Fonction de lignes, courbes et droites

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Georges Vantongerloo (1886-1965)
Fonction de lignes, courbes et droites
signed, inscribed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title 'G. Vantongerloo/Paris 1937/122' (on the reverse)
pencil, ink and gouache on paper
20 x 12 cm.
Executed in 1937.

Provenance

The artist's studio.
Acquired from the above by Max Bill, Zürich.
By descent from the above to Angela Thomas Bill, Zürich.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

Jan Ceuleers, Georges Vantongerloo: 1886-1965, Antwerp, 1996, p. 200.

Exhibited

London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Naum Gabo, Georges Vantongerloo, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, 25 October - 15 December 2001, no. 48. London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Georges Vantongerloo: A Retrospective, 1 March - 22 April 2006, no. 48.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

The present lot was executed while Georges Vantongerloo was involved in the Abstract-Création movement, which he co-founded in 1931 with Auguste Herbin and Jean Hélion to promote abstract art when contemporary art in Paris had turned towards Surrealism and other representational art.

The present lot is a preliminary study for 'Fonction de lignes, courbes et droites' (no. 122, see: Ceuleers, 1996, p. 141).

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