
Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape (Bordeaux II)
Amédée Ozenfant · 1918
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold through Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris, to Walter S. Brewster (1872–1954) and Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947), Chicago, Nov. 1928 [invoice, Nov. 1928, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Kate Brewster to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4–18, 1929, cat. 20, as Paysage.
- Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, January 20–22, 1933, cat. 50, as Paysage.
- Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4–25, 1938, cat. 89, as Paysage.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Collection Brewster, September 1950, no cat..
- Saint-Quentin, Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Amédée Ozenfant, October 5–December 2, 1985, cat. 17, as Bordeaux II (ill.); traveled to Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts, December 15, 1985–February 15, 1986, Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, March 1–May 1, 1986, and Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines, May 15–July 15, 1986.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L'Esprit nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918–1925, April 29–August 5, 2001, fig. 55, as Landscape (Bordeaux II); traveled to the Musée de Grenoble, October 6, 2001–January 6, 2002.
Literature
Published references
- Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1929), cat. 20, as Paysage.
- Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1938), cat. 89, as Paysage.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, 3 (September 15, 1950), p. 54.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 348, as Landscape.
- Amédée Ozenfant, Memoires, 1886–1962 (Paris: Éditions Seghers, 1968), p. 99.
- Sandra Grung, “Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection” (unpub., Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 83.
- Susan L. Ball, “Ozenfant and Purism: The Evolution of a Style, 1915–1930,” vol. I (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1978), pp. 116–18, 397–98, cat. 11, as Bordeaux/Landscape.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 60–61, no. 3B12, as Landscape.
- Françoise Ducros, “Ozenfant et l’Esthétique Puriste: Une Géométrie de l’Objet,” Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne 12 (1983), pp. 274, 275, fig. 6, as Bordeaux II.
- Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Amédée Ozenfant, exh. cat. (Saint-Quentin: Musée Antoine Lécuyer, 1985), p. 86, cat. 17, as Bordeaux II (ill.).
- Carol S. Eliel, et. al., L'Esprit nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918–1925, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 77, 78, and 180, fig. 55.
- Françoise Ducros, Ozenfant (Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 2002), pp. 46, 49, no. 39, as Paysage (Bordeaux II) (ill.).
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