Art Institute of Chicago
Abstract Composition
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) · 1927
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; acquired by Carl O. Schniewind (1900-1957), Chicago; by descent to his wife, Hedwig B. Schniewind (died 1963); bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 25, 1963.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago (Junior Museum), The French Influence, Aug. 10, 1985–1987.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute, Annual Report 1963-64 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1964), p. 19, as Abstract Composition.
- Grung, Sandra, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1971), p. 20, as Abstract Composition.
- Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 17, 50 (no. 2D8), as Abstract Composition, 1927.
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