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Rainbow (prismatic) [Regenbogen (prismatisch)]
Arthur Segal · 1924
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, Berlin and later London; by descent to his daughter, Marianne Segal (1908–1988), London, 1944 [Ubu Gallery factsheet, copy in curatorial object file]. Julius Levy (1913–2006), New York, by 1987 [Cologne 1987]; by descent to his son, Fred Levy [email correspondence with Adam Boxer, Aug. 8, 2025, copy in curatorial object file]; sold, Litchfield County Auctions, May 2, 2007, lot 807245, to Ubu Gallery, New York [email correspondence with Litchfield County Auctions, Sep. 19, 2025, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Richard Roth, New York, Nov. 6, 2015 [purchase agreement, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 10, 2017.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Graphisches Kabinett I. B. Neumann, Gemälde von Arthur Segal, Apr.–May 1925, no cat.
- London, The Royal Society of British Artists Galleries, Memorial Exhibition (1894–1944) by Arthur Segal, Sept. 18–Oct. 1, 1945, as “Houses and Rainbow.”
- Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Arthur Segal 1875–1944, Sept. 6–Oct. 18, 1987, cat. 296; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Nov. 28, 1987–Jan. 17, 1988; Regensburg, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Feb. 14–Apr. 10, 1988; Ascona, Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Apr. 30–June 5, 1988; The Tel Aviv Museum, 1988.
- New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Frameworks, Mar. 1–Apr. 18, 2012, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Memorial Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Woodcuts, Sculpture (1894-1944) by Arthur Segal, exh. cat. (London: The Royal Society of British Artists, 1945), 17, cat. 265 (not ill.), as Houses and Rainbow.
- Wulf Herzogenrath and Pavel Liška, eds., Arthur Segal 1875–1944, exh. cat. (Berlin: Argon, 1987), 343, cat. 296 (not ill.), as Regenbongen (Prismatisch).
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