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Georges Vantongerloo, Spiral with Certain Spots, 1946

Georges Vantongerloo Antwerp, Belgium, 1886-1965

Spiral with Certain Spots, 1946
Oil on masonite
738 × 588 mm
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Provenance

The artist
Georges Baines Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
Bernard Baines
Private collection, Switzerland
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp

Exhibitions

Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 1st Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Abstract Art, Concrete Art, Constructivism, Non-Figurative, July 1946
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Antoine Pevsner, Georges Vantongerloo, Max Bill, 15 October – 13 November 1949, no. 78
Washington, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georges Vantongerloo. A Traveling Retrospective Exhibition, 22 April – 17 June 1980, no. 176 (later shown in Dallas and Los Angeles)
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Georges Vantongerloo 1886–1965, 23 January – 16 March 1981, no. 176
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Georges Vantongerloo, 3 April – 17 May 1981, no. 176
Antwerp, Ronny Van de Velde, Georges Vantongerloo 1886–1965, 15 December 1996 – 31 March 1997, OCNO no. 176
Barcelona, MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, 19 April – 18 June 2000, no. 232 (later at the Hayward Gallery)
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, Georges Vantongerloo 1886–1965, A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, 28 October 2007 – 2 March 2008 (later at Mu.ZEE)
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Georges Vantongerloo: A Longing for Eternity, 3 November 2009 – 22 February 2010

Literature

Georges Vantongerloo, Paintings, Sculptures, Reflections, in Problems of Contemporary Art No. 5, New York, 1948, no. 176, Wittenborn, fig. 44
Georges Vantongerloo: A Traveling Retrospective Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art / Dallas Museum of Fine Arts / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Loiseau, Brussels 1980, p. 146
Jan Ceuleers, Ronny Van de Velde, Georges Vantongerloo 1886–1965, Antwerp, OCNO, 1996–1997, no. 176, p. 157 illustrated
Serge Lemoine, Georges Vantongerloo (1886–1965). A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, Musée Matisse, 2007, p. 148 illustrated
Larkin Erdmann, Five Years, Zurich, 2019, pp. 83–84
Ostend, Mu.ZEE, Belgium–Argentina. Transatlantic Modernisms, 1910–1958, 2022
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