About This Artwork

Georges Vantongerloo
Belgian, 1886–1965

Curving Function Greenish Brown, 1938

Oil on hardboard
24 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (62.8 x 46.3 cm)
none
Marian and Samuel Klasstorner Fund, 1984.522

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Rome, Fondazione Origine, Omaggio a Georges Vantangerloo, 1953.

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Plus by Minus, March 3–April 14, 1968, no. 217.

Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Geometric Abstraction, October 7–November 19, 1972, no. 53.

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georges Vantongerloo: A Traveling Retrospective Exhibition, April 22–June 17, 1980, no. 135; traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, July16–September 14, 1980; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 9–December 28, 1980.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1984–85), p. 23 (ill.).

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clark, Dallas, by 1968 [Buffalo 1968]. B. C. Holland Inc., Chicago, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.