Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519
Oil and tempera on spruce
29.9 × 28.3 cm
Acquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett
Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519
Paul Klee, Senecio (Soon to be Aged), 1922
Oil on chalk primer on gauze on cardboard, original yellow-framed frame.
40.3 x 37.4 cm
Purchase, 1931
Senecio (Soon to be Aged), 1922
Clyfford Still, 1957 - D No. 2, 1957
Oil on cotton
289 × 407.3 cm
Donated by the Swiss National Insurance Company on the occasion of its seventy- fth anniversary ( 1958 ), 1959
1957 - D No. 2, 1957
Pablo Picasso, Seated Harlequin, 1923
Oil on canvas
130.2 × 97.1 cm
Permanent loan from the City of Basel, 1967
Seated Harlequin, 1923
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Henri Rousseau, Jungle with Setting Sun, ca. 1910
Oil on canvas
113.6 × 162.3 cm
Purchased 1948
Jungle with Setting Sun, ca. 1910
Piet Mondrian, Composition No.I, with Red and Black, 1929
Oil on canvas
52.3 × 52.2 cm
Donated by Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, 1968
Composition No.I, with Red and Black, 1929
Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Japanese Print, 1887
Oil on canvas
43.2 × 33.9 cm
Permanent loan of the Dr. h.c. Emile Dreyfus Foundation, 1970
Self-Portrait with a Japanese Print, 1887
Frank Stella, Ifafa II, 1964
Powdered metal and acrylic on canvas
197 × 331.5 × 7.5 cm
Purchased 1970
Ifafa II, 1964
Andy Warhol, Ten-foot Flowers, 1967–1968
Screen printing ink on grounded canvas
293.3 × 293.2 cm
Purchased 1972
Ten-foot Flowers, 1967–1968
Edgar Degas, Injured Jockey, ca. 1896-1898
Oil on canvas
180.6 × 150.9 cm
Purchased with special funding from the City of Basel, 1963
Injured Jockey, ca. 1896-1898
Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus of Rotterdam Writing, 1523
Oil and tempera on paper, mounted on fir wood
37.1 × 30.8 cm
Acquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett, 1662
Erasmus of Rotterdam Writing, 1523
Ferdinand Hodler, Lake of Geneva, seen from Chexbres, 1905
Oil on canvas
82.1 × 104.2 cm
Birmann Fund, 1905
Lake of Geneva, seen from Chexbres, 1905
Arnold Böcklin, Island of the Dead, 1880
Oil on canvas
110.9 × 156.4 cm
Permanent loan of the Gottfried Keller Foundation, 1920
Island of the Dead, 1880
Paul Klee, Villa R, 1919
Oil on cardboard
26.5 × 22.4 cm
Purchased with a special grant from the City of Basel, 1939
Villa R, 1919
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1962
Cadmium red oil on fir wood with synthetic resin painted iron pipe
121.5 × 83.5 × 55.5 cm
Purchased 1984
Untitled, 1962
Paul Gauguin, Ta matete ( The Market ), 1892
Oil on burlap
73.2 × 91.5 cm
Donated by Dr. h.c. Robert von Hirsch, 1941
Ta matete ( The Market ), 1892
El Lissitzky, Proun 1 D, ca. 1919
Oil on canvas on plywood
71.6 × 96.1 cm
Donation from the Oskar and Annie Müller-Widmann Collection, 1965
Proun 1 D, ca. 1919
Claude Monet, The Rock Needle and the Porte d’Aval, 1884
Oil on canvas
60.2 × 81.5 cm
Permanent loan of the Dr. h.c. Emile Dreyfus Foundation, 1970
The Rock Needle and the Porte d’Aval, 1884
Martin Kippenberger, Profit Peaks with Wirtschaftswerte by Joseph Beuys II, 1985
Oil, silicon, multiples by Joseph Beuys on canvas
150 × 180 cm
Purchased with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation, 2010
Profit Peaks with Wirtschaftswerte by Joseph Beuys II, 1985
Alexander Calder, Big Spider, 1959
Iron, painted black
296 × 395.6 × 339 cm
Donated by Dr. h.c. Maja Sacher-Stehlin on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Basel University, 1960
Big Spider, 1959
Pablo Picasso, Esquisse pour "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon", 1907
Black chalk and pastel over pencil on paper
