id:			156570
accession number:	1992.277
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.277
updated:		2025-02-09 04:51:27.797000

Composition, 1924. Otto Freundlich (German, 1878–1943). Pastel; overall: 74.6 x 53.8 cm (29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.277

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creation date:			1924
creation date earliest:		1924
creation date latest:		1924
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creditline:			Bequest of Lockwood Thompson
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	pastel
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - German
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Otto Freundlich (German, 1878–1943)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 74.6 x 53.8 cm (29 3/8 x 21 3/16 in.)
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	inscription:	signed lower left:  O. F. [signed on back:  Otto Freundlich / Paris 1924]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Selected Acquisitions
	opening date:   1993-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

	title:		Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2016-11-19T05:00:00
	<i>Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).

	title:		The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
	opening date:   2017-04-07T00:00:00
	<i>The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris), sold to donor, 1938
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 277, no. 206
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

	"Art Together Family Workshops.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 6 (November/December 2016): 41.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 41.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-06

	Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. <em>The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 167, p. 344
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	Friedrich, Julia, ed. <em>Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism.</em> Cologne, Germany: Museum Ludwig; Basel, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Basel; Munich, Germany; London, England; New York, New York: Prestel, 2017. p. 141
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 141
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IMAGES

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