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| Theo van Doesburg art links |
Theo van Doesburg Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 4 works online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Girl with Ranunculuses
Centraal Museum Database, Utrecht, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Many works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "D"
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
4 works by van Doesburg
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Counter-composition XV, 1925
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands
2 works online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Theo van Doesburg at The Athenaeum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Theo van Doesburg 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Theo van Doesburg: The splintered self", 2010 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard
"Theo van Doesburg: A shock to the system", 2010 article by Brian Sewell
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Theo van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogue
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