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PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944)

Lot 14
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ID 1492528
Lot 14 | PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944)
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$ 20 000 000 – 30 000 000
PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944)
Composition with Red and Blue
signed with initials and dated 'PM 39-41' (lower center); inscribed 'of red, blue and white.' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
17 1/8 x 13 in. (43.5 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1939-1941




Provenance

Celeste and Armand P. Bartos, New York (acquired from the artist, 1941); sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1983, lot 12.
Private collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 18 December 1998.



Literature

Letter from P. Mondrian to H. Holtzman, 3 April 1941.
Letter from P. Mondrian to H. Holtzman, 15 April 1941.
Letter from P. Mondrian to H. Holtzman, 26 April 1941.
Letter from P. Mondrian to H. Holtzman, 30 April 1941.
Letter from P. Mondrian to H. Holtzman, 6 May 1941.
M. Seuphor, "Humanisme de Mondrian" in Aujourd'hui: Art et architecture, vol. 1, no. 2, March-April 1955, p. 8 (illustrated, p. 9).
M. Seuphor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work, Amsterdam, 1956, p. 431, no. 575.
F. Elgar, Mondrian, 1968, New York, pp. 194 and 248, no. 181 (illustrated, p. 194).
R. Hughes, "Pursuit of the Square" in Time, 8 November 1971, vol. 98, no. 19, pp. 88 and 90 (illustrated in color, p. 90).
M.G. Ottolenghi, L'opera completa di Mondrian, Milan, 1974, p. 115, no. 446 (illustrated).
V.P. Rembert, Mondrian in America, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1970, pp. 304 and 314.
E.A.T. Smith, intro., The Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1991 (first state illustrated in situ in the 1939 exhibition at Galerie Charpentier).
J.M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944, Antwerp, 1998, pp. 401 and 407, no. B293.304 (first state illustrated, p. 401; final state illustrated, p. 407).
H. Cooper and R. Spronk, Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 110-113, no. 1 (final state illustrated in color, p. 111; first state illustrated in situ in the 1939 exhibition at Galerie Charpentier, Paris, pp. 112-113).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Réalités nouvelles: L'art inobjectif depuis 1910, June-July 1939.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Piet Mondrian: Centennial Exhibition, October-December 1971, p. 207, no. 125 (illustrated).
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. 282, no. 157 (illustrated in color; titled Composition of Red, Blue and White).
London, Tate Gallery, Mondrian: Nature to Abstraction, July-November 1997, p. 106, no. 69 (illustrated in color, p. 102; dated 1939 and titled Composition of Red, Blue and White).
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