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Sophie Henriette Taeuber-Arp

Off-Center Forms

1928

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Sophie Henriette Taeuber-Arp

Off-Center Forms

1928

Physical Qualities Opaque watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 300 x 259 mm. (11 13/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.365
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May, Baltimore, by gift of Rose Fried [Pinacotheca Gallery Director], 1950; Pinacotheca Gallery, New York
Dr. & Mrs. Israel Rosen, Baltimore, February 7 - March 13, 1957.

BMA, "Women Artists," April 18 - June 18, 1972.

BMA, "Saidie A. May Collection," September 6 - November 22, 1972.

BMA, 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" November 12, 2021 - March 12, 2022.
Fellehner, Zuni and Kirsten Fabiniski. "Wenn ich Sophie Taeuber-Arp wäre... "(Activity Book) Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 2021
Umland, Anne. Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021, ill.

Inscribed: Recto: none; Verso: at bottom center, in graphite: "formes desaxées / S.H. Tauber-Arp 1928"; at top center, in graphite: "haut"

Markings: Recto: none; Verso: two export stamps printed in black ink

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