Piet Mondriaan

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: oval 140 x 101 cm

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

monogrammed and dated lower right: '14 | PM
within the oval. According to Welsh/Joosten 1998, the signature and year seem to be of 1922.
inscription in verso: P. Mondriaan | Tableau III
According to a note made in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in 1955, the original stretcher bore this inscription (Welsh/Joosten 1998).
inscription : 338 HAUT
label in verso
XVI Biennale in Venice

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 1914 (1914)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Tableau III
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Composition in oval
English title: Tableau III
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: abstraction, composition

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

based on
Piet Mondriaan, Tableau III

Collection(s)

Private collection
committee consisting of P. Alma, S.B. Slijper, J. Steijling and W. Steenhoff; on loan to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam between 1922 and 1966
1922-10-13 - 1966 On April 20, 1922, on behalf of the admirers of Mondrian's work P. Alma offered the painting by letter to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as a gift. On April 21, also by letter, the director of the Rijksmuseum, F. Schmidt-Degener, let Alma know that the Rijksmuseum was not the proper place for modern art, and referred him to the Stedelijk Museum. On October 13, 1922, on behalf of the committee for the purchase of a work by Mondrian, Alma offered the painting by letter to the Stedelijk Museum, on loan, for a period of three years. On November 10, 1922, the city council of Amsterdam accepted the loan for a period of five years (Welsh/Joosten 1998).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr A 2459
gift of P. Alma, S.B. Slijper and J. Steijling on behalf of the above-mentioned committee
1966 -

