Theo Van Doesburg

(Paesi bassi, 1883 - Davos, 1931)

THEO VAN DOESBURG

(Peasi Bassi 1883 - Davos 1931)

Projet d'Affiche (non realisée) for a retrospective at Little Review Gallery, New York

1924 -1925 ca. [nd]

gouache, pencil and ink on canvassed paper

150x111.5 cm

on a 90° angle inscribed  "originalgrosze des Plakats Doesburg"

on the front inscribed "weisz//Gelb//weisz//letteryp//Rot//Blau//Weisz"

This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity issued by Galerie Jean Chauvelin, Paris in 1974.

In the VDS is a photograph taken in the 1920s of ths work (inv.no.1938).

Exhibited

Palazzo Reale, Milano, Origini dell’astrattismo, verso altri orizzonti del reale, 18 October 1979 - 18 January 1980

Literature

Origini dell’astrattismo, verso altri orizzonti del reale, catalogo della mostra, 1980, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Silvana editoriale, n. 458 (ill.)

Boccioni. Visioni Simultanee (catalogo della mostra), Mazzotta, Milano, 1982, p. 75 (ill.)

E. Hoek, M. Blokhuis, S. van Faassen, I. Goovaerts, N. Kamphujs, R. Koot, M. Kramer, Theo Van Doesburg, oeuvre catalogue, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Kroller - Muller Museum Otterlo, p. 410, n. 766b