About This Artwork

Georges Vantongerloo
Belgian, 1886–1965

Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid, 1926

Plaster
15 3/4 x 18 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (40 x 47 x 26 cm)
Signed, l.l. with artist's monogram: GV
Through prior gift of Lucille E. and Joseph L. Block; partial gift in memory of Lillian Florsheim, 2004.245

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zurich

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Exposition d’art abstrait, 1929.

Zurich, Switzerland, Internationale Ausstellung. Plastik, July 25–September 30, 1931, no. 184.

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Les premiers maîtres de l’art abstrait, 1949.

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georges Vantongerloo, 22 April–17 June 1980; traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 16 July–14 September 1980, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 9 October–28 December 1980, cat. no. 31 (illus.).

Publication History

G. Vantongerloo, “Principe d’unité,” I 10 internationale review, vol. 1, nr. 3 (1927): p. 96 (illus.).

___, “Principe d’unité,” Cercle et Carré, no. 1 (March 15, 1930): n.p. (illus.)

Katarzyna Kobro and Wladyslaw Strzeminski, “Kompozycja prze strzeni oblicze nia rytmu czaso przestrzennego,” Bibljoteki A.R., no. 2 (1931): fig. 26.

Georges Vantongerloo, Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections (New York: Wittenborn Schulz, 1948), fig. 9.

Michel Seuphor, Die Plastik unseres Jahrhunderts (Neuchâtel: Du Griffon, 1959), p. 58.

___. L'art abstrait, vol. 2 (Paris: Maeght), no. 107 (illus.).

Juan Daniel Fullaondo, “Georges Vantongerloo desde El Stijl a la Aurora Boreal,” Nueva Forma (no. 75: 1972).

Ceuleers, Jan. Georges Vantongerloo, 1886-1965. Antwerpen: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1996, p. 85 (illus. p. 89).

Ownership History

Purchased from the artist by Lillian H. Florsheim, Chicago, through Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris, August 8, 1958; by descent to her grandson, Geoffrey Goldberg, Chicago, c. 1988; sold to the At Institute of Chicago, August 18, 2004.