Untitled (Composition with Compass and Ruler)

Prints and Drawings

1915

Alexander Rodchenko
Russian, 1891–1956

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Artist: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Title: Untitled (Composition with Compass and Ruler)
Origin: Russia
Date: Made 1915
Medium: Watercolor and pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on cream wove paper, varnished
Dimensions: 295 × 200 mm
Credit Line: Promised gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: Obj: 202405

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.).

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.

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