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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 105 | $****** - ****** | Composition No. II |
paintings
51.1 x 51.1 cm (20.13 x 20.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed with the initials P M and dated 30 (lower left); signed P Mondrian , titled Composition en rouge, bleu et jaune and inscribed Haut and II (on the stretcher)
Otto Carlsund, Paris and Stockholm (on loan from the artist 1930-35)
The artist (until at least 1937)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired after 1937 and until circa 1949)
César Domela, Paris (acquired circa 1949)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired in 1950)
Mr. and Mrs. Armand P. Bartos, New York (acquired in 1950)
Christie's, London, 27 June 1983, lot 8 (consigned by the above)
Fukuoka City Bank, Fukuoka (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1995)
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie 23, Cercle et Carré , 1930, no. 70 (titled Composition néoplastique )
Stockholm, Stockholmsutställningen Parkrestauranten, Art Concret: Internationell Utställning , 1930, no. 59, p. 27, illustrated (titled Composition I )
Basel, Kunsthalle, Konstruktivisten , 1937, no. 59 (titled Composition )
Copenhagen, Den frie Udstillings Bygning, Liniens Sammenslutning. Efter-Expressionisme Abstrakt Kunst Neoplasticisme Surrealisme , 1937, no. 65, p. 31, illustrated (titled Composition en rouge, bleu et jaune )
New York, Rose Fried Gallery, Some Areas of Search from 1913 to 1951 , 1951
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 50 Years of Mondrian , 1953, no. 30 (titled Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow )
New York, The Museum of Modern Art at the Guest House of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Young Collectors , 1954, no. 29 (titled Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow )
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Piet Mondrian , 1955, no. 101, p. 55, illustrated (titled komposition mit rot, blau und gelb )
New York, World House Galleries, The Struggle for New Form , 1957, no. 57 (titled Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow )
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors by Piet Mondrian , 1963, no. 24, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Composition in Red, Blue & Yellow )
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Mondrian , 1969, no. 88, p. 129, illustrated (titled Composition avec rouge, jaune et bleu )
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Piet Mondrian 1872-1944. Centennial Exhibition , 1971, no. 108, p. 190, illustrated in color (titled Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow )
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Mondrian: An Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings 1900-1944 , 1980, no. 16, n.p., illustrated (titled Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow )
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Piet Mondrian , 1994-95, no. 125, p. 241, illustrated in color (titled Composition II; Composition I; Composition en Rouge, Bleu et Jaune (Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow) ) (exhibited in Washington D.C. only)
Tate Liverpool, Mondrian and His Studios, Colour in Space , 2014, no. 11, p. 27, illustrated in color (titled Composition No. II / Composition I / Composition en Rouge, Bleu et Jaune )
London, Tate Modern (on loan April 2015-May 2016)
Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, Life and Work , New York, 1957, no. 517, pl. 173, illustrated in color; classified catalogue no. 350, p. 387, illustrated (titled Composition avec rouge, bleu et jaune / Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow )
Sam Hunter, Mondrian , New York, 1958, pl. 11, illustrated in color (titled Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow )
Michel Butor, “Le Carré et son habitant,” Nouvelle Revue Française , no. 97, January 1961, pp. 122, 123 and 126
Carlo L. Ragghianti, Mondrian e l'arte dell XX secolo , Milan, 1962, illustrated in color p. 335
Exh. Cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 , 1966, p. 194
Alberto Busignani, Mondrian: The Life and Work of the Artist , New York, 1968, pl. 66-67, illustrated in color (titled Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow )
Frank Elgar, Mondrian , New York, 1968, no. 163, p. 173, illustrated in color (titled Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow )
H. H. Arnason, History of Modern Art , New York, 1968, pl. 182, illustrated in color
H. W. Jansen, History of Art , New York, 1969, pl. 78, illustrated in color
Hans L. C. Jaffé, Piet Mondrian , New York, 1970, p. 145, illustrated in color (titled Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow )
“Mondrian: Centennial of a Dutch Master,” Life , 19 November 1971, vol. 71, no. 21, p. 43, illustrated in color
Alfred Roth, Begegnungen mit Pionieren , Stuttgart, 1973, p. 157
Maria Grazia Ottolenghi , L'Opera completa di Mondrian , Milan, 1974, no. 396, p. 112, illustrated (titled Composizione con rosso, giallo e blu )
Kent Tiedeman, “Mondrian: The Flowering Apple Tree, 1912,” The Counterpoint to Likeness. Essays on Imitation and Imagination in Western Painting , Davis, California, 1977, p. 53, illustrated (titled Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow )
Karl Lunde, Anuszkiewicz , New York, 1977, pl. 46, p. 70, illustrated (titled Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue)
Kermit Swiler Champa, “Piet Mondrian's Painting Number II-Composition with Grey and Black," Arts Magazine, vol. 52, January 1978, illustrated p. 88
Oscar Reitersvärd, “Otto G. Carlsund och hans postkubistiska expo. Stockholmsutställningen 1930,” 1930/80. Architektur Form Konst , 1980, p. 55, illustrated in an installation photograph of the Paris, Galerie 23 exhibition Cercle et Carré in 1930
Kermit Swiler Champa, Mondrian Studies , Chicago and London, 1985, p. 110, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Early Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings by Piet Mondrian , 1985, n.p., illustrated in an installation photo of the 1963 Sidney Janis Mondrian exhibition
Exh. Cat. The Hague, Gemeentesmuseum Den Haag, Mondrian in the Sidney Janis Family Collections, New York , 1988, p. 22, illustrated in an installation photo of the 1963 Sidney Janis Mondrian exhibition
Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944 , vol. II, New York, 1998, no. B219, p. 352, illustrated (titled Composition No. II / Composition I // Composition en rouge, bleu et jaune )
Marty Bax, Complete Mondrian , Aldershot and Burlington, 2001, p. 324, illustrated (titled Composition No. II/Composition I/Composition e rouge, bleu et jaune )
Exh. Cat. The Hague, Gemeentesmuseum Den Haag, Mondrian: in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , 2008, p. 245, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, Mondrian/De Stijl , 2010-11, illustrated in an installation photograph of the Paris, Galerie 23 exhibition Cercle et Carré in 1930
Exh. Cat. The Hague, Gemeentesmuseum Den Haag, Alexander Calder-De grote ontdekking , 2012, pp. 54 and 130, illustrated in color (titled Composition No. II / Composition I // Composition en rouge, bleu et jaune )
Andrea Kollnitz, "Universal Language on National Ground-Otto G. Carlsund and Art Concret at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930," Avant-Garde Critical Studies , vol. 36, January 2019, p. 311, illustrated in an installation photograph
Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), eds., Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné , no. B219
Property of a Distinguished European Collector
Piet Mondrian
1872 - 1944
Composition No. II
signed with the initials P M and dated 30 (lower left); signed P Mondrian , titled Composition en rouge, bleu et jaune and inscribed Haut and II (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas in artist's frame
20 ⅛ by 20 ⅛ in. 51 by 51 cm. (canvas)
24 ¼ by 24 ¼ in. 61.5 by 61.6 cm. (including artist's frame)
Executed in 1930.
