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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection | 6 | $****** - ****** | Composition No. III, with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Black, 1929 |
paintings
61 x 61 cm (24.02 x 24.02 in)
oil on canvas in the artist's painted frame
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)
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
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)
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)
