LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Red and Blue, oil on canvas
Size Notes:
19.75 x 14 in. (50.5 x 35.2 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
Paris, De Klomp, March 1927. (probably) Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and The Hague, Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Expositions slectes d'art contemporain, October 1929-January 1930, no. 51 (titled Composition II). Essen, Museum Folkwang zum Gru, Dem wiedererffneten, May-July 1960 (titled Komposition 1927). London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Configuration: 1910-1940, and Seven Tatlin Reconstructions, July-September 1981, p. 50, no. 50 (illustrated in color, p. 51; illustrated again in color on the cover; titled Composition). Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Kosmische Bilder in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, November 1983-January 1984, p. 37, no. 18 (illustated, fig. 5; titled Komposition, 1927). Nagoya, City Art Museum, Perspective of 20th Century Paintings, April-June 1988, p. 110, no. 61 (illustrated in color; titled Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue).
Literature:
Galerie Nathan, ed., Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan: 25 Jahre, 1934-1961, Zrich, 1961, p. 69 (illustrated; titled Komposition). L.J.F. Wijsenbeek, Piet Mondrian, Recklinghausen, 1968, no. 105 (illustrated, p. 128). J.M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonn of the Work of 1911-1944, New York, 1998, vol. II, pp. 197 and 336-337, no. B196 (illustrated, p. 336). E. de Visser and W. Coppes, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonn (www.catalogue.pietmondrian.nl), no. B196 (illustrated in color).
Provenance:
Private collection, The Netherlands. Sam van Deventer, The Hague. Galerie Grosshennig, Dsseldorf. Galerie Nathan, Zrich; Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zrich and Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (acquired from the above, 1959). Prof. Hugo Krayenbhl, Zollikon (acquired from the above, 1959); sale, Christie's, New York, 19 May 1981, lot 350. Ivor Braka, London (1981). Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, May 1987). Private collection, Nagoya (acquired from the above, 15 July 1987). Citibank, Geneva; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1993, lot 32. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.