47.7 × 63.5 cm
Kupferstichkabinett, donated by the artist to the City of Basel; permanent loan of the City of Basel, 1967
Esquisse pour "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon", 1907
Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Woman, ca. 1520
Oil and tempera on lime wood
29.8 × 17.1 cm
Museum Faesch, 1823
Death and the Woman, ca. 1520
Max Beckmann, The Nizza in Frankfurt on the Main, 1921
Oil on canvas
100.1 × 65.3 cm
Purchased with a special grant from the City of Basel, 1939, inv. 1737
The Nizza in Frankfurt on the Main, 1921
Claude Monet, The Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond, 1919
Oil on canvas
65.6 x 106.4 cm
Acquired with a special loan from the Basel government and a contribution from the Max Geldner Foundation, 1986
The Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond, 1919
Joseph Beuys, Hearth II, 1978–1979
Installation with elements made from copper, iron, felt, wood, and white chalk
height of vertical rods : 92 cm
Acquired with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation, the purchase loan, and the Gallery Fund, 1977/Donated by the artist with the participation of others including the Alti Richtig Carnival society, 1979
Hearth II, 1978–1979
Konrad Witz, Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate, ca. 1437– 40
Oil and tempera on spruce lined with canvas
158 × 121 cm
Donated by Prof. Louise-Elisabeth Bachofen-Burckhardt, 1894
Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate, ca. 1437– 40
Andy Warhol, Ginger Rogers, 1962
Bleistift auf festem Zeichenpapier
Blatt 60.3 × 45.7 cm
Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds 1972
Ginger Rogers, 1962
Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of the Artist ’s Wife with the Two Oldest Children, ca. 1528/29
Oil and tempera on paper, cut out round the contours of the gures and mounted on lime wood
79.4 × 64.7 cm
Acquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett
Portrait of the Artist ’s Wife with the Two Oldest Children, ca. 1528/29
Andreas Gursky, Frankfurt, 2007
C-print ( laser print ) / Diasec, framed ; ed. 1 / 6
238 × 506 cm
Purchased with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation and the Friends of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2008
Frankfurt, 2007
Konrad Witz, Saint Christopher, ca. 1435–1445
Oil and tempera on oak
101.5 × 81 cm
Donated by Friedrich August La Roche-Burckhardt, 1868
Saint Christopher, ca. 1435–1445
Marc Chagall, Cattle Dealer, 1912
Oil on canvas
97.1 × 202.5 cm
Acquired with a donation from Dr. h.c. Richard Doetsch-Benziger, 1948
Cattle Dealer, 1912
Egon Schiele, Woman Lying on Her Back, 1914
Pencil and gouache
31.8 × 48.2 cm
Woman Lying on Her Back, 1914
Paul Cézanne, Five Bathers, 1885/1887
Oil on canvas
65.3 × 65.3 cm
Acquired with funding from the City of Basel, the Max Geldner Foundation, and private patrons, 1960
Five Bathers, 1885/1887
Pablo Picasso, The Two Brothers, 1906
Oil on canvas
141.4 x 97.1 cm
Deposit of the Einwohnergemeinde der Stadt Basel, 1967
The Two Brothers, 1906
Robert Delaunay, Homage to Blériot, 1914
Glue-bound distemper on canvas
250 × 251 cm
Purchased 1962
Homage to Blériot, 1914
Mark Rothko, No.16 (Red, White and Brown), 1957
Oil on canvas
252.5 × 207.3 cm
Donated by the Swiss National Insurance Company on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary (1958)
No.16 (Red, White and Brown), 1957
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, A Culmination, 2016
Oil on canvas
200.5 x 250 x 3.8 cm
Purchase
A Culmination, 2016
Barnett Newman, White Fire II, 1960
Mixed media on unprimed canvas
244 × 193 cm
Purchased 1973
White Fire II, 1960
