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Study for a Composition
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to his friend, Harry Holtzman (1912-1987), New York; Harry Holtzman, to 1964 [according to Joosten 1998]. Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, by April 1964 [New York 1964 exh. cat.]; sold by Marlborough-Gerson Gallery to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., May 29, 1969; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Mondrian—De Stijl and Their Impact, Apr. 1965, cat. 26, as Collage Sketch, 1939-44, ill.. Kassel, Alte Galerie, Documenta III: International Ausstellung, June 27–Oct. 5, 1964, cat. Piet Mondrian 2, as Collage Sketch, 1939-44, ill.. Waltham, Mass., Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, 50 Drawings by 50 Modern Masters, Feb. 22–Apr.5,1970, as Collage Sketch, 1939-44. Wellesley. Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, Two Women Collect, Apr. 2–25, 1976. Wellesley. Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, One Century: Wellesley Families Collect, Apr. 15–May 30, 1978, cat. 100, as Collage Sketch, 1939-1944, ill.. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 26–Apr. 27, 1980. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Piet Mondrian