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Composition: No. II, With Yellow, Red and Blue by Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian

Composition: No. II, With Yellow, Red and Blue, 1927

Oil on canvas
50.2 x 35.6 cm (19.75 x 14 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (13 May 2021)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 13, 2021
Christie'sNew York20th Century Evening Sale19B
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Composition: No. II, With Yellow, Red and Blue
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

50.2 x 35.6 cm (19.75 x 14 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Provenance

Private collection, The Netherlands.

Sam van Deventer, The Hague.

Galerie Grosshennig, Düsseldorf.

Galerie Nathan, Zürich, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zürich and Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (acquired from the above, 1959).

Prof. Hugo Krayenbühl, 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.

Exhibited

Paris, De Klomp, March 1927.

(probably) Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and The Hague, Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Expositions sélectes d'art contemporain, October 1929-January 1930, no. 51 (titled Composition II).

Essen, Museum Folkwang zum Gruß, Dem wiedereröffneten, 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, Zürich, 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 Raisonné 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 Raisonné (www.catalogue.pietmondrian.nl), no. B196 (illustrated in color).