Amedeo Modigliani, Marie ( Marie, Daughter of the People ), 1918
Oil on canvas
61.2 × 49.8 cm
Bequest of Dr. Walther Hanhart, Riehen, 1975
Marie ( Marie, Daughter of the People ), 1918
Hans Baldung gen. Grien, Youthful Self-Portrait, ca. 1502
Pen and black ink, heightened with pink and white, on bluegreen prepared paper
22 × 16 cm
Amerbach-Kabinett, 1662
Youthful Self-Portrait, ca. 1502
Gerhard Richter, Motorboat, 1965
Oil on canvas
170 × 170 cm
Donated by the Hanspeter Schulthess-Oeri Fund, 1977
Motorboat, 1965
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Judgment of Paris, 1528
Oil and tempera on beech
84.7 × 57 cm
Donated by Martha and Robert von Hirsch, Basel, 1977
The Judgment of Paris, 1528
Edvard Munch, Road in Åsgårdstrand, 1901
Oil on canvas
88.3 × 113.8 cm
Donated by Sigrid Schwarz von Spreckelsen and Sigrid Katharina Schwarz, 1979
Road in Åsgårdstrand, 1901
Jasper Johns, Flag Above White with Collage, 1955
Encaustic and collage (newspaper) on canvas
56.2 × 48.6 cm
Donated by the artist in memory of Christian Geelhaar, 1994, inv. G 1994.1
Flag Above White with Collage, 1955
Paul Cézanne, Study for “The Eternal Feminine”, ca. 1870/75
Pencil and black chalk on paper
17.8 × 23.7 cm
Acquired 1934
Study for “The Eternal Feminine”, ca. 1870/75
Paul Klee, Siebzehn irr, 1923
Feder und Aquarell auf Papier, aufgezogen auf Karton
22.3 × 28.6 cm
Legat Richard Doetsch-Benziger
Siebzehn irr, 1923
Félix Vallotton, The Pond (Honfleur), 1909
Oil on canvas
73.2 × 100.2 cm
Permanent loan of the Friends of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1995
The Pond (Honfleur), 1909
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait as a Half-Length Nude with Amber Necklace II, 1906
Oil on canvas
61.1 x 50 cm
Acquired with a special loan from the Basel government, 1939
Self-Portrait as a Half-Length Nude with Amber Necklace II, 1906
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Equilibrium, 1934
Oil on canvas
99.8 x 73.3 cm
Donation Hans Arp, 1966
Equilibrium, 1934
Sam Gilliam, Rondo, 1971
Acrylic paint on canvas with oak beams
261.6 x 365.8 x 198.1 cm
Acquired with funds from the Arnold Rüdlinger Fund, Voluntary Academic Society Basel
Peinture acrylique sur toile avec poutres en chêne
Rondo, 1971
Walter De Maria, Beds of Spikes, 1968–1969
Stainless steel; five plates mounted with 307 spikes
each plate 33.5 × 200 × 106 cm, each spike 27 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm
Purchased 1996
Beds of Spikes, 1968–1969
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Erich Lederer, 1912–1913
Oil and gouache on canvas
140 × 55.4 cm
Donated by Mrs. Erich Lederer-von Jacobs in memory of her deceased husband, 1986
Portrait of Erich Lederer, 1912–1913
Constantin Brancusi, Torso of a Young Woman, 1918
Marble on limestone base
33 × 20.4 × 19.4 cm; base: 21.2 × 21.2 × 17.2 cm
Acquired with funding from the Acquisitions Fund, a special grant from the Basel Great Council, and private gifts, 1980
Torso of a Young Woman, 1918
Martha Rosler, Frontier, from the Series: House Beautiful: The Colonies, ca. 1969-72
Inkjet on Epson Premium paper; Ed. 1/10 + 2 AP
64.5 x 56.3 cm
Purchase
Frontier, from the Series: House Beautiful: The Colonies, ca. 1969-72
Joseph Anton Koch, Macbeth and the Witches, 1829/1830
Oil on canvas
114 × 155.2 cm
Donated by Emilie Linder, 1849
Macbeth and the Witches, 1829/1830
Alberto Giacometti, Suspended Ball, 1930
Plaster, metal
61 x 35.6 x 37.3 cm
Deposit of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation
Suspended Ball, 1930
Sari Dienes, Screen Bark, 1950s
Plaster collage on copper grid, tree bark and wire
54.6 x 40.7 cm
Gift of the estate of Sari Dienes to the Kunstmuseum Basel, received in connection with a perpetual permanent loan from the Michel Hüni Foundation
