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Seated Female Nude, her Hand on her Head
Theo van Doesburg (signed by artist), 1916
Van Doesburg described in a letter that he had attempted ‘to introduce rhythmical movement in the torso and create a flat sense of space through lines and planes’ in this work. The drawing was the result of ‘further abstraction,’ by which he meant reducing the subject-matter to elementary forms. As for his colleague Mondrian, for Van Doesburg this was the path to a new, universal art.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-1955-62
- Dimensionsheight 229 mm x width 159 mm
- Physical characteristicspen en penseel in zwart en grijs