(Space Construction) Room

1920–21

Tempera on composition board

99.1 × 76.2 cm (39 × 30 in.)

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

1941.627

Status:

Not on view

Culture:

Hungarian

Period:

20th century

Classification:

Paintings

Bibliography:

Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 111, 157, 180, fig. 17, 1.

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), 515, no. 543, ill.

Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 19-20, ill.

Wulf Herzogenrath, Laszlo Peri: Werke 1920–1924 und das Problem des “Shaped Canvas”, exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Kolnischer Kunstverein, 1973), 27, ill.

Carlotta Castellani, “The Hungarian MA Circle in the Société Anonyme Collection: Sándor Bortnyik, László Moholy-Nagy, and László Péri,” Yale Review (2020–2021): 94–103, fig. 3.

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