Simultaneous Composition Artist: Theo van Doesburg (Dutch, 1883–1931)

1929

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

50.2 × 50.4 cm (19 3/4 × 19 13/16 in.)
framed: 80.3 × 69.9 × 6 cm (31 5/8 × 27 1/2 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Katherine S. Dreier to the Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1948.209

Culture

Dutch

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Nelly van Doesburg sold February 1948 to Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp
Bibliography
  • Gladys Fabre and Doris Wintgens Hotte, eds., Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World, exh. cat. (London: Tate Modern, 2009), 63, fig. 48.
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 171, ill.
  • 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), 195, no. 197, ill.
  • Joost Baljeu, Theo van Doesburg (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974), 179, 200, ill.
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 66-67, ill.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Subject

Squares

Signed

Signed verso, top "theo van doesburg / 1929 Paris"

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