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Artist: Béla Kádár, Hungarian, 1877-1955

Silence

ca. 1920–24

Gouache on heavy wove paper

76.2 x 59.3 cm (30 x 23 3/8 in.)
Gift of the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier
1953.6.166
Culture: 
Hungarian
Period: 
20th century
Classification: 
Paintings
Status: 
By appointment
Provenance: 

Der Sturm, Berlin, 1927; Estate of Katherine S. Dreier, to 1953; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

“Exhibition of Modern Art at Gallery Now,” Buffalo Courier-Express (February 26, 1927).

Ruth L. Bohan, The Société Anonyme’s Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1982), 144.

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), 342, no. 346, ill.

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.