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Theo van Doesburg: Still Life (Composition V)  wikidata:Q3935499 reasonator:Q3935499
Artist
Theo van Doesburg  (1883–1931)  wikidata:Q160422 s:en:Author:Theo van Doesburg q:en:Theo van Doesburg
 
Theo van Doesburg
Alternative names
Emile Küpper, Christian Emil Marie Küpper, I.K. Bonset, Aldo Camini
Description Dutch architect, painter, drawer and writer
Date of birth/death 30 August 1883 Edit this at Wikidata 7 March 1931 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Utrecht Edit this at Wikidata Davos Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1899-1931
Work location
Amsterdam (1899-1914), Amersfoort (September 1908), Apeldoorn (July 1910), Fort bij Veldhuis (Heemskerk) (July 1914), Groesbeek (May 1915-June 1915, September 1916), Utrecht (September 1915-1916), Zoeterwoude (1916), Leiden (1916-1921), Paris (28 March 1921), Weimar (1921-1924), Rügen (July 1922-August 1922), Paris (1923), Clamart (1924-1930), Belle-Île-en-Mer (June 1924), Strasbourg (September 1926-February 1928), San Sebastián (1927), Antrain (Summer 1929
date QS:P,+1929-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720564
), The Hague (1929), Auvers-sur-Oise (September 1930), Meudon (December 1930-February 1931), Davos (March 1931)
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artist QS:P170,Q160422
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Still Life (Composition V)
label QS:Les,"Naturaleza muerta (Composición V)"
label QS:Lfi,"Asetelma (Kompositio V)"
label QS:Len,"Still Life (Composition V)"
label QS:Lnl,"Stilleven (Compositie V)"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre still life Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Unsigned copy on canvas of a lost painting entitled Compositie V 1917 (open stilleven met vlakke vorm) on asbestos.
Date Between 1917 and 1923
date QS:P571,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1923-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 31 cm (12.2 in); width: 36 cm (14.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,31U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,36U174728
Paris, Georges Jollès collection
Place of creation Leiden (?)
Object history

1931: inherited by Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975), Meudon, from Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), Meudon

1947: purchased by Rose Fried (The Pinacotheca Gallerie), New York City, from Nelly van Doesburg, Meudon

1949: purchased by Lydia and Harry Winston, New York City, from Rose Fried

16 May 1990: purchased by Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, at the sale of the collection of Lydia and Harry Winston at Sotheby's, New York City, lot no. 36

1990: purchased by Georges Jollès, Paris, from Barbara Mathes Gallery
Exhibition history

Retrospektiv Theo van Doesburg, Landesmuseum, Weimar, 16 December 1923–23 January 1924, as Konstruiertes Stilleben.

Retrospektiv Theo van Doesburg (?), March 1924–15 April 1924, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover

, no catalog.

Theo van Doesburg, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2 May 1936–31 May 1936, cat. no.  33?, p. 102, as Stilleven, 1916.

Theo van Doesburg, Retrospective exhibition, Art of this Century Gallery, New York City, 29 April 1947–31 May 1947, cat. no.  16?, as Nature morte, 1916.

Group show, The Pinacotheca, New York City, 1949, cat. no.  2.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston Collection, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, 8 November 1951–25 November 1951, Cat.no. 55, s.p., as Still Life, 1916.

20th Century painting and sculpture from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Harbor, 30 October 1955–27 November 1955, cat. no.  14, as Still Life, 1916.

Collecting modern art. Paintings, sculpture and drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 27 September 1957–3 November 1957, The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, 13 December 1957–5 January 1958, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 23 January 1958–13 March 1958, The Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, 11 April 1958–12 May 1958, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 15 June 1958–3 August 1958, cat. no.  31, p. 45, image, p. 17, as Still Life, 1916.

Plus by minus. Today's half-century, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 3 March 1968–14 April 1968, Cat.no. 30, with image, as Still Life, 1916.

25th anniversary exhibition. From Picasso to Dubuffet, from Brancusi to Giacometti, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, 2 October 1973–3 November 1973, cat. no.  37, p. 84-85, image, p. 237, as Still Life, 1916.

De Stijl, 1917-1931, Visions of Utopia, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 31 January 1982 - 28 March 1982, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 20 April 1982–27 June 1982, cat. no.  5, as Still Life, 1916.

De Stijl, 1917-1931, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 6 August 1982–4 October 1982, Cat.no. 7, as Stilleven, 1916 or 1917
date QS:P,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1916-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
?.

La beauté exacte. Art Pays-Bas XXe siècle. De Van Gogh à Mondrian, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 25 March 1994–17 July 1994, cat. no.  1, p. 289, with color image on p. 238, as Nature morte, 1916.

Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde, Tate Modern, London, 4 February 2010–16 May 2010, ISBN 978-1-85437-872-9, without cat. no.  , p. 247, no image, as ‘Still Life (Composition V) 1916-17’.
References

H.L.C. Jaffé (1983) Theo van Doesburg, [Amsterdam]: Meulenhoff/Landshoff, ISBN 90-290-8272-0, p. 18, as Stilleven, 1915, with image in black and white.

Els Hoek (ed.; 2000) Theo van Doesburg. Oeuvrecatalogus, Bussum: Uitgeverij Thot, ISBN 90-6868-255-5, p. 180, cat. no.  517, with color image, as Stilleven (compositie V), 1916, after July-1917, spring?.
Source/Photographer Els Hoek (ed.; 2000; ISBN 90-6868-255-5). Theo van Doesburg. Oeuvrecatalogus. Bussum: Uitgeverij Thot, cat. no.  517, p. 180.

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