About This Artwork

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
French, born Switzerland, 1887–1965

Abstract Composition, 1927

Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 10 3/4 in. (41 x 27.3 cm)
none
Bequest from the estate of Hedwig B. Schniewind, 1963.865

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Art Institute (Junior Museum), The French Influence, August 10, 1985–1987.

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 84P.

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1963–64, p.19

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), no. 2D8, p. 50.

Ownership History

Hedwig B. Schniewind, gift from the artist, December 1934–1963. Bequest from Hedwig B. Schniewind to Art Institute, 1963.