The Valentine Gallery

In 1928, only two years after it opened, the Valentine Gallery was dubbed a "temple of modernism" by art critic Henry McBride. The gallery earned this reputation because of Dudensing's commitment to showing the finest examples of modern art. A number of paintings and sculptures that he sold to his clientele are in the collections of U.S. museums today. 

Click on the title of the work to see an image and additional details as they appear on the museum's website.

EUROPEAN ARTISTS

Pierre Bonnard: 

• Interior with Boy, 1910, oil on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

• The Breakfast Room, c. 1925, oil on canvas (Brooklyn Museum, NY)

• The Road to Nantes, 1929, oil on fabric (Cleveland Museum of Art, OH)

• Still Life: Preparation for Lunch, 1940, gouache, watercolor, graphite on paper (Art Institute of Chicago)

Georges Braque:

• Still Life on a Mantelpiece, c. 1923, oil and sand on canvas (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY)

• Seated Bather, 1925, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)

• Lemons and Napkin Ring, 1928, oil and graphite on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

Paul Cezanne:

• Three Pears, 1878-79, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

• L'Estaque, 1879-83, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Mount Sainte-Victoire, c. 1904, oil on fabric (Cleveland Museum of Art, OH)

Giorgio de Chirico:

• The Eventuality of Destiny, 1927, oil on canvas (Art Institute of Chicago, IL)

• Conversation among the Ruins, 1927, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)

André Derain:

• The Bagpiper, 1910-11, oil on canvas (Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN)

• Guitar Player, 1928, oil on canvas (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO)

Raoul Dufy

• Open Window, Nice, 1928, oil on canvas (deaccessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, IL)

• Dusk at La Baie des Anges, Nice, c. 1927, oil on canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)

• Reclining Nude, 1929, oil on canvas (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)

Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita:

• Deésse de la neige, 1924, oil on masonite (Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA)

Vincent van Gogh:

• The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières, 1887, oil on canvas (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA)

• Portrait of Camille Roulin, 1888 or 1889, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)

Juan Gris:

• Jar, Bottle and Glass, 1911, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• The Painter's Window, 1925, oil on canvas (Baltimore Museum of Art, MD)

Marcel Gromaire:

• The Pilot, 1928, oil on canvas (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY)

Vasily Kandinsky:

• Compression, 1929, oil on canvas (University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA)

Fernand Léger:

• Yellow Composition, 1928, oil on canvas (Baltimore Museum of Art, MD)

• The Three Musicians, 1944, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Big Julie, 1945, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

Henri Matisse:

• Still Life with Geranium, 1906, oil on canvas (Art Institute of Chicago, IL)

• Coffee, 1916, oil on canvas (Detroit Institute of Arts, MI)

• The Piano Lesson, 1916, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Three Sisters with Grey Background, 1917, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA)

• White Plumes, 1919, oil on canvas (Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN)

• Domino Players, 1920-21, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA)

• Chinese Casket, 1922, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA)

• Still Life on a Table, 1925, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)

• Reclining Odalisque, 1926, oil on canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)

Joan Miró:

• Portrait of Mistress Mills in 1750, 1929, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

Amedeo Modigliani:

• Madam Pompadour, 1915, oil on canvas (Art Institute of Chicago, IL)

• Anna Zborowska, 1917, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Boy in Short Pants, c. 1918, oil on canvas (Dallas Museum of Art, TX)

• Elvira Resting at a Table, 1919, oil on canvas (Saint Louis Art Museum, MO)

László Moholy-Nagy:

• Z VI, 1925, oil, ink and graphite on canvas (Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA)

Piet Mondrian:

• Composition No. III, c. 1921; repainted in 1925, oil on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

• Composition with White and Red, 1936, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)

• Opposition of Lines, Red and Yellow, 1937, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)

• Abstraction, 1939-42, oil on canvas (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX)

• Composition No. 11, 1940-42 -- London, with Blue, Red and Yellow, 1940-1942, oil on canvas (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY)

• Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

Jules Pascin:

• Three Girls, c. 1925, oil on canvas (Brooklyn Museum, NY)

Pablo Picasso:

• Melancholy Woman, 1902, oil on canvas (Detroit Institute of Arts, MI)

• Family of Saltimbanques, 1905, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

• Head of a Woman, 1909, oil on canvas (Art Institute of Chicago, IL)

• Accordionist, 1911, oil on canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY)

• Table, Guitar and Bottle, 1919, oil on canvas (Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA)

• Still Life with a Guitar and a Compote, 1923, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)

• The Studio, 1927-28, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Girl before a Mirror, 1932, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

Georges Rouault

• Solange, 1928, oil on paper (Saint Louis Art Museum, MO)

• Afterglow, Galilee, before 1931, oil on paper mounted on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

Henri Rousseau:

• Tiger Hunt, c. 1895, oil on canvas (Columbus Museum of Art, OH)

• Outskirts of Paris, c. 1897-1905, oil on fabric (Cleveland Museum of Art, OH)

• Flowers in a Vase, 1901-2, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Notre Dame, 1909, oil on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

Chaim Soutine:

• Young Girl in Red Blouse, c. 1919, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA)

• Dead Fowl, 1926, oil on canvas (Art Institute of Chicago, IL)

Maurice Utrillo:

• Suburban Street Scene, n.d., oil on canvas (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA)

AMERICAN ARTISTS

Milton Avery:

• The Nursemaid, 1934, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA)

• Pine Cones, 1940, oil on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

• Self-Portrait, 1941, oil on canvas, (Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY)

Robert Chanler:

• Carl Van Doren, c. 1920, oil on linen (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)

Stuart Davis:

• Egg Beater No. 2, 1928, oil on canvas (Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX)

Louis Eilshemius:

• Adirondacks: Bridge for Fishing, 1897, oil on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

• Niagara Falls, 1907-8, oil on canvas (Detroit Institute of Arts, MI)

• The Forsaken Mill, 1908, oil on composition board (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)

• The Flying Dutchman, 1908, oil on composition board (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)

• Vaudeville, 1909, oil on masonite (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

John Kane:

• Through Coleman Hollow up the Allegheny Valley, c. 1928, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Along the Susquehanna, 1928, oil on canvas (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA)

• Old St. Patrick's, Pittsburgh, 1930, oil on canvas (Detroit Institute of Arts, MI)

• Turtle Creek Valley, No. 2, 1932, oil on canvas (Wichita Art Museum, KS)

Robert Laurent:

• The Awakening, 1931, bronze (Whitney Museum of American Art, NY)

Raphael Soyer:

• Self-Portrait, c. 1927, oil on panel (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

• Zelda, c. 1930, oil on canvas (Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME)

• Mina, 1932, oil on canvas (Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA)

• Girl in White Blouse, 1932, oil on canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)

Joseph Stella:

• Dance of Spring (Song of the Birds), 1924, oil on canvas (Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO)

• Portrait of Helen Walser, c. 1925, crayon, colored pencil on paper (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT)

• Lyre Bird, c. 1925, oil on canvas (Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA)

• The Little Lake, c. 1927, oil on canvas (Montclair Art Museum, NJ)

Rufino Tamayo:

• Women of Tehuantepec, 1939, oil on canvas (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY)

• Animals, 1941, oil on canvas (Museum of Modern Art, NY)

• Carnival, 1941, oil on canvas (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)

• The Lovers, 1943, oil on canvas (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA)

• The Mad Dog, 1943, oil on canvas (Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA)