Untitled (Paris, rue des Grands-Augustins)

1961

Bram van Velde
Dutch, 1895–1981

Status: On View, Gallery 291
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Bram van Velde
Title: Untitled (Paris, rue des Grands-Augustins)
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.: 1961
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 130 × 162 cm (51 1/4 × 63 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection; The Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and The Walter E. Heller Foundation and Eloise W. Martin Legacy endowment funds; Director's Discretionary Acquisition and Major Acquisitions Centennial funds
Reference Number: 2019.890

Jaques Putman and Charles Juliet, Bram van Velde (Paris: Maeght, 1975), p. 197, cat. 48, p. 85 (ill.)

New York, Knoedler Gallery, Bram van Velde, Oct. 27–Nov. 14, 1964, cat. 17 (ill.); traveled to Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Dec. 1964–Jan. 1965; San Francisco Museum of Art, Feb.–Mar. 1965; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Apr.–May 1965.
Cologne, Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Bram van Velde, Mar. 16–Apr. 17, 1966, cat. 29.
Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Bram van Velde, Nov.–Dec. 1966, cat. 62.
New York, Knoedler Gallery, Bram van Velde: Paintings, 1957–1967, Apr. 2–27, 1968, cat. 5 (ill.); traveled to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, May 6–June 2, 1968.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Bram van Velde, Dec. 2, 1970–Jan. 25, 1971, cat. 66 (ill.)
Basel, Kunsthalle, Bram van Velde, Apr. 24–May 31, 1971, cat. 62 (ill.).
New York, Lefèbre Gallery, Bram van Velde, 1895–1981, Feb.–Mar. 1982.
Genève, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Hommage à Bram van Velde, Oct. 19, 2006–Jan. 28, 2007.

Jacques Putman, Paris, 1961 [this and the following according to email from Joséphine Balloul, Apr. 29, 2019; photocopy in curatorial file]; sold through M. Knoedler, New York to Stéphane Janssen, La Hulpe, Belgium, 1967. Sold, Christie’s, London, Apr. 30, 1999, lot 20 to private collection, Europe; sold, Christie’s, London, Feb. 8, 2001, lot 15 to private collection, Paris; sold through David Levy et Associés to the Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 2019.

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