BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house), Cristóbal BALENCIAGA (designer)

Cocktail dress no. 112 and wrap
winter 1950

(Mother and child) E. Phillips FOX CAP Shoe covers COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer) LENGTH OF FABRIC October Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE Chair Carlo BUGATTI Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends Jacopo AMIGONI Spouted pharmacy jar ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer) The Crossing of the Red Sea Nicolas POUSSIN FRAGMENT Throne Carlo BUGATTI Pietà CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller) The thinker Auguste RODIN Dress ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer) Sampler Margaret FOSTER Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera) Francesco GUARDI PANEL (TURKEY) Portrait of an old lady Françoise DUPARC Untitled (Red) Mark ROTHKO Ulysses and the Sirens John William WATERHOUSE The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON Hero and Leander Nicolas RÉGNIER Black bunny ears hat COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Stephen JONES (designer) Beach dress FRANCE CAMEL CLOTH CAP Chacmool Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico Clock garniture MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator) The Virgin and Child FLANDERS Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q EGYPT, el-Amarna