Black Ground, White, Blue, Red, and Grey Forms*

Photo: Alex Delfanne - Stiftung Arp e. V., Berlin/Rolandswerth

Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943)

1931/1934

Additional titles

Composition à rectangles, cercles, barres et carré (Schmidt/Weber 1948, p. 133)

Material

Oil on canvas, in original frame (?)

Technique/object type

Painting

Dimensions

46 x 55,1 cm

CR Schmidt/Weber 1948

1931/15

Stamp

Oeuvre stamp (no. 1931/15) verso, top left

Location

Stiftung Arp e. V., Berlin/Rolandswerth

Currently on display

STARP-ID

5365

Last updated

23. February 2026

Exhibitions

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves - 2026 - Hauser & Wirth, Paris
Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Living Abstraction - 2021 - Kunstmuseum Basel / Tate Modern, London / The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1964 - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris

Literature

Exh. cat. Paris 2026 p. 182, ill. p. 25

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: la règle des courbes/The Rule of Curves, exh. cat. Hauser & Wirth, Paris, Altenburg 2026

Fer 2021 p. 171

Briony Fer: Balanceakt, in: Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Gelebte Abstraktion, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel/Tate Modern London/Museum of Modern Art New York, München 2021, pp. 170–174

Exh. cat. Basel 2021 cat. no. 252, p. 331, ill. p. 206

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Gelebte Abstraktion, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel/Tate Modern London/Museum of Modern Art New York, München 2021

Schmidt/Weber 1948 p. 133, ill. p. 67

Georg Schmidt (Ed.): Sophie Taeuber-Arp (with an oeuvre catalogue by Hugo Weber), Basel 1948

Buffet-Picabia 1935 p. 3, ill. (as »Fondo negro, formas blancas, aszules, rojas y grises«)

Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, in: Gaceta de arte. Revista internacional de cultura, 4 (1935), no. 34, p. 3

Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943)

Exhibitions

Literature

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