The earliest work in this show, for example, is a brilliantly colored depiction of a house in Dresden, from 1909.
The other top seller was a modern painting, Kandinsky's 1909 "Study for Improvisation 8," a brightly colored depiction of kneeling pilgrims and a man wielding a sword before the cityscape of old Kiev, the medieval district of the Ukrainian capital.
The painter LeRoy Neiman, whose impressionistic, brightly colored depictions of sporting events and the high life appeared in Playboy magazine, among other places, died on Wednesday at age 91, William Grimes reports.
A gaily colored tilework depiction of a court picnic from 17th-century Iran does double duty as a picaresque glimpse of Eden.
The motionographer, as he was called, Nobuyuki Hanabusa, created a brilliant montage to accompany this performance by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, using images from the Rimpa school of Japanese painting, which features boldly colored, poetic and stylized depictions of people and nature.
There was something so cool about those candy-colored, fish-eyed depictions of American horror.
A foot and a half high, they are heavy, bronze-colored and carry a stunning depiction of an athlete emerging from flames.
One can imagine Ms. Wilke being inspired first by the brooding reliefs of Lee Bontecou and then the early paintings of Eva Hesse or perhaps the more obstreperous sexuality of Lee Lozano's cartoonish depictions of brightly colored tools.
Amos Ferguson, a folk artist known for his brilliantly colored Bible scenes and his depictions of the social rituals and the flora and fauna of the Bahamas, died on Oct. 19 at his niece's home in Nassau.
The invite features the phrase "This should brighten everyone's day," along with a graphic depiction of multi-colored dots, which suggest leaks of iPhone hardware with different color casings are on the money at least.
His daughter's depictions of this self-ruled colored Eden have become legend, and in recent years have seemed to hold out a ruefully tempting alternative to the ordeals of integration.
