File:Theo van Doesburg Composition VII (the three graces).jpg

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Theo van Doesburg: Composition VII (The Three Graces)

Artist



Alternative names	Emile Küpper, Christian Emil Marie Küpper, I.K. Bonset, Aldo Camini
Description	Dutch architect, painter, drawer and writer
Date of birth/death	30 August 1883	7 March 1931
Location of birth/death	Utrecht	Davos
Work period	1899-1931
Work location	Amsterdam (1899-1914), Amersfoort (September 1908), Apeldoorn (July 1910), Fort bij Veldhuis (Heemskerk) (July 1914), Groesbeek (May 1915-June 1915, September 1916), Utrecht (September 1915-1916), Zoeterwoude (1916), Leiden (1916-1921), Paris (28 March 1921), Weimar (1921-1924), Rügen (July 1922-August 1922), Paris (1923), Clamart (1924-1930), Belle-Île-en-Mer (June 1924), Strasbourg (September 1926-February 1928), San Sebastián (1927), Antrain (Summer 1929 date QS:P,+1929-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720564 ), The Hague (1929), Auvers-sur-Oise (September 1930), Meudon (December 1930-February 1931), Davos (March 1931)
Authority file	: Q160422 VIAF: 39646290 ISNI: 0000000121291941 ULAN: 500007926 LCCN: n79133763 NLA: 35039604 WorldCat

Title

Compositie VII: ‘de drie Gratiën’ (Composition VII: The Three Graces)

Object type

painting

Genre

abstract art

Date

Between 1 January 1917 and 9 May 1917

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 85 cm (33.4 in); width: 85 cm (33.4 in)

Collection

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

	Native name	Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
	Parent institution	Washington University in St. Louis
	Location	Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis
	Coordinates	38° 38′ 49.92″ N, 90° 18′ 09.72″ W
	Established	1881
	Website	kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
	Authority file	: Q6129019 VIAF: 124140078 ISNI: 0000000121068459 LCCN: no2005027904 SUDOC: 13914854X NKC: ko20211106510 WorldCat

Current location

not on view

Accession number

WU 3812

Place of creation

Leiden

Object history

circa 1921: acquired by Lena Milius (1889-1968), The Hague, from Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), Leiden/Weimar
Unknown date: acquired by Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975), Meudon, from Lena Milius, The Hague
1947: purchased by the Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, from Nelly van Doesburg, Meudon, through The Art of this Century Gallery, New York City

Exhibition history

Catalogus. Tentoonstelling van schilderijen, Domburg, July 1917–August 1917, cat. no. 8, as Vijfde compositie, 1917, motief: ‘De drie gratiën’.

Société des Artistes Indépendants. 46e exposition, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, 18 January 1935–3 March 1935, cat. no. 1063, p. 75, as Les trois grâces, 1916.

Cubism and abstract art, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 2 March 1936–19 April 1936, cat. no. 51 (photograph), p. 208, as Three Graces, 1916.

Konstruktivisten (?), Kunsthalle, Basel, 16 January 1937–14 February 1937.

Art Concret, 15 June 1945–13 July 1945, Galerie René Drouin, Paris, Cat.no. 10, as Composition VII, 1917.

Theo van Doesburg, Retrospective exhibition, Art of this Century Gallery, New York City, 29 April 1947–31 May 1947, cat. no. 19, as Composition 7.

Exhibition of paintings from Washington University, Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, April 1966.

Theo van Doesburg, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 13 December 1968–26 January 1969, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 17 February 1969–23 March 1969, cat. no. A12, as Compositie VII ‘de drie gratieën’, 1917.

Theo van Doesburg 1883-1931/Konstruktive Kunst, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, 18 April 1969–1 June 1969, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 9 August 1969–7 September 1969, cat. no. A11, as Kompositie VII ‘Die drei Grazien’, 1917.

Cubists, surrealists and expressionists, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, 15 May 1983–4 September 1983, no catalogue.

La beauté exacte. Art Pays-Bas XXe siècle. De Van Gogh à Mondrian, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 25 March 1994–17 July 1994, cat. no. 2, p. 289, with color image on p. 241, as Composition VII dite Les Trois Grâces, 1917.

A Gallery of Modern Art, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, 15 August 1994–16 October 1994, ISBN 0936316160, p. 104-105, cat. no. 44.

Credit line

Purchased by Washington University with support of the Yeatman Fund.

Inscriptions

Monogram and date verso:

19 TVD 17

References

AnonymousUnknown author, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, as Compositie VII: ‘de drie Gratiën’ (Composition VII: The Three Graces), 1917.

AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 215348, as Composition VII (the three Graces), 1917

Els Hoek (ed.; 2000) Theo van Doesburg. Oeuvrecatalogus, Bussum: Uitgeverij Thot, ISBN 90-6868-255-5, p. 194-196, cat. no. 552, with color image, as Compositie VII (de drie gratiën), 1917, januari-mei.

Polano, Sergio (1979) Theo van Doesburg. Scritti di arte e di architettura, Roma: Officina Edizione, cat. no. PITT/110, p. 526, as Compositie VII. « Le tre grazie », 1917.

Source/Photographer

kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu : Home : Info

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