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SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP:

LIVING ABSTRACTION
The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art announces Sophie Taeuber-Arp:
Living Abstraction, the first major US exhibition in nearly 40
years to survey this multifaceted abstract artist’s innovative
and wide-ranging body of work. On view November 1, 2020,
to February 15, 2021, the exhibition will explore the artist’s
interdisciplinary approach to abstraction through some 400
works assembled from over 80 public and private collections
in Europe and the US, including textiles, beadwork,
polychrome marionettes, architectural and interior designs,
stained glass windows, works on paper, paintings, and
relief sculptures. Following its presentation at MoMA, the
exhibition will be shown at the Kunstmuseum Basel (March
19–June 20, 2021) in Taeuber-Arp’s native Switzerland, and at
Tate Modern in London (July 13–October 17, 2021), where it
will be the first-ever retrospective of the artist in the United
Kingdom.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Dada Head. Zurich, 1920. Painted wood. 11 9/16 ×
5½ × 5½” (29.4 × 14 × 14 cm). Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art
Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Moderne, Paris. © 2020 Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin/Rolandswerth / Artists
Rights Society (ARS), New York
Basel, and Tate Modern.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles. 1930. Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Relief rectangulaire, cercles découpés, cônes
Oil on canvas. 19 ½ x 25 ¾” (49.5 x 64.1 cm). The Museum of Modern surgissants. 1936. Painted wood. 21 5/8 × 25 9/16 × 6 3/8″ (55 × 65 × 16.2
Art, New York. The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation. Photo: The cm). Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, gift of the founder Maja Sacher-
Museum of Modern Art, Department of Imaging and Visual Resources. © Stehlin 1937, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.
2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Photo: Bisig & Bayer, Basel. © 2020 Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin/Rolandswerth /
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New Yor

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