Rose collection treasures

Some of the treasures from Brandeis’s Rose Art Museum that could be sold by Brandeis leaders. (Pardon the lousy reproductions, they’re all from the Twit-scape.)






















Andy Warhol, “Saturday Disaster,” 1964. Two stacked black and white screenprinted images of a fatal car crash from Warhol’s haunting “Disaster” series. If Brandeis leaders are looking for quick cash, this is the most likely painting to go. Christie’s auctioned off a similar 1963 Warhol crash painting for a record price of $71.7 million in 2007.






















Roy Lichtenstein, “Forget It! Forget Me!” 1962. A romance comic writ large by a master of Pop.












Ellsworth Kelly, “Blue White,” 1962. Two rounded blue forms kiss atop a white ground. A classic of crisp minimalist abstraction by a Boston Museum School alum.














Jasper Johns, “Drawer,” 1957. Gloomy gray painting with a faux drawer in the middle, part of Johns’s early exploration of the painting as object.






















Hyman Bloom, “Corpse of a Man,” 1944-45. A bloated, rotting corpse as if painted by Bonnard. One of the best of the Bostonian’s early, chunky explorations of local morgues.








Roberto Matta, untitled, 1956. A tour de force 20-foot-wide 1956 abstract painting resembling floating space stations.






















Bruce Connor, “Light Shower,” 1963. An assemblage resembling a cracked-up bedroom wall by a Bay Area master rarely seen on the East Coast.






















Williem de Kooning, untitled, 1961. A big loose brushy action painting made as his compositions were opening up in the ‘60s.














Elizabeth Murray, “Duck Foot,” 1983. A bright red and yellow painting built around her signature abstracted cartoony forms on shaped canvases.






















Florine Stettheimer, “Music,” c. 1920. An icy girly drawing-room dream painting by the Jazz Age salon queen.