
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Composition with Compass and Ruler)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko · 1915
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie Ricard, Nuremburg. Galerie La Boëtie (Helen Serger), New York, 1979. Sold, Sotheby's, New York, Nov. 17, 1983, lot 327. Madeleine Haas Russell; sold, Christie's, New York, Nov. 9, 1999, lot 506, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Grossen Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre, 1977, pp. 1/64. cat. 1/51, fig. 8.
- Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Liberated Colour and Form: Russian Non-Objective Art 1915–1922, 1978, p. 30, cat. 59.
- Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Rodchenko, 1979, p. 9 (ill.) (traveled).
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910–1930: New Perspectives, 1980, pp 232, 234, cat. 28 (traveled).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 88 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020.
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