Piet Mondriaan

Illustration number 1001195603
Dimensions: 519x650 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
severely damaged during World War II; relined (Welsh/Joosten 1998)
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 75 x 60.5 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 left: 37 P | M
in red on black lines
annotation in verso: PIET MONDRIAN

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 1937 (1937)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc: II
English title: Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc: II
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: abstraction

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Ben Nicholson, London (England)
in consignment
1938 - 1940
private collection Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, London (England)
gift of the artist
1940 - 1958
art dealer Gimpel Fils Gallery Ltd., London (England)
1958 -
private collection E.J. Power, London (England)
1963 c. 1963
Galerie Tarica, Paris
1973 c. 1973
Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), Paris , inv./cat.nr AM 1975-53 P
1975 -

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Origines et développement de l'art international indépendant [Parijs, 1937] Musée du Jeu de Paume , Paris , 1937-07-30 - 1937-10-31 , no. 141, listed as 'Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc, 1937'
Tentoonstelling abstracte kunst Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1938-04-02 - 1938-04-24 , no. 52, listed as 'Compositie in blauw, rood en wit'
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 : catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of paintings Whitechapel Art Gallery , London (England) , 1955-08 - 1955-09 , no. 50, listed as 'Composition No. 2 in Red, Blue and White, 1937'
Private Views: works from the collections of Twenty Friends of The Tate Gallery Tate Gallery London , London (England) , 1963-04-18 - 1963-05-19 , no. 161, listed as 'Composition No. 2, with Red and Blue, 1937'
Paris 1937, 1957 Paris : créations en France [Parijs, 1981] Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris , 1981-05-28 - 1981-11-02, listed as 'Composition 2, 1937'
Mondrian / De Stijl Centre Pompidou , Paris , 2010-12-01 - 2011-03-21 , p. 263, listed as 'Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc: II, 1937'
Mondrian - Nicholson : in parallel Courtauld Gallery , London (England) , 2012-02-26 - 2012-05-20 , no. 12, listed as 'Composition in Red, Blue and White: II, 1937'
Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin Kunstmuseum Basel , Basel (Switzerland) , 2013-09-08 - 2014-01-19 , no. 13, listed as 'Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc: II, 1937'

Literature

Seuphor 1956 , 563 (595), no. 394 , listed as 'Composition 2 avec rouge et bleu / Composition No. 2 with Red and Blue, 1937'
Albertini Ottolenghi 1974 , no. 439 , listed as 'Composizione con rosso e blu, 1937'
Welsh/Joosten 1998 , p. 390-391, B272 , listed as 'Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc: II, 1937'

archiefreferentie: Bergman 0662.32 (large album)

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Visual documentation

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BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001195603)

Project: Piet Mondrian: digital catalogue raisonné

Technical documentation

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normal light studies

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Creation date: 2014-03-31; Last modified date: 2022-09-14

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