930

Mary Reynolds

Full leather with fluted spine and white- and black-goatskin onlays; orange silk endpapers, emerald and terracotta goatskin doublures, top edge gilt; paper-covered slipcase with goatskin trim and felt lining · 1929

Gerrit Rietveld

Lacquered tubular steel / lacquered plywood / lacquered pine · 1927

Frank Lloyd Wright

Pine and fabric upholstery · 1925

El Lissitzky

Book with offset lithograph, lithography, and letterpress in black and red on cream wove paper, stapled along the spine · 1922