Exhibitions

Hollandsche Kunstenaarskring : tentoonstelling 1922 te Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1922-03-04 - 1922-04-02 , no. 96, listed as 'Tableau III. (Ffr. 1200.-)'
Retrospectieve tentoonstelling van werken van Piet Mondriaan, ter eere van zijn vijftigsten verjaardag Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1922-03-04 - 1922-04-02 , no. 96, listed as 'Compositie. (Ffr. 1200.-)'
XVI Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della città di Venezia Palazzo dell'Esposizione , Venice , 1928-04 - 1928-10 , no. 34, listed as 'Composizione 1914'
Les premiers maîtres de l'art abstrait Galerie Maeght , Paris , 1949-04 - 1949-06-30 , no. 42, listed as 'Composition ovale, 1913'
Les grands courants de la peinture contemporaine (de Manet à nos jours) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon , Lyon , 1949-06 - 1949-07-31 , no. 81, listed as 'Composition No.3'
Quatrième salon de l'art mural Palais des Papes , Avignon , 1949-07-20 - 1949-08-15 , no. 37, listed as 'Composition'
Piet Mondrian [New York, 1951] Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1951-02-05 - 1951-03-17 , no. 13, listed as 'Large oval composition, 1914'
Pieter Mondrian [São Paulo] Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo , São Paulo , 1953-12-12 - 1954-02-12 , no. 10, listed as 'Composiçâo com cubismo oval, 1914'
Pintura contemporanea de los Paises Bajos Comision Nacional de Belas Artes , Montevideo (Uruguay) , 1954-03 - 1954-04 , no. 32, listed as 'Composición con cubismo oval, 1914'
Mondriaan Haags Gemeentemuseum , The Hague (city) , 1955-02-10 - 1955-04-12 , no. 87, listed as 'Compositie in ovaal (Tableau III), 1914'
Piet Mondrian Kunsthaus Zürich , Zürich (city) , 1955-05-22 - 1955-07-01 , no. 66, listed as 'komposition in oval'
XXVIII Biennale di Venezia Palazzo dell'Esposizione , Venice , 1956-06-16 - 1956-10-21 , no. 7, listed as 'Composizione, Quadro, N.3, 1914'
Piet Mondrian Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Rome) , Rome , 1956-11-27 - 1957-01-02 , no. 30, listed as 'Composizione in ovale (Quadro III), 1914'
Piet Mondrian Palazzo Reale (Milaan) , Milaan , 1957-01-15 - 1957-02-27 , no. 30, listed as 'Composizione in ovale (Quadro III), 1914'
Mondrian : l'organisation de l'espace Galerie Denise René , Paris , 1957-03-08 - 1957-04-07 , no. 8, listed as 'composition ovale, tableau III, 1914'
50 jaar moderne kunst Paleis voor Schone Kunsten , Brussels , 1958-04-17 - 1958-07-21, unlisted
50 jaar verkenningen : in de beeldende kunst uit de eigen verzameling en uit bevriende particuliere collecties in Nederland Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1959-07-04 - 1959-09-28 , no. 113, listed as 'compositie (tableau III), 1914'
Junge holländische Malerei Fränkische Galerie , Nuremberg , 1960-06 , no. 8, listed as 'Composition'
70 lat malrstwa holenderskiego Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie , Warsaw , 1960-04 - 1960-05 , no. 33, listed as 'Kompozyeja, 1914'
Les sources du XXe siècle : les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914 [Parijs, 1960] Musée National d'Art Moderne [Parijs] , Paris , 1960-11-04 - 1961-01-23 , no. 471, listed as 'Composition, 1914'
La peinture néerlandaise : entre les deux guerres [Grenoble] Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture , Grenoble , 1961-05-03 - 1961-06-11 , no. 16, listed as 'Composition cubiste, 1914'
La peinture néerlandaise : entre les deux guerres [Vichy] Centre Culturel Valery Larbaud , Vichy (France) , 1961-07-19 - 1961-08-01 , no. 16, listed as 'Composition cubiste, 1914'
Stedelijk Museum besøger Louisiana Louisiana Museum [Humlebaek] , Humlebæk (Hovedstaden) , 1961-10-28 - 1961-12-03 , no. 55, listed as 'Komposition, 1914'
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam besoker Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk) , Copenhagen , 1961-10-28 - 1961-12-03 , no. 7, listed as 'Komposition, 1914'
Mondrian Orangerie des Tuileries , Paris , 1969-01-18 - 1969-03-31 , no. 48, listed as 'Composition dans l'ovale (Tableau III), 1914'
Abstraction : towards a New Art : painting 1910-20 Tate Gallery London , London (England) , 1980-02-06 - 1980-04-13 , no. 77, listed as 'Composition No.3 (Oval Composition), 1914'
De Stijl : 1917-1931 : visions of Utopia [Minneapolis] Walker Art Center , Minneapolis (Minnesota) , 1982-01-31 - 1982-03-28 , no. 189, listed as 'Tableau III (Oval Composition)'
De Stijl : 1917-1931 : visions of Utopia [Washington D.C.] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Smithsonian Institution , Washington (D.C.) , 1982-04-20 - 1982-06-27 , no. 189, listed as 'Tableau III (Oval Composition)'
De Stijl : 1917-1931 : visions of Utopia [Amsterdam] Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1982-08-06 - 1982-10-04 , no. 262, listed as 'Tableau III (compositie in ovaal), 1914'
De Stijl : 1917-1931 : visions of Utopia [Otterlo] Kröller-Müller Museum , Otterlo , 1982-08-06 - 1982-10-04 , no. 262, listed as 'Tableau III (compositie in ovaal), 1914'
100 years of Dutch painting : highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Niigata] Niigata City Art Museum , Niigata (city) , 1985-10-13 - 1985-11-10 , no. 59, listed as 'Tableau III, Composition in oval, 1914'
100 years of Dutch painting : highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Iwaki] Iwaki , 1985-11-16 - 1985-12-22 , no. 59, listed as 'Tableau III, Composition in oval, 1914'
100 years of Dutch painting : highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Shimonoseki] Shimonoseki , 1986-01-01 - 1986-02-11 , no. 59, listed as 'Tableau III, Composition in oval, 1914'
100 years of Dutch painting : highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Amagasaki] Tsukashin-Hall , Hyogo (prefecture) , 1986-02-21 - 1986-03-23 , no. 59, listed as 'Tableau III, Composition in oval, 1914'
100 years of Dutch painting : highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Tokyo] Seibu Museum of Art , Tokyo (city) , 1986-02-21 - 1986-05-13 , no. 59, listed as 'Tableau III, Composition in oval, 1914'
La beauté exacte : de Van Gogh à Mondrian : art Pays-Bas XXe siècle Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris , 1994-03-25 - 1994-07-17 , no. 128, ill. on p. 123, listed as 'Tableau III : Composition ovale, 1914'
Flemish and Dutch painting : from Van Gogh, Ensor, Magritte and Mondrian to contemporary artists Palazzo Grassi , Venice , 1997-03-16 - 1997-07-13 , no. 89, listed as 'Tableau III (Oval Composition), 1914'
Mondrian de 1892 à 1914 : les chemins de l'abstraction Musée d'Orsay , Paris , 2002-03-25 - 2002-07-14 , no. 108
Mondrian 1892-1914 : the path to abstraction Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth (Texas) , 2002-08-18 - 2002-12-12 , no. 108, listed as 'Tableau III, 1914'
Piet Mondrian [Wenen, 2005] Albertina (Wenen) , Vienna (city) , 2005-03-11 - 2005-06-19 , no. 57, listed as 'Tableau III; Ovale Komposition, 1914'
Mondrian / De Stijl Centre Pompidou , Paris , 2010-12-01 - 2011-03-21 , p. 185, listed as 'Tableau III: Composition dans l'ovale, 1914'
Mondrian and his studios Tate Liverpool , Liverpool (England) , 2014-06-06 - 2014-10-05 , no. 16, listed as 'Tableau III: Composition in Oval, 1914'
Piet Mondriaan & Bart van der Leck : de uitvinding van een nieuwe kunst Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , The Hague (city) , 2017-02-11 - 2017-05-21 , no. 1, listed as 'Tableau III: compositie in ovaal, 1914'

