Dessin pour la couverture de "L'architecture vivante"

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THEO VAN DOESBURG (1883-1931)
Dessin pour la couverture de "L'architecture vivante"
incribed 'gris' (lower left)
gouache, pen and brush and India ink and paper collage on book cover
11 ¼ x 9 1⁄8 in. (28.6 x 23.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1925

Provenance

Jean Badovici, Veselay (probably acquired from the artist).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 3 November 1978, lot 400.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Literature

A. Venema, Nederlandse schilders in Parijs, 1900-1940, Baarn, 1980, p. 112 (illustrated in color upside down, p. 113; dated 1923).
E. Hoek, ed., Theo Van Doesburg: Oeuvre catalogue, exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2000, p. 408, no. 761 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

Jean Badovici was an influential Modern designer and architect in France in the first half of the twentieth century. He was notably the founder of the Bauhaus, Constructivist and de Stijl magazine L'Architecture Vivante, which he started in 1923, and for which the present work was a proposed cover.

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