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Georges Vantongerloo (1886-1965)

Lot 152
18.10.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1307042
Lot 152 | Georges Vantongerloo (1886-1965)
Estimate value
€ 200 000 – 300 000
Georges Vantongerloo (1886-1965)
Fonction de lignes
signé, daté et inscrit 'fonction de lignes G. Vantongerloo 1937' (au revers)
huile sur panneau
36.8 x 78 cm.
Peint en 1937

signed, dated and inscribed 'fonction de lignes G. Vantongerloo 1937' (on the reverse)
oil on pannel
14 ½ x 30 ¾ in.
Painted in 1937




Provenance

Lillian H. Florsheim, Chicago.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel vers 1977.



Literature

Problem of contemporary art, Vantongerloo, Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections, New York, 1948, vol. V, p. XV (illustré, pl. 23).
Georges Vantongerloo, Un Pionnier de la sculpture moderne, "De la sphère à l'aurore boréale", cat. exp., Musée départemental Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 2007-2008 (illustré in situ dans l'exposition de 1946, p. 129).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie de Berri, Exposition Georges Vantongerloo, 1909-1939, 30 années de recherches, février 1943, no. 113.
Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 1er salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Art abstrait, concret, constructivisme, non figuratif, juillet-août 1946.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Antoine Pevsner, Georges Vantongerloo, Max Bill, octobre-novembre 1949, no. 42.
Rome, Fondazione Origine, Omaggio a Georges Vantongerloo, mai 1953, no. 6.
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, De Boeck, Joostens, Servranckx, Vantongerloo, Pioniere der abstrakten Kunst, Belgien 1915-60, novembre 1976-février 1977, p. 92, no. 64 (illustré à l'envers).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Georges Vantongerloo, avril-mai 1981, p. 79, no. 113.
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