LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
20 x 20.125 in. (50.8 x 51.1 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
(Probably) New York, The Little Review Gallery, Work by Lger, (), Theo van Doesburg, Ossip Zadkine, etc., March - April 1925 (no cat). (Probably) New York, The Little Review Gallery, April - May 1926 (no cat). Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Theo van Doesburg, December 1968 - January 1969, no. A32; this exhibition later travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, February - March 1969. Nuremberg, Kunsthalle, Theo van Doesburg, April - June 1969, no. A28; this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunsthalle, August - September 1969. Paris, Grand Palais, Hommage Christian et Yvonne Zervos, December 1970 - January 1971, n.p..
Literature:
T. van Doesburg, List 1, 1916-1926, as Contre-Kompositie III1924 (klein rood kwadraat) 50-50 IV Mad. Arp. S. Polano, ed., Theo van Doesburg, Scritti di arte e di architettura, Rome, 1979, no. PITT 165, p. 533 (illustrated fig. 202; with inverted dimensions). H.L.C. Jaff, Theo van Doesburg, Amsterdam, 1983, no. 80, p. 103 (illustrated; with inverted dimensions). E. van Straaten, Theo van Doesburg, in C. Blotkamp, ed., De vervolgjaren van De Stijl 1922-1932, Amsterdam, 1996, p. 41. E. Hoek, ed., Theo van Doesburg, oeuvre catalogue, Utrecht, 2000, no. 736, p. 391 (illustrated).
Provenance:
Franois & Mary Arp, Paris, a gift from the artist, circa 1927. Ruth Tillard-Arp, Paris, by descent from the above; sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1985, lot 43. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.