Queer Art from the 20th Century
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Untitled (One Day This Kid...) This photo-text collage shows the artist as an elementary school child, with the surrounding text describing possible violence and discrimination he may encounter as a gay man. -
Triptych August 1972 An abstract portrait of George Dyer (left panel), Francis Bacon (right panel) and their coupling (central panel), set against black voids -
We Two Boys Together Clinging An abstract oil painting on board of two men kissing in front of a lavatory wall covered in graffiti -
Self-Portrait Self-portrait photograph -
Still image from the film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern) This 1919 silent film is thought to be one of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuality on screen. Telling the story of a gay musician and his boyfriend who are blackmailed by a acquaintance, it was made to protest German laws that criminalized homosexual relations between men. -
Costume Study for Vaslav Nijinsky in the Role of Iksender in the Ballet "La Péri" (The Flower of Immortality) -
Gertrude Stein Pablo Picasso painted this portrait of his friend and patron, Gertrude Stein. Completed during his Rose Period, the strong lines of her face and the mass of her body in the painting reflect the forcefulness of Stein's personality.