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Modern and Contemporary Art
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Artist: Carl Buchheister, German, 1890–1964
White with Black Wedge
1931
Oil, enamel, sand and wood on panel
63.5 × 76.5 × 3.5 cm (25 × 30 1/8 × 1 3/8 in.)
Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
1941.375
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
German
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
KSD from the artist, Hanover, 1937
Bibliography:
Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 35, ill.
Michel Seuphor, Dictionary of Abstract Painting (New York: Paris Book Center, 1957).
Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 109, no. 87, ill.
Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 85, fig. 13.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