Literature

Seuphor 1956 , 410 (434) / 275 , listed as 'Composition ovale (Tableau III) / Oval Composition (Tableau III), 1914'
Albertini Ottolenghi 1974 , no. 282 , listed as 'Composizione ovale ("Tableau" III), 114'
Blok 1974 , no. 239 , listed as 'Schilderij II (Ovale compositie) / Painting nr III (Oval composition), 1914'
Deicher/Doelman 1994 , p. 39 , listed as 'Tableau III, 1914'
Welsh/Joosten 1998 , p. 232-234, B49 , listed as 'Tableau III: Composition in Oval, 1914'
Otte et al. 2015 , p. 183 , listed as 'Tableau III, compositie in ovaal, 1914'
Janssen 2016A , p. 434 , listed as 'Tableau III; Compositie in ovaal, 1914'
De Jong et al. 2017 , p. 127 , listed as 'Tableau III, compositie in ovaal, 1914'

Correspondence: Letter to Sal Slijper, dated September 22, 1921
Letter to Theo van Doesburg, dated February 7, 1922
Letter to Sal Slijper, undated (February 1922)
Letter to Sal Slijper, dated 'Zaterdagavond' (March 11 or 18, 1922)
Letter to Sal Slijper, dated 'Zaterdag' (March 27, 1922)
Letter from Steijling to Oud, dated April 7, 1922
Letter from P. Alma To the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, dated April 20, 1922
Letter from F. Schmidt-Degener to P. Alma, dated April 21, 1922
Letter to Theo van Doesburg, undated (1922)
Letter to Sal Slijper, dated May 3, 1922
Letter to Oud, dated May 5, 1922
Letter to Theo van Doesburg, dated May 25, 1922
Letter from P. Alma to the mayor and aldermen of Amsterdam, dated October 13, 1922
Letter to Sal Slijper, dated October 26, 1922

Visual documentation

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BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001240224)

Project: Piet Mondrian: digital catalogue raisonné
Mondrian Edition project

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