Untitled (Composition with Compass and Ruler)

Prints and Drawings

1915

Alexander Rodchenko
Russian, 1891–1956

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Title: Untitled (Composition with Compass and Ruler)
Place: Russia (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.: Made 1915
Medium: Watercolor and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, varnished
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in brush and white ink; "Rodchencko. 15." [in Cyrillic]; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "93"
Dimensions: 29.5 × 20 cm (11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2022.92

Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Grossen Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre, 1977, pp. 1/64. cat. 1/51, fig. 8.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Liberated Colour and Form: Russian Non-Objective Art 1915–1922, 1978, p. 30, cat. 59.
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Rodchenko, 1979, p. 9 (ill.) (traveled).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910–1930: New Perspectives, 1980, pp 232, 234, cat. 28 (traveled).
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 88 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020.

Galerie Ricard, Nuremburg. Galerie La Boëtie (Helen Serger), New York, 1979. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Nov. 17, 1983, lot 327. Madeleine Haas Russell; sold, Christie’s, New York, Nov. 9, 1999, lot 506, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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