Piet Mondriaan

Illustration number 0001326441
Dimensions: 5518x5460 pixels
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Illustration number 1001243367
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Object information

Object category

painting

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

2nd state

Piet Mondriaan, Place de la Concorde (1st state)

Support/medium

canvas, oil paint
relined; original stretcher lost (Welsh/Joosten 1998)

Shape/dimensions

square 94 x 94.4 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

monogrammed lower left: PM
in red on black line
dated lower right: 38 | 43
in red on black line
signed and dated in verso: PIET MONDRIAN '38-43
according to Welsh/Joosten 1998, '-43' is added to the earlier inscription 'PIET MONDRIAN '38'
annotation in verso: PLACE DE LA CONCORDE

Current attribution: Piet Mondriaan

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1938-1943 (1938 - 1943)

Mondrian created this painting in 1938 (first state) but made considerable changes to it in 1943 (second state)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Place de la Concorde
English title: Place de la Concorde
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: abstraction, cityscape
Depicted place In the case of topographical representations, i.e. identified exteriors or interiors, the location depicted is noted in this field: Paris

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Piet Mondrian estate (Harry Holtzman), New York City
1944 - 1950
art dealer Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City
1950 - 1964
private collection James H. and Lillian Clark, Dallas (Texas)
1964 - 1982
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (Texas) , inv./cat.nr 1982.22 FA
gift of the James H. and Lillian Clark Foundation
Foundation for the Arts Collection
1982 -

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Maria : new sculptures, and mondrian : new paintings Valentine Gallery , New York City , 1943-03-22 - 1943-04-30 , no. 2, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Art of our time : dominant international trends : tenth anniversary exhibition San Francisco Museum of Art , San Francisco , 1945-01-18 - 1945-02-05 , no. 31, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Commonwealth of painting : international aspects of gothic, renaissance, baroque and modern pictures Addison Gallery of American Art , Andover (Massachusetts) , 1946-01-11 - 1946-02-11 , no. 32, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Piet Mondrian [New York, 1951] Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1951-02-05 - 1951-03-17 , no. 32, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Arp & Mondrian Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1960-01-25 - 1960-03-05 , no. 36, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Paintings by Mondrian : early & late & work in process Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1962-01-02 - 1962-02-04 , no. 22, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
An exhibition of paintings, drawings and watercolors by Piet Mondrian Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1963-11-04 - 1963-11-30 , no. 34, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
150 jaar Nederlandse kunst : schilderijen, beelden, tekeningen, grafiek 1813-1963 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1963-07-06 - 1963-09-29 , no. 187, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
The classic spirit in 20th century art Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1964-02-04 - 1064-02-29 , no. 13, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 [Santa Barbara, 1965] Santa Barbara Museum of Art , Santa Barbara (California) , 1965-01-09 - 1965-02-21 , no. 68, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Piet Mondrian 1872-1944 Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas (Texas) , 1965-03-17 - 1965-04-18 , no. 68, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Geometric abstraction: 1926-1942 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts , Dallas (Texas) , 1972-10-07 - 1972-11-19 , no. 40, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Impressionist and modern masters in Dallas : Monet to Mondrian Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas (Texas) , 1989-09-03 - 1989-10-22 , no. 70, listed as 'Place de la Concorde'
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 [Den Haag, 1994] Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , The Hague (city) , 1994-12-18 - 1995-04-30 , no. 156
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 National Gallery of Art [Washington] , Washington (D.C.) , 1995-06-11 - 1995-09-04 , no. 156, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 Museum of Modern Art , New York City , 1995-10-01 - 1996-01-23 , no. 156, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Mondrian : the transatlantic paintings Harvard University Art Museums , Cambridge (Massachusetts) , 2001-04-28 - 2001-07-22 , no. 16, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-43'
Mondrian : the transatlantic paintings Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas (Texas) , 2001-08-19 - 2001-11-25 , no. 16, listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-43'

Literature

Seuphor 1956 , 570 (602), no. 419 , listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-43'
Albertini Ottolenghi 1974 , no. 462 , listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-43'
Dijkhuis/De Vreede/Jonker 1994 , p. 47 , listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Welsh/Joosten 1998 , p. 417, B283.321 , listed as 'Composition. 1938 / Place de la Concorde. 1938-43, 1938/1943 (Second State)
Cooper/Spronk 2001 , p. 82, 83, 103
Van Bommel/Janssen/Spronk 2011 , p. 226 , listed as 'Place de la Concorde, (1938-43)'
Otte et al. 2015 , p. 264 , listed as 'Compositie, 1938, Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
Wieczorek et al. 2016 , p. 24 , listed as 'Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'
De Jong et al. 2017 , p. 212 , listed as 'Compositie, 1938, Place de la Concorde, 1938-1943'

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

ARC/Archive Henkels, Herbert (img.nr. 0001326441)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001243367)

Project: Piet Mondrian: digital catalogue raisonné

Technical documentation

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exhibition Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings, 2001, 2001 6 hits

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