+ Expand

Artist or Maker: Liubov Popova (1889-1924)

+ Expand

Provenance: Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by Christian Fischbacher in June 1978.

+ Expand

Exhibited: Zurich, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Vor den Toren der unbekannten Zukunft, June - September 1989.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kandinsky, no. 63 (inv. no. 713.83; from label on the reverse).

+ Expand

Literature: Exh. cat., M. Rowell & A. Zander Rudenstine, Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1981 (another set, acquired from the artist's brother P.S. Popov, illustrated pp. 150, 153-56, nos. 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115).
S. Frederick Starr, Collecting Art of the Avant-Garde by George Costakis, London & New York, 1981 (another set illustrated pp. 376, 378-382, nos. 834, 836, 838, 840, 843, 845, 847).
V. Sarabianov & N.L. Adaskina, Popova, New York, 1990 (another set illustrated pp. 122-126).
Exh. cat., M. Dabrowski, Ljubov Popowa, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1991 (another set illustrated nos. 70 a-g).

+ Expand

Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE CHRISTIAN FISCHBACHER

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.