Composition in three parts*

Photo: Matthew Kroening, Private Collection. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Collection Services.

Title:

Artist(s):

Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889–1943)

Dating:

1933

Additional titles:

Triptyque I-III (Schmidt/Weber 1948, p. 133)

Material:

Oil on canvas (work in three parts)

Technique/object type:

Painting

Dimensions:

each 50 x 50 cm

CR Schmidt/Weber 1948:

1933/5–1933/7

Location:

Private owner

STARP-ID:

5332

Last updated:

17 January 2023

Exhibitions

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Living Abstraction - 2021 - Kunstmuseum Basel / Tate Modern, London / The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Heute ist Morgen - 2014 - Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau / Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1981 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1973 - Galleria Narciso, Turin
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1971 - Galerie Krugier & Cie, Genf
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1970 - Albert Loeb & Krugier Gallery, New York
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1964 - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
From Hodler to Klee. Swiss Art of the Twentieth Century. Paintings and Sculpture - 1959 - Tate Gallery, London
Sophie Taeuber-Arp - 1954 - Kunstmuseum Bern / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Konstruktivisten - 1937 - Kunsthalle Basel

Literature

Sidlina 2021 II ill. pp. 72-73

Natalia Sidlina (Ed.): Sophie Taeuber-Arp, London 2021

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. 257, p. 331, ill. p. 210/211

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

Krupp 2020 pp. 55ff., fig. 31, p. 58

Walburga Krupp: Sophie Taeuber-Arp – Equilibre, Zürich 2020

Exh. cat. Aarau 2014 cat. no. 207, ill. p. 157

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Heute ist morgen, exh. cat. Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau/Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Zürich 2014

Exh. cat. Remagen 1993 I ill. p. 19

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. 1889–1943, exh. cat. Bahnhof Rolandseck Remagen/Kunsthalle Tübingen/Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München/Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Stuttgart 1993

Lanchner 1981 p. 13

Carolyn Lanchner: Sophie Taeuber-Arp: An Introduction, in: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art New York/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago/Museum of Fine Arts Houston/Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, New York 1981, pp. 9-21

Exh. cat. New York 1981 p. 53, plate 24, ill. p. 38

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art New York/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago/Museum of Fine Arts Houston/Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, New York 1981

Exh. cat. Bern 1954 cat. no. 26, p. 22

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, exh. cat. Berner Kunstmuseum, Bern 1954

Schmidt/Weber 1948 p. 133, ill. p. 68

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

Allianz 1940 ill. p. 19 as »Dreiteilige Komposition« (Composition in three parts)

“Allianz” Vereinigung moderner Schweizer Künstler (Ed.): Almanach neuer Kunst in der Schweiz (edited by Leo Leuppi and Richard Lohse), Zürich 1940

Exh. cat. Basel 1937 ill. n. p.

Konstruktivisten, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 1937

Brzekowski 1934 ill. p. 200 (central part of the composition, rotated; ?)

Jan Brzekowski: Les quatre noms: Hans Arp, Ghika, Jean Helion, S.H. Taeuber-Arp. À propos de leur exposition à la Galerie des Cahiers d’art, in: Christian Zervos (Ed.): Cahier d’art. Bulletin mensuel d’actualité artistique, 9e année, Paris 1934, pp. 197–200

Exhibitions

Literature

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