The Girls of Avignon
1907 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Five nude women stare out with their faces turned into masks, and Picasso kept the canvas rolled up in his studio for years.
★ 9.2
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Showing 35 works across all media from 1907
Portrait of Adele Block Bauer
1907 · Neue Galerie, New York City
Only the face and hands are painted naturally and the rest is gold. The Nazis seized it, and a long restitution case eventually got it back.
★ 8.0
The Snake Charmer
1907 · Musee d'Orsay, Paris
A black silhouette plays a flute and the snakes come out of the leaves toward the music, in moonlight Rousseau invented entirely.
★ 7.6
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
The Secret Agent
1907 · 320 pages
Conrad wrote the first great modern novel of terrorism. Verloc keeps a seedy London shop, informs on anarchists for a foreign embassy, and is ordered to bomb the Greenwich Observatory to frighten England.
★ 6.9
Pragmatism and Other Writings
1907 · 358 pages
Truth is not something ideas possess but something that happens to them when they work, James argues. He sets friends bickering over a squirrel to show the quarrel is merely verbal.
★ 6.6
Danae
1907 · Private collection
Zeus arrives as a stream of gold coins and ornament between her thighs, and Klimt makes no attempt to be subtle about it.
★ 6.3
Jealousy
1907 · The Munch Museum, Oslo
A sallow green face fills the front of the picture while behind him a woman in red picks fruit beside another man. He is imagining it.
★ 5.4
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
Landscape at La Ciotat
1907 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Hot pinks and oranges laid on freely, a year before Cézanne and Picasso's Demoiselles sent Braque off toward Cubism instead.
★ 4.8
Self-Portrait (Rivera)
1907 · Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City
Rivera as a student in Europe, years before the murals, still working inside the academic tradition he would later blow up.
★ 4.2
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907
The Education of Henry Adams · 1907