Landscape (Bordeaux II)

Modern Art

1918

Amédée Ozenfant
French, 1886–1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Amédée Ozenfant
Title: Landscape (Bordeaux II)
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.: 1918
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: s.l.l. A.Ozenfant 1918
Dimensions: 55 × 45 cm (21 × 16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Kate L. Brewster
Reference Number: 1950.126
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1929), cat. 20, as Paysage.
Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1938), cat. 89, as Paysage.
Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, 3 (September 15, 1950), p. 54.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 348, as Landscape.
Amédée Ozenfant, Memoires, 1886–1962 (Paris: Éditions Seghers, 1968), p. 99.
Sandra Grung, “Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection” (unpub., Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 83.
Susan L. Ball, “Ozenfant and Purism: The Evolution of a Style, 1915–1930,” vol. I (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1978), pp. 116–18, 397–98, cat. 11, as Bordeaux/Landscape.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 60–61, no. 3B12, as Landscape.
Françoise Ducros, “Ozenfant et l’Esthétique Puriste: Une Géométrie de l’Objet,” Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne 12 (1983), pp. 274, 275, fig. 6, as Bordeaux II.
Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Amédée Ozenfant, exh. cat. (Saint-Quentin: Musée Antoine Lécuyer, 1985), p. 86, cat. 17, as Bordeaux II (ill.).
Carol S. Eliel, et. al., L’Esprit nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918–1925, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 77, 78, and 180, fig. 55.
Françoise Ducros, Ozenfant (Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 2002), pp. 46, 49, no. 39, as Paysage (Bordeaux II) (ill.).
Robert Scherkl, Machine à émouvoir: Über das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis im Purismus (Weimar: VDG, 2004), pp. 35-36, fig. 2 (ill.), 253.

Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4–18, 1929, cat. 20, as Paysage.
Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster, Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, January 20–22, 1933, cat. 50, as Paysage.
Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4–25, 1938, cat. 89, as Paysage.
Art Institute of Chicago, Collection Brewster, September 1950, no cat..
Saint-Quentin, Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Amédée Ozenfant, October 5–December 2, 1985, cat. 17, as Bordeaux II (ill.); traveled to Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts, December 15, 1985–February 15, 1986, Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, March 1–May 1, 1986, and Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines, May 15–July 15, 1986.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L’Esprit nouveau: Purism in Paris, 1918–1925, April 29–August 5, 2001, fig. 55, as Landscape (Bordeaux II); traveled to the Musée de Grenoble, October 6, 2001–January 6, 2002.

Sold through Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris, to Walter S. Brewster (1872–1954) and Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947), Chicago, Nov. 1928 [invoice, Nov. 1928, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Kate Brewster to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

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