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MONSOON: THE PETER SIMON COLLECTION
LIUBOV POPOVA (1889-1924)
Painterly Architectonic
Details
LIUBOV POPOVA (1889-1924)
Painterly Architectonic
signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian with title, further inscribed, and dated 'L. Popova/...1918/Moscow Novinskii boulevard 117 4' (on the reverse)
pencil and oil on board
23 ¼ x 15 3⁄8 in. (59 x 39.2 cm.)
Painted in 1918
Painterly Architectonic
signed in Cyrillic, inscribed in Russian with title, further inscribed, and dated 'L. Popova/...1918/Moscow Novinskii boulevard 117 4' (on the reverse)
pencil and oil on board
23 ¼ x 15 3⁄8 in. (59 x 39.2 cm.)
Painted in 1918
Provenance
Private collection, courtesy Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.
Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Private collection.
Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 2004.
Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Private collection.
Ivor Braka Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by The Peter Simon Collection in 2004.
Literature
Unpublished inventory of works by Liubov Popova, compiled by Aleksandr Vesnin, Ivan Aksenov and Pavel Popov, 1924.
Exhibition catalogue, Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, London, 2009, no. 2, 168, illustrated p. 14.
Exhibition catalogue, Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, London, 2009, no. 2, 168, illustrated p. 14.
Exhibited
Moscow, Museum of Painterly Culture, Posmertnaia vystavka khudozhnika konstruktora L. S. Popovoi [Posthumous Exhibition of Liubov Popova, Artist-Constructor], December 1924-January 1925, travelling to Kyiv (1925) and Krasnodar (1926), listed p. 11, as one of nos. 49-52, 56, 58-64, 66 and 67.
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Liubov Popova & Kazimir Malevich, April-May 1986, no. 10, illustrated p. 3, listed p. 4.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Liubov Popova, February-April 1991, travelling to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, no. 72, p. 130, illustrated p. 78.
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Liubov Popova & Kazimir Malevich, April-May 1986, no. 10, illustrated p. 3, listed p. 4.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Liubov Popova, February-April 1991, travelling to Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, no. 72, p. 130, illustrated p. 78.
Further Details
We are grateful to Maria Tsantsanoglou, Artistic Director of MOMus - Museum of Modern Art - Costakis Collection, for her assistance in researching the present lot.
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