Works on paper

With more than 90,000 artworks, our collection of works on paper is one of the largest in the world.

Highlights

Children of High Class from the Chinatown Series, ca. 1896

Arnold Genthe
Gottardo Piazzoni in His Studio, 1932

Ansel Adams
the puritan (New York: Osiris, 1990), 1990

Louise Bourgeois

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Stage set design for act 1 of the opera-ballet Le coq d'or (The Golden Cockerel), 1914

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
Costume for a Peasant Girl in the ballet Foire de Sorotchinsk, 1940

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova
Costume design for Potiphar's wife in the ballet 'La légende de Joseph' (The Legend of Joseph), 1914

Léon Bakst (Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg)
La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France), 1913

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, ca. 1830-1832

Hokusai
Evening Rain at Atake on the Great Bridge (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), no. 52 from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei), Ninth month of 1857 (series published 1856-1858)

Utagawa Hiroshige

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