Aesthetic Function in Space

1. The artist; bequeathed to his widow, Mrs. Else Merrild, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1954; by descent in the family until 1989; to a private collection, Stockholm, 1989; to Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1991; to a private collection, Los Angeles; [Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago]; sold to Dale Taylor and Angela Lustig, Chicago, 2008; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• San Francisco, Paul Elder Gallery, Feb. 1935, no cat.
• Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art, Knud Merrild: Exhibition of Recent Works, July 10–31, 1935, cat. 4.
• Los Angeles, Transigram Sound Studios, First Annual Exhibit of Painting and Sculpture, Aug. 1–17, 1935, cat. 8.
• San Francisco Museum of Art, Knud Merrild Oil Paintings, Mar. 8–30, 1937, checklist XX.
• Copenhagen, Dams & Fonss, Knud Merrild, 1938, cat. 1.
• New York, Boyer Galleries, Knud Merrild, Feb. 1–21, 1939, cat. 19.
• Beverly Hills, Ca., Modern Institute of Art, Knud Merrild: Twenty Five Year Retrospective, June 2–July 4, 1948, cat. 3.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knud Merrild, 1894–1954, Nov. 26–Dec. 26, 1965, cat. 12, ill.
• Los Angeles, Steve Turner Gallery, Twentieth Century American Art, 1995, cat. 28, ill.
• New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Eccentric Orbits: Stanley William Hayter, Charles Howard, Knud Merrild, Kay Sage, Apr. 9–May 29, 1998, ill.
• Los Angeles, Steve Turner Gallery, Knud Merrild: State of Flux, May 4–June 17, 2001, ill.
• Pasadena Museum of California Art, Post Surrealism, June 1–Sept. 1, 2002; Logan, Utah, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Oct. 11, 2002–Jan. 24, 2003 (unnumbered cat.).

The Embryo

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Self-Portrait

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Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins

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Remembrance of Italy

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Priest and Boy

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

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Fishing Craft near the Cliffs at Collioure

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Interior of St. Mark's, Venice

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