About This Artwork
Amédée Ozenfant
French, 1886-1966
Maroc1919
Black pastel, with graphite, over brown pencil on ivory wove paper
482 x 610 mm
Signed recto, lower right corner, in graphite: "ozenfant 19" (underlined)
Worcester Sketch Fund income, 1971.652
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.
Publication History
L’Esprit Nouveau 27 (1924), n.p. (ill.).
Susan L. Ball, Ozenfant and Purism: The Evolution of a Style, 1915–1930, vol. I, Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1978, pp. 182, 185, and 407–8, cat. 22a, fig. 90.
Françoise Durcos, Ozenfant et l’Esthétique Puriste: Une Géométrie de l’Objet, Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne 12 (1983), p. 277, fig. 10.
Ownership History
Sold by Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, to Bud C. Holland, Chicago, 1971 [Ball 1978]; sold to the Art Institute, 1971.