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Robert Delaunay, 1912-13, Le Premier Disque, 134 cm (52.7 in.), Private collection.
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket(1874), Detroit Institute of Arts. A near abstraction, in 1877 Whistler sued the art critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned this painting. Ruskin accused Whistler of "ask[ing] two hundred guineas for throwing a pot of paint in the public's face."
Henri Matisse, The Yellow Curtain, 1915. With his Fauvist color and drawing Matisse comes very close to pure abstraction.
František Kupka, Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors), 1912, oil on canvas, 210 x 200 cm, Narodni Galerie, Prague. Published in Au Salon d'Automne "Les Indépendants"1912, Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris.
Robert Delaunay, 1912, Windows Open Simultaneously (First Part, Third Motif), oil on canvas, 45.7 x 37.5 cm,Tate Modern
Wassily Kandinsky, On White 2, 1923
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915, The Russian Museum
Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The above is a 1939–42 oil on canvas painting by Mondrian titled "Composition No. 10". Responding to it, fellow De Stijlartist Theo van Doesburg suggested a link between non-representational works of art and ideals of peace and spirituality.
Albert Gleizes, 1910–12, Les Arbres (The Trees), oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme", 1912
Arthur Dove, 1911–12, Based on Leaf Forms and Spaces, pastel on unidentified support. Now lost
Francis Picabia, 1912, Tarentelle, oil on canvas, 73.6 x 92.1 cm,Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme"
Wassily Kandinsky, 1912,Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), oil on canvas, 47 3/8 x 55 1/4 in. (120.3 x 140.3 cm), TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show
Pablo Picasso, 1913–14, Head (Tête), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Henri Matisse, 1914, French Window at Collioure, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Joseph Csaky, Deux figures, 1920, relief, limestone, polychrome, 80 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Albert Gleizes, 1921, Composition bleu et jaune (Composition jaune), oil on canvas, 200.5 x 110 cm
Paul Klee, Fire in the Evening, 1929
Barnett Newman, Onement 1, 1948, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Fernand Léger 1919, The Railway Crossing, oil on canvas, 53.8 x 64.8 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago
Theo van Doesburg, Neo-Plasticism: 1917, Composition VII (the three graces)