Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Composition

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Modern and Contemporary Art

Composition

Made in France, Europe

1936

Hans Hartung, French (born Germany), 1904 - 1989

Oil on canvas
33 3/16 x 22 1/8 inches (84.3 x 56.2 cm)

Currently not on view

1952-61-46

A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952

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Provenance

A. E. Gallatin, New York, purchased from the artist, summer 1938 [1]; bequest to PMA, 1952. 1. Gallatin visited Hartung's Paris studio in June 1938, where he chose "Composition". See Gail Stavitsky, The Development, Institutionalization, and Impact of the A. E. Gallatin Collection of Modern Art [Ph.D. dissertation, New York University], 1990, v. 2, p. 377-378, and v. 7, p. 116; and Museum of Living Art press release, November 19, 1938.