Division of Surfaces

1954

Richard Lindner
American, born Germany, 1901-1978

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Richard Lindner
Title: Division of Surfaces
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1954
Medium: Graphite and watercolor, with smudging, on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right: "Richard Lindner / 1954"; inscribed, lower right: "DIVISION DE SURFACES / to Renée[e?]"
Dimensions: 70.6 × 40 cm (27 13/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.331
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Architectural Digest (1973), p. 19 (ill.; Bergman residence).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 169–71, cat. 85 (color ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections,” 1973, n.p.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Richard Lindner: A Retrospective Exhibition,” 1977, p. 27.

Sold by Galleria Galatea, Milan, to B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago, 1972 [Jeanne Havemayer of B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago, fax of April 26, 1995]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1972; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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