Abstract Composition

1927

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

Status: On View, Gallery 393
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
Title: Abstract Composition
Place: France (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.: 1927
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 41 × 27.3 cm (16 1/8 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest from the estate of Hedwig B. Schniewind
Reference Number: 1963.865
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC

Art Institute, Annual Report 1963-64 (Chicago: Art Institute, 1964), p. 19, as Abstract Composition.
Grung, Sandra, Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1971), p. 20, as Abstract Composition.
Speyer, A. James and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 17, 50 (no. 2D8), as Abstract Composition, 1927.

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

The artist; acquired by Carl O. Schniewind (1900-1957), Chicago; by descent to his wife, Hedwig B. Schniewind (died 1963); bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 25, 1963.

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