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Sophie Henriette Taeuber-Arp

Circles and Semicircles on Black Ground

c. 1935-38

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Sophie Henriette Taeuber-Arp

Circles and Semicircles on Black Ground

c. 1935-38

Physical Qualities Opaque watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 270 x 350 mm. (10 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.364
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May, Baltimore, by purchase, 1950; Pinacotheca Gallery, New York
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948 (Rotation 1)," 28 February - 4 June, 2001.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Sophie Taeuber-Arp". Kunstmuseum Basel, March 19, 2021 - June 20, 2021 circulated to Tate Modern, July 13, 2021 - October 17, 2021.
Umland, Anne. Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021, ill.

Inscribed: Verso: at bottom right, in graphite: "S. H. Tauber-Arp"; at top center, in graphite: "haut"

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