Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid

1. Purchased from the artist by Lillian H. Florsheim, Chicago, through Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris, August 8, 1958; by descent to her grandson, Geoffrey Goldberg, Chicago, c. 1988; sold to the At Institute of Chicago, August 18, 2004.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Exposition d’art abstrait, 1929.
• Zurich, Switzerland, Internationale Ausstellung. Plastik, July 25–September 30, 1931, no. 184.
• Paris, Galerie Maeght, Les premiers maîtres de l’art abstrait, 1949.
• Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georges Vantongerloo, 22 April–17 June 1980; traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 16 July–14 September 1980, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 9 October–28 December 1980, cat. no. 31 (illus.).

• G. Vantongerloo, “Principe d’unité,” I 10 internationale review, vol. 1, nr. 3 (1927): p. 96 (illus.).
• ___, “Principe d’unité,” Cercle et Carré, no. 1 (March 15, 1930): n.p. (illus.)
• Katarzyna Kobro and Wladyslaw Strzeminski, “Kompozycja prze strzeni oblicze nia rytmu czaso przestrzennego,” Bibljoteki A.R., no. 2 (1931): fig. 26.
• Georges Vantongerloo, Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections (New York: Wittenborn Schulz, 1948), fig. 9.
• Michel Seuphor, Die Plastik unseres Jahrhunderts (Neuchâtel: Du Griffon, 1959), p. 58.
• ___. L'art abstrait, vol. 2 (Paris: Maeght), no. 107 (illus.).
• Juan Daniel Fullaondo, “Georges Vantongerloo desde El Stijl a la Aurora Boreal,” Nueva Forma (no. 75: 1972).
• Ceuleers, Jan. Georges Vantongerloo, 1886-1965. Antwerpen: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1996, p. 85 (illus. p. 89).
• Bruce Boucher, "Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 32, no. 1 (2006), p. 62, ill. p. 63.

Curving Function Greenish Brown

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Facade Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Plan Overview Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Right Side (Proper) Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Rear Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Left Side (Proper) Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid" 

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Étude No. 1

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The Function of Lines

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