LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas in the artist's painted frame

Size Notes:

artist's frame; 50 x 50.2 cm

Markings:

signed with initials and dated 'PM 29' (lower right); signed again 'P MONDRIAN' (on the stretcher); inscribed 'HAUT N: III' (on the reverse of the artist's frame)

Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Expositions Sélectes d'Art Contemporain , October 1929, no. 52. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Architectuur Schilderwerk Beeldhouwwerk, 2e Tentoonstelling , November-December 1929, p. 7, no. 3. The Hague, Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Expositions Sélectes d'Art Contemporain , December 1929-January 1930, no. 52. Kunsthaus, Zürich, Piet Mondrian , May-July 1955, p. 53, no. 97 (illustrated). Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Delaunay-Mondrian , April-May 1977, no. 10 (illustrated in color). The Hague, Gemeentemuseum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Piet Mondrian , December 1994-January 1996, p. 235, no. 121 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

A.M. Hammacher, "Pulchri Studio, Hedendaagsche Parijsche Schilderkunst (Expositions sélectes d'art contemporain)" in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant , December 1929, p. 2. Abstraction-Création , Paris, 1932, no. 1, p. 25 (illustrated). P. Fierens, L'art hollandais contemporain , Paris, 1933, p. 51 (illustrated). P. Mondrian, Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art , New York, 1945, p. 12 (illustrated). M. Seuphor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work , New York, 1956, p. 429, no. 513 (illustrated, pp. 280 and 387, no. 346). C.L. Ragghianti, Mondrian , Milan, 1962, p. 307, nos. 338 and 375 (illustrated, p. 542). F. Elgar, Mondrian , New York, 1968, p. 138, no. 128 (illustrated). M.G. Ottolenghi, L'opera completa di Mondrian , Milan, 1974, p. 112, no. 391 (illustrated). M. Butor, "Notes autour de Mondrian" in Tout l’œuvre peint de Piet Mondrian , Paris, 1976, p. 7. J. Guiraud, Etudes sur Mondrian , Paris, 1986, pp. 58-59 (illustrated, p. 57). J. M. Joosten, "De sporen van het penseel: Textuur in het werk van Mondriaan" in Jong Holland , December 1993, pp. 45 and 47-48. J.M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944 , Amsterdam, 1998, vol. II, p. 347, no. B213 (illustrated). A. Butterfield, The Jacques Koerfer Collection, London, 1999, p. 109 (illustrated in color, p. 81). M. Bax, Complete Mondrian , Aldershot, 2001, p. 523 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Michel Seuphor, Paris (gift from the artist, circa 1930). Alberto Sartoris, Geneva. Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel ( circa 1950). Théodore Bally, Montreux (acquired from the above, circa 1950). Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, 1971); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 9. Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale). Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009