Dmitry Wiener
'Variations Harmoniques sur le Dodecaedre', 1928
Oil on canvas
29 x 18.5 inches
Signed and dated
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Provenance
Tadema Gallery, London; Private collection
Note: Wiener was involved with the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier during the 1920s and illustrated Matila Ghyka's highly influential mathematical tract Le Nombre d'Or in 1927. Ghyka developed a personal philosophy in which all living things were endowed with an energy and functioned with a rhythm related to that of the golden ratio. The theory influenced many artists and architects associated with the modern movement.
Literature
Le Nombre d'Or, Matila C. Ghyka, 1927