Theo van Doesburg Works Online
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Original works by Theo van Doesburg available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
21 works online when last checked
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Composition in Gray (Rag-time), 1919
Counter-Composition XIII, 1925-26
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Girl with Ranunculuses
Centraal Museum Database, Utrecht, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Many works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
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
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Composition
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands
2 works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Theo van Doesburg 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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
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Theo van Doesburg: Oeuvre Catalogue
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