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Composition With Red, Yellow And Blue by Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian

Composition With Red, Yellow And Blue, 1927

Oil on canvas in the artist's original frame
37.8 x 35 cm (14.88 x 13.78 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, London (19 Jun 2013)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jun 19, 2013
Sotheby'sLondonImpressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale36
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Composition With Red, Yellow And Blue
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

37.8 x 35 cm (14.88 x 13.78 in)

Materials

oil on canvas in the artist's original frame

Signature

signed with the initials PM and dated ‘27 (lower right); signed P. Mondrian on the stretcher and inscribed Haut on the canvas turnover

Provenance

Werner M. Moser & Silva Moser-Schindler, Zurich (acquired in 1929)

Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above. Sold: Christie's, London, 2nd April 1990, lot 37)

Annely Juda Fine Art, London (purchased at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1999

Exhibited

Paris, De Klomp, Mondrian, 1927 (possibly) Frankfurt, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Der Stuhl, 1929 Basel, Kunsthalle, Konstruktivisten, 1937, no. 56 (titled Composition) Basel, Kunsthalle, Konkrete Kunst, 1944, no. 170 (titled Composition) Zurich, Kunsthaus, Piet Mondrian, 1955, no. 93 (titled Composition) Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Mondrian, 1969, no. 82 (titled Composition) Strasbourg, Ancienne Douane, L’Art en Europe autour de 1925, 1970, no. 150 (titled Composition) Bern, Kunstmuseum, Piet Mondrian, 1972, no. 95, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Komposition) London, Waddington Galleries, Abstraction, 1991 New York, Pace Wildenstein, Mondrian/Reinhardt: Influence and Affinity, 1997, no. 25, illustrated in colour in the catalogue London, Annely Juda Fine Art, The Thirties: Influences on Abstract Art in Britain, 1998, no. 34, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work, New York, 1956, no. 500, fig. 365, illustrated p. 389 (titled Komposition); Alfred Roth, Begegnungen mit Pionieren. Le Corbusier. Piet Mondrian. Adolf Loos. Josef Hoffmann. August Perret. Henry van de Velde, Basel, 1973, no. 160, p. 150; Cor Blok, Piet Mondriaan, Een catalogus van zijn werk in Nederlands openbaar bezit, Amsterdam, 1974, p. 66; Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, L’opera complete di Mondrian, Milan, 1974, no. 371, illustrated p. 111 (titled Composizione); Jean Guiraud, ‘Etudes sur Mondrian’, in La Part de l’Œil, no. 2, Paris, 1986, illustrated p. 62; Jacques Meuris, Piet Mondrian, Paris, 1991, no. 222, illustrated in colour p. 164; John Milner, Mondrian, London, 1992, no. 139, illustrated in colour p. 180; Joop M. Joosten & Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian, Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1998, vol. II, no. B187, illustrated p. 331; illustrated in colour p. 61