Lot 33. Composition no. 3 Emanating from the Equilateral Triangle

Jean Albert Gorin
(1899 – 1981)
Created: 
1926

enamel on canvas
68,5 x 59,5 cm
verso signed and dated: GORIN 1926
verso inscribed: COMPOSITION N´3, CN 20 and old stamp

Provenance:
– Private collection


Publicated:
– Van Doesburg & the Internationala Avant-Garde, constructing a New World, (edited by Gladys Frabre & Doris Wingens Hotte), Tate Publishing, 2009, reproduced on the page 210, no. 174
– Jan Gorin, L´oeuvre de Jean Gorin, (author Marianne Le Pommeré), Waser Verlag, Zurich, 1985, reproduced on the page 127, no. 62 P


Exhibited:
– Nantes 1930, Première Exposition de la néo-plastique, Galerie L’Etrave
– Nantes 1965 (27. 02.–30. 03.), Retrospective Jean Gorin, Musée des Beaux-arts
– Paris 1974, Exposition Abstraction Création, (15. 03.–15. 04.), 13 Rue Saint Honoré, Paris 1
– Nantes 1977 (11. 05.–27. 06.), Retrospective Jean Gorin, Musée des Beaux-arts
– Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (20. 10. 2009–03. 01. 2010), Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World
– London 2010 (04. 02.–16. 05.), Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World, TATE Gallery London
– Brussels 2016 (26. 02.–29. 05.), Theo van Doesburg. Une nouvelle expression de a vie, de l‘art et de la technologie

This is the first auction sale of the painting.

Jean Gorin‘s neoplasticist paintings from 1926–1927 do not appear on the art market at all (the author destroyed most of his work in 1937) and are completely rare and unique.

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Starting/Selling price
16.000.000 Kč
  |  
EUR 666 670
Price realized
16.250.000 Kč