1987.87: Construction of Colors
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1987.87
- People
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Theo van Doesburg, Dutch (Utrecht, Netherlands 1883 - 1931 Davos, Switzerland)
- Title
- Construction of Colors
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Construction des couleurs
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1923
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/221395
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- gouache and graphite over print on paper, wrapped around wooden stretcher
- Dimensions
- 57 x 57 cm (22 7/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Nelly van Doesburg, sold; to Fredric Wertham, 1947 or 1949, gift of his wife Hesketh; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1987.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Fredric Wertham Collection, Gift of his wife Hesketh
- Accession Year
- 1987
- Object Number
- 1987.87
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Peter Nisbet and Emilie Norris, Busch-Reisinger Museum: History and Holdings, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 72, ill.
- Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 132
Exhibition History
- Theo van Doesburg Painter Poet Architect, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 03/12/2000 - 06/18/2000
- HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/2008 - 03/02/2008
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