Lot 175: Fonction de lignes

Georges Vantongerloo (1886-1965) Fonction de lignes gouache, watercolor and brush and pen and India ink on paper 19 1/8 x 23½ in. (48.6 x 59.7 cm.) Executed in 1936

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Zurich, Kunsthaus, A Travelling Retrospective Exhibition: Georges Vantongerloo, April 1980-May 1981, no. 92 (illustrated).
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Dada-Constructivism, September-December 1984, no. 146 (illustrated in color).
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 25 Years: Masterpieces of the Avant-garde, September-December 1985, no. 47 (illustrated in color, p. 172).
London, Annely Juda Fine Art and Juda Rowan Gallery, From Figuration to Abstraction, October-December 1986, no. 58.
New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, "Cercle et Carre": Thoughts for the 1930s, October-November 1990, no. 31 (illustrated).

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Robert Elkon, New York.
Alain Tarica, Paris.
Annely Juda Fine Art, London (by 1984).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, May 1987.

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Dr. Angela Thomas Schmid has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

This work is related to the larger oil painting Fonction noir rouge (huile/triplex) which was originally bought by the famous collector Hilla von Rebay and sold at Christie's Amsterdam on 7 December 2006, lot 315.