Rainbow (prismatic) [Regenbogen (prismatisch)]

Provenance

The artist, Berlin and later London; by descent to his daughter, Marianne Segal (1908–1988), London, 1944 [Ubu Gallery factsheet, copy in curatorial object file]. Julius Levy (1913–2006), New York, by 1987 [Cologne 1987]; by descent to his son, Fred Levy [email correspondence with Adam Boxer, Aug. 8, 2025, copy in curatorial object file]; sold, Litchfield County Auctions, May 2, 2007, lot 807245, to Ubu Gallery, New York [email correspondence with Litchfield County Auctions, Sep. 19, 2025, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Richard Roth, New York, Nov. 6, 2015 [purchase agreement, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 10, 2017.

Rainbow (prismatic) [Regenbogen (prismatisch)]

Arthur Segal

1924

Accession Number

229824

Medium

Oil on canvas (burlap) with painted wood frame

Dimensions

105.4 × 85.7 cm (41 1/2 × 33 3/4 in.)

Classification

painting

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Roth