oil on canvas, inscribed by Nelly van Doesburg 'Voor Theo van Doesburg 1915-'16 Nelly (Petro) van Doesburg' on the stretcher, 19,5 x 11,5 cm.

Provenance: Nelly van Doesburg, from whom acquired by Aldo and Hannie van Eyck in 1951; Exhibited: Paris, Parc des Expositions, "1940" Deuxième exposition (retrospective Van Doesburg), 15 January-1 February 1932, p. 5, no. 33? (as Portrait); Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Theo van Doesburg, 3 December 1968-26 January 1969, cat.no. A11 (as Compositie/'Zelfportret', 1917) (this exhibition travelled to The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, 7 February-23 March 1969 and Basel, Kunsthalle, 9 August-7 September 1969); Literature: Sergio Polano ed., Theo van Doesburg: Scritti di arte e di architettura, Rome, 1979, p. 527, cat.no. PITT 116, fig. 69 (illustrated in b/w, as 'Composizione/'Autoritratto'); Els Hoek ed., Theo van Doesburg Oeuvre Catalogus, Utrecht/Otterlo 2000, p. 526, no. 849 (illustrated in colour)