{"product_id":"sophie_taeuber_arp__aubette_113","title":"Aubette 113 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1927","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAubette 113 by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1927\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFramed Canvas Art\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis preparatory design study for the Aubette entertainment complex in Strasbourg presents a \u003cstrong\u003edramatically foreshortened architectural interior rendered in a strict diagonal axis\u003c\/strong\u003e, the composition advancing from lower-left to upper-right across a warm ochre ground. Taeuber-Arp deploys a precise vocabulary of \u003cstrong\u003ewhite, navy blue, charcoal gray, and near-black bands\u003c\/strong\u003e within a receding rectangular corridor, the forms stepping and interlocking in a checkerboard rhythm that animates the flat surface with implied spatial depth. The ochre field — neither gold nor tan but a specific, dusty amber — reads simultaneously as wall, floor, and infinite ground, allowing the \u003cstrong\u003ediagonal grid of the interior scheme\u003c\/strong\u003e to hover in a kind of measured tension between two-dimensional pattern and three-dimensional illusion. Small brown diamond accents punctuate the corners of the composition, a signature Taeuber-Arp device that frames the central architectural thrust without interrupting it. The work belongs firmly to \u003cem\u003eConcrete Art\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eDe Stijl\u003c\/em\u003e-adjacent tradition, yet the diagonal orientation and the volumetric implication of the corridor set it apart from the strictly vertical-horizontal orthodoxy of Mondrian; Taeuber-Arp was always the more spatially inventive practitioner of the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1926 and 1928, Sophie Taeuber-Arp collaborated with her husband Jean Arp and the \u003cem\u003eDe Stijl\u003c\/em\u003e architect Theo van Doesburg on the interior decoration of the Aubette, an eighteenth-century building in the heart of Strasbourg that was being converted into a cinema-ballroom and café complex. The project was among the most ambitious attempts to realize a total \u003cem\u003eGesamtkunstwerk\u003c\/em\u003e in the \u003cem\u003eConstructivist\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConcrete Art\u003c\/em\u003e idiom; every surface — ceilings, walls, floors — was to be integrated into a single coherent color-and-form system. Taeuber-Arp was responsible for several rooms, and the numbered study series to which this work belongs documents her methodical translation of abstract principle into architectural scale. Van Doesburg famously insisted on orthogonal compositions for the shared spaces; Taeuber-Arp's decision to introduce the diagonal in her own rooms was an act of quiet but deliberate independence, and it is now regarded as one of the most sophisticated moves in the entire project. The Aubette interiors were painted over within a decade of completion and remained lost until a partial restoration began in the 1980s; the preparatory studies on paper and board therefore carry exceptional documentary and art-historical weight, preserving intentions that the built surfaces could not. This study is held in institutional collections and has been exhibited in major retrospectives of \u003cem\u003eearly twentieth-century abstraction\u003c\/em\u003e, including surveys at the Museum of Modern Art and the Kunstmuseum Basel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur archival giclee process on museum-grade cotton canvas is particularly well-suited to a work whose authority rests on the precision of its geometry and the exactness of its color relationships. The subtle gradation between the \u003cstrong\u003ewarm ochre ground and the cooler gray verticals\u003c\/strong\u003e along the corridor edges — a transition that cheap poster reproductions collapse into a single flat tone — is preserved through our 12-color pigment inkset, which resolves the distinct steps in value across those intermediate passages. The \u003cstrong\u003ecrisp boundary between the navy blue bands and the white intervals\u003c\/strong\u003e at the center of the composition, a hard edge that reads as both architectural line and graphic pattern, retains its intended sharpness at every offered size. Our source files are derived from high-resolution museum scans that have been digitally restored to correct the color shift and surface noise common in degraded reproductions of this work, recovering the specific amber saturation of the ochre ground that secondary prints routinely muddy. The ornate composite frame, finished in a warm antiqued gold, echoes the ochre and brown tones of the painted field while providing the visual boundary that Taeuber-Arp's own small diamond corner marks suggest the composition requires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CanvasClassics","offers":[{"title":"Small (19 x 19) \/ Gold","offer_id":48990346346731,"sku":"1890111","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small (19 x 19) \/ Silver","offer_id":48990346379499,"sku":"1890112","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small (19 x 19) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":48990346412267,"sku":"1890113","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (29 x 28) \/ Gold","offer_id":48990346445035,"sku":"1890121","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (29 x 28) \/ Silver","offer_id":48990346477803,"sku":"1890122","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium (29 x 28) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":48990346510571,"sku":"1890123","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (32 x 31) \/ Gold","offer_id":48990346543339,"sku":"1890131","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (32 x 31) \/ Silver","offer_id":48990346576107,"sku":"1890132","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large (32 x 31) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":48990346608875,"sku":"1890133","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (41 x 40) \/ Gold","offer_id":48990346641643,"sku":"1890141","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (41 x 40) \/ Silver","offer_id":48990346674411,"sku":"1890142","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate (41 x 40) \/ Dark Bronze","offer_id":48990346707179,"sku":"1890143","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8606\/6923\/files\/sophie_taeuber_arp__aubette_113__small__gold.jpg?v=1783287121","url":"https:\/\/canvasclassics.shop\/products\/sophie_taeuber_arp__aubette_113","provider":"Canvas Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}