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Sophie Taeuber-Arp. “Flight”: Round Relief in Three Heights. 1937. Oil on
plywood. Diam.: 23 5/8" (60 cm), depth: 2 3/8" (6 cm). Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin.
Photo Alex Delfanne

Nic Aluf. Sophie Taeuber with her Dada Head. 1920. Gelatin silver print on board.
4 5/8x3 3/4" (11.7x9.6 cm). Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin. Photo: Wolfgang Morell

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Four Spaces with Broken Cross. 1932. Oil on canvas.
29 5/16 × 25 3/8" (74.5 × 64.5 cm). Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Art
Resource, NY, photo Bertrand Prévost

Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Circle Picture. 1933. Oil on canvas. 29 1/4×47 3/16"
(74.3×119.8 cm). Kunstmuseum Bern. Gift of Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach ©
Kunstmuseum Bern

The exhibition will also present works related to the various
interior design projects that Taeuber-Arp carried out in
the late 1920s in Strasbourg, most notably the decorative
program for the Aubette entertainment complex; furniture
and working drawings for the interior design and furnishing
commissions she received after moving to Paris in 1929;
abstract paintings and painted wood reliefs that employ a
reduced geometric vocabulary, done in the 1930s, when
Taeuber-Arp participated in avant-garde artists’ groups such
as Cercle et Carré and Abstraction-Création; and precisely
controlled.

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