Screen Bark, 1950s
Oskar Kokoschka, The Wind’ s Bride ( The Tempest ), 1913
Oil on canvas
180.4 × 220.2 cm
Acquired with a special grant from the City of Basel, 1939
The Wind’ s Bride ( The Tempest ), 1913
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 1521–1522
Oil and tempera on lime wood
32.4 × 202.1 cm
Acquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett, 1662
The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 1521–1522
Sebastian Stoskopff, Glutherd mit Artischocke, Grünspechte und Wasserzuber mit Karpfen,
Öl auf Leinwand
54.5 × 72.8 cm
Vermächtnis Noetzlin-Werthemann 1928
Glutherd mit Artischocke, Grünspechte und Wasserzuber mit Karpfen,
Bruce Nauman, Seven Virtues and Seven Vices, 1983
Glass and neon tubes
30.5 x 1524 cm (minimum width, dimensions variable)
Donation of Katharina and Wilfrid Steib, Basel
Seven Virtues and Seven Vices, 1983
Jasper Johns, Out the Window Number 2, 1962
Oil on canvas with objects (wire, metal spoon, piece of folding rule)
183.3 × 122.3 cm
Donated by the artist in memory of Christian Geelhaar, 1994
Out the Window Number 2, 1962
Georges Braque, Pitcher and Violin, 1909/1910
Oil on canvas
116.8 × 73.2 cm
Donated by Dr. h.c. Raoul La Roche, 1952
Pitcher and Violin, 1909/1910
Max Ernst, The Great Forest, 1927
Oil on canvas
113.8 x 145.9 cm
Acquired with a contribution by Dr. Emanuel Hoffmann-Stehlin, 1932
The Great Forest, 1927
Barnett Newman, Day Before One, 1951
Oil on cotton
334.7 × 127.3 cm
Donated by the Swiss National Insurance Company on the occasion of its seventy- fth anniversary ( 1958 ), 1959
Day Before One, 1951
Paul Cézanne, Le Monte Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves, 1904/1906
Oil on canvas
59.9 x 72.2 cm
Acquired with contributions from the Government of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, the Department of Education of Basel-Stadt, the company CIBA AG, the company J. R. Geigy AG, the company Sandoz AG and from the MeisterwerkFonds, 1955.
Le Monte Sainte-Victoire vu des Lauves, 1904/1906
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Stafelalp, Return of the Animals, 1919
Oil on canvas
120.5 x 168 cm
Donation Eberhard W. Kornfeld 2017
Stafelalp, Return of the Animals, 1919
Georges Seurat, Woman with an Umbrella, ca. 1884–86
Conté crayon on Michallet paper
31.7 × 24.7 cm
Mit einem Sonderkredit des Basler Grossen Rates erworben 1978
Woman with an Umbrella, ca. 1884–86
Franz Marc, Animal Destinies (The Trees Showed Their Rings, the Animals Their Veins), 1913
Oil on canvas
194.7 x 263.5 cm
Acquired with a special loan from the Basel government, 1939
Animal Destinies (The Trees Showed Their Rings, the Animals Their Veins), 1913
Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, 1967
Glass and neon tubing; ed.3/3+1AP
150 × 140 x 5 cm
Purchased 1978
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, 1967
Vincent van Gogh, Marguerite Gachet au piano, 1890
Oil on canvas
102.5 x 50 cm
Purchase, 1934
Marguerite Gachet au piano, 1890
William Kentridge, More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015
8-channel video installation, AP 1 of an edition of 9 + 3 AP, 4 megaphones, HD video, colour, sound, 15 min; music: Joahnnes Serekeho; edited by Janus Fouché
Mass variable
Gift in honour of Josef Helfenstein
More Sweetly Play the Dance, 2015
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Holy Family, ca. 1519
Pen and brush in black and grey wash, heightened in white, on reddish-brown prepared paper
42.7 × 30.8 cm
Amerbach-Kabinett
The Holy Family, ca. 1519
Fernand Léger, The Woman in Blue, 1912
Oil on canvas
193.4 x 129.2 cm
Donation Dr. h.c. Raoul La Roche, 1952
The Woman in Blue, 1912
Andy Warhol, Black and White Disaster #4 [5 Deaths 17 Times in Black and White], 1963
Acrylic, silkscreen and pencil on canvas
Two parts, each 261.9 x 209 cm
Purchase
Black and White Disaster #4 [5 Deaths 17 Times in Black and White], 1963
Ferdinand Hodler, Communion with the Infinite, 1892
Oil on canvas
159 × 97.2 cm
Birmann Fund, 1910
Communion with the Infinite, 1892
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Femme dans und jardin (Femme à la mouette), 1868
Oil on canvas
105.5 x 73.4 cm
Acquired with a special loan from the Basel government and numerous private contributions, 1988
Femme dans und jardin (Femme à la mouette), 1868
Oberrhein (Elsass) 15. Jh., Ornamental designs with birds perched on tendrils and banderoles, 1470/80
Pen (black)
21.6 x 26.3 cm
Kupferstichkabinett, Museum Faesch
Ornamental designs with birds perched on tendrils and banderoles, 1470/80
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 35, 1914
Oil on canvas
110.3 × 120.3 cm
Donated by Jean Arp, 1966
Improvisation 35, 1914
Henri Matisse, Composition (The Velvets), 1947
Gouache on paper, cut out and mounted on white-painted paper
61.8 × 239.5 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Acquired with funding from Richard Doetsch-Benziger, PhD (Hon.), Basel, and Marguerite Hagenbach, Basel, 1954 / © 2019, Pro Litteris, Zürich
Composition (The Velvets), 1947
Pablo Picasso, Man, Woman and Child, autumn 1906
Oil on canvas
115.7 × 88.9 cm
Gift of the artist to the municipality of Basel; permanent loan from the City of Basel, 1967
Man, Woman and Child, autumn 1906
Cy Twombly, Nini’s Painting, 1971
Oil, chalk, and pencil on canvas
260.5 × 299.7 cm
Purchased with funding from the Arnold Rüdlinger Fund of the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel, with additional support from the acquisitions fund of the Kunstmuseum Basel, 1995
Nini’s Painting, 1971
Jan Jansz.van de Velde iii, Still Life with Wineglass and Cut Lemon, 1649
Oil on oak
30.9 × 24.6 cm
Bequest of Max Geldner, Basel, 1958
Still Life with Wineglass and Cut Lemon, 1649
Joseph Beuys, THE HEARTH (Feuerstätte), 1968–1974
Installation with elements made from copper, iron, felt, wood, and white chalk
height of vertical rods : 92 cm
Acquired with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation, the purchase loan, and the Gallery Fund, 1977
THE HEARTH (Feuerstätte), 1968–1974
Adriaen Brouwer, Peasant with Bicorne and Tankard, 1630-1639
Oil on oak wood
14.8 x 12.1 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel, Vermächtnis Max Geldner, Basel
Peasant with Bicorne and Tankard, 1630-1639
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, David with the Head of Goliath before Saul, 1627
Oil on oak wood
27.4 x 39.7 cm
Legacy Max Geldner, Basel
David with the Head of Goliath before Saul, 1627
Caspar Wolf, Glacier Lauteraar, 1776
Oil on canvas
54.8 x 82.6 cm
Purchase, 1932
Glacier Lauteraar, 1776
Ferdinand Hodler, The Dents du Midi seen from Chesières, 1912
Oil on canvas
65.7 x 88.3 cm
Legacy Max Geldner, Basel, 1958
The Dents du Midi seen from Chesières, 1912
Piet Mondrian, Composition: Light Colour Planes with Grey Lines (Composition with Grid 7), 1919
Oil on canvas
49.1 x 49.2 cm
Donation Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, 1968
Composition: Light Colour Planes with Grey Lines (Composition with Grid 7), 1919
Lynda Benglis, Foxtrot, 1974–1975
Aluminium wire, cotton gauze, plaster, sprayed-on tin and zinc.
132.1 x 53.3 x 38.1 cm
Purchase
Foxtrot, 1974–1975
Thomas Ruff, Portrait, 1988
C-print, behind plexiglass, framed; Ed. 3/3 + 1 AP
206 x 160 cm
Purchase
Portrait, 1988
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