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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION
ALBERT GLEIZES (1881-1953)
Composition, évocation figurée ou Sur l'avenue
Details
ALBERT GLEIZES (1881-1953)
Composition, évocation figurée ou Sur l'avenue
signed and dated 'ALBERT GLEIZES 1920' (lower right)
oil on canvas
64 x 51 in. (162.4 x 129.7 cm.)
Painted in 1920
Composition, évocation figurée ou Sur l'avenue
signed and dated 'ALBERT GLEIZES 1920' (lower right)
oil on canvas
64 x 51 in. (162.4 x 129.7 cm.)
Painted in 1920
Provenance
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, February 1959).
Private collection (acquired from the above, March 1959).
Rudolph Indlekofer, Basel (by 1964).
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 12 December 2000, lot 69.
R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, February 2001.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, February 1959).
Private collection (acquired from the above, March 1959).
Rudolph Indlekofer, Basel (by 1964).
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 12 December 2000, lot 69.
R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, February 2001.
Literature
J. Povolozky, A. Gleizes, Tradition et cubisme, vers une conscience plastique, Paris, 1927, p. 97 (illustrated in situ in the 1929 exhibition at Galerie der Sturm, Berlin).
J. Roche, Albert Gleizes et le Cubisme, Basel, 1962, p. 119, no. 1 (illustrated in color, p. 7).
M. Massenet, Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1998, pp. 52 and 118 (illustrated in color, p. 52).
A. Varichon, Albert Gleizes: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, p. 289, no. 843 (illustrated in color).
J. Roche, Albert Gleizes et le Cubisme, Basel, 1962, p. 119, no. 1 (illustrated in color, p. 7).
M. Massenet, Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1998, pp. 52 and 118 (illustrated in color, p. 52).
A. Varichon, Albert Gleizes: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, p. 289, no. 843 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie der Sturm (Herwarth Walden), Albert Gleizes, Jacques Villon, Louis Marcoussis, January 1921, no. 93.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne and Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Albert Gleizes: A Retrospective Exhibition by Daniel Robbins, September 1964-April 1965, p. 77, no. 121 (illustrated in color, p. 89).
Chicago, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Aspects of Art in France: Delacroix to Picasso, Spring 2001, p. 49, no. 22 (illustrated in color, pp. 49-50; illustrated again in color on the cover).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée national d'art moderne and Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Albert Gleizes: A Retrospective Exhibition by Daniel Robbins, September 1964-April 1965, p. 77, no. 121 (illustrated in color, p. 89).
Chicago, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Aspects of Art in France: Delacroix to Picasso, Spring 2001, p. 49, no. 22 (illustrated in color, pp. 49-50; illustrated again in color on the cover).
Further Details
Anne Varichon has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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