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Nils Dardel, Den döende dandyn (The Dying Dandy), 1918, oil on canvas, 140 × 180 cm (unframed), 163.8 x 204 x 5 cm (framed), Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Reframing Modernism

Review by Philippe Riss-Schmidt
March 9, 2026

 A Queer Counter-Narrative

March 9, 2026

Philippe Riss-Schmidt
Portrait Of Rosa Bonheur With a Bull (1857) Édouard-Louis Dubufe (French, 1819/1820-1883)
Ludwig von Hofmann, Die Quelle, 1913, oil on canvas, 75 × 92 cm, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Thomas-Mann-Archiv / Photo: Stephan Bösch
Lotte Laserstein, Ich und mein Modell, oil on canvas, 49.5 × 69.5 cm, Private Collection, Courtesy Agnews, London © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Marie Laurencin, Unga kvinnor (Young Women), 1910, oil on canvas, 115 x 146 cm (unframed), 124 x 156 x 5.5 cm (framed), Donation in 1966 under the will of Rolf de Maré, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Romaine Brooks, Portrait Marchesa Casati, oil on canvas, 248 × 120 cm, Collection Lucile Audouy, © photo Thomas Hennocque
Gluck, Bank Holiday Monday, c. 1937, Painting, oil on canvas, 23.7 × 18.7 cm‚ Private collection, courtesy of The Fine Art Society Ltd © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Anton Prinner, Double personnage, 1937, Original-Holzskulptur, 63 x 30 x 18 cm, Sammlung Kálmán Makláry, Budapest
Anton Prinner, Double personnage, 1937, Original-Holzskulptur, 63 x 30 x 18 cm, Sammlung Kálmán Makláry, Budapest
Nils Dardel, Visit how excentrisk dam (Visit to an Eccentric Lady), 1921, oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97.5 cm (unframed), Donation in 1953 from Friends of the Moderna Museet, The Moderna Museet, Stockholm

“"Queer Modernism 1900 to 1950" succeeds because it refuses to simply add new names to an old list. It challenges the very criteria by which greatness has been judged and history has been written.”