Although I'm a devotee of Mondrian, I think he was harsh in his judgment of and rash in his rejection of van Doesburg. I intend to assemble here a collection of TvD's pieces and other bits, the initial motivation being to gather images for use in a stained glass project - the six likely candidates are shown.
It seems clear that TvD took on several of PM's ideas to use in his own works, nevertheless, Théo's pieces were sometimes more adventurous and more interesting. He also played a significant rôle in developing several art movements and encouraging numerous individual artists to fruition.
Here's his Wikipedia entry.
And here are the fused glass pieces which I intend to use in a leaded window.
| [Oct13] FENSTERENTWURF (design for a stained glass window) This was sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on Jun 20, 2013. Estimate £4-6,000 but it sold for £30k. Dimensions: 22.75 X 13.75 in. Medium: gouache and pencil on paper Signed Provenance: Galerie & Edition Schlégl, Zurich Acquired from the above by the late owner in 1984 Here's the Sotheby's entry. |
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| Girl with Buttercups, 1914 |
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| Cosmic Sun, 1915 |
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| Composition, 1915 |
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| Mouvement héroïque, 1916 |
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| Composition II (Still Life), 1916 |
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| Tree, 1916 |
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| Dance I, 1917 |
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| Stained Glass Composition, Female Head, 1917 |
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| Composition IX, Opus 18, 'Decomposition' of The Card Players, 1917 |
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| Composition (The Cow), c.1917 |
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| Composition VIII (The Cow), c.1918 |
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| Rhythm of a Russian Dance, 1918 |
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| Stained glass Composition IX for housing in the Spangen district, Rotterdam, 1918-19 |
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| Composition XI, 1918 |
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| Composition in Dissonances, 1919 |
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| Composition XVIII in Three Parts |
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| Stained glass window for the Scholl of Agriculture, Drachten, 1921 Now at the Wellesley College Museum. |
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| Headed letter paper for De Stijl, 1921 |
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| Theo and Nelly van Doesburg, Weimar, 1921. |
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| I.K. Bonset (TvD) Composition c. 1921 |
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| I.K. Bonset, Nelly van Doesburg in disguise |
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| Design for The Sower, stained glass window, 1922 |
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| Portrait of Pétro (Nelly van Doesburg), c.1922 |
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| Theo and Nelly with their B134. Paris, October 1923, photographer unknown |
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| TvD working on a model of the Maison Particuli�re, Paris. 1923, photographer unknown. Source. The second photograph is TvD with Cornelis van Eesteren, his collaborator on this work. |
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| In addition to the model, many drawings of their design were produced. One is shown on the cover of Baljeu'sTheo van Doesburg, one of the sources for this page. The design was also celebrated in a Dutch stamp issue on the 65c value. The 50c stamp shows Mondrian's B134 which van Doesburg owned (shown in the photograph two entries above). That's too much of a coincidence to be unintentional. |
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| Counter-Composition IV, 1924 Oil on canvas. 51.5 � 50.5 cm. |
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| Counter-Composition V, 1924 Oil on canvas, 100 � 100 cm, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. |
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| Counter-Composition VIII, 1924 Oil on canvas, 101 x 101 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Peggy Guggenheim. Source. The installation shot, found here shows the work in Maison Van Doesburg, Meudon-Val-Fleury. Two more shots of the interior from Baljeu. |
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| Counter-Composition XII, 1924 Oil on canvas. 52 � 21,5 cm' Musée de Grenoble. |
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| Composition, 1924 |
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| Poster design for The Little Review, 1925 Echoed on the front cover of the recent Tate exhibition. |
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| Counter-Composition VI, 1925 |
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| Counter-Composition XIV, 1925 Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. And a study, source. |
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| Counter-Composition, 1925 |
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| Counter-Composition XVI, 1925 Oil on canvas. 100 � 180 cm, Haags Gemeentemuseum. and a 1924 study for the piece. Source. The photograph shows Theo, Nelly and their dog Dada, with the dancer Kamares in front of the painting. |
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| Counter-Composition XIII, 1925-26 Oil on canvas, 50 � 50 cm, Guggenheim Museum, New York. |
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| Composition in Half-Tones, 1928 |
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| Counter-Composition XX, c.1928 |
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| Simultaneous Composition XXIV, 1929 Oil on canvas, 50.2 � 50.4 cm, Yale University Art Gallery. |
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| Simultaneous Counter-Composition, 1929 |
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| Simultaneous Counter-Composition, 1929 Oil on canvas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
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| Cupera (Nelly van Doesburg) Little White Jar, 1929 |
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| Composition, 1929 |
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| Arithmetic Composition, 1929-30 Oil on canvas, 101 x 101 cm, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (on loan from a private collection). |
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| Simultaneous Counter-Composition, 1930 Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm, MoMA. |
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| Nelly van Doesburg (ed.) The last issue of De Stijl, 1932 Edited by Nelly, following Theo's death in 1931. |
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| Jon Rafman Theo van Doesburg Plane Crash, 2010 The first featured homage. Source. |
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On this page temporarily, I must also make one of these
| Triptiek (Triptych), 1921 Wood and oil on panel, 13 x 13 cm (closed), On loan to the Haags Gemeentemuseum from a private collection. It is much smaller than I thought, 13cm square, 5.1 inches. The images are taken from the cover of De Stijl: The Formative Years, one of the sources for this page. |
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