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Object Details

Artist

Olle Baertling, Swedish, b. Halmstad, 1911–1981

Provenance

Rose Fried Gallery, New York, to 29 May 1968
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 29 May 1968-14 May 1979
Gift of Rose Fried through the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1979

Exhibition History

ROSE FRIED GALLERY, New York. "The Angles of Baertling: Open Form Infinite Space: from Cinétisme to Open Form, 1949-1968," 14 May-8 June 1968, cat.

Published References

None recorded

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1979

Date

1949

Accession Number

79.21

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil and resin on canvas

Dimensions

39 1/2 × 30 7/8 in. (100.2 × 78.4 cm)

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School

Geometric Abstraction

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2787627da-1dc4-4731-8c12-2aea74bea3e3

Record ID

hmsg_79.21

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