
Art Institute of Chicago
The Glass of Absinthe
Louis Marcoussis · 1912
Provenance
Ownership history
- Herwarth Walden (1879–1941), Berlin, by 1913 [verso label and Berlin 1913]. Kate Steinitz (1889-1975), New York, by 1941 [verso label]. Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles [verso label]. Maxine Kunstadter, Chicago, by 1978; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Der Sturm, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, 1913, cat. 278, as La Maminette.
- Berlin, Der Sturm, Gleizes, J. Villon, J. Evola, Toni Donas, Sonia Delaunay, 1921.
Literature
Published references
- Der Sturm, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, exh. cat. (Berlin: Der Sturm, 1913), p. 25, cat. 278, as La Maminette.
- Jean Lafranchis, Marcoussis: sa vie, son oeuvre… (Paris: Éditions du Temps, 1961), p. 242 no. P.24 (ill.), as Nature Morte: Dominos, Verre, Pipe, 1912.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1980), p. 53, no. 2F1, as La Mominette, 1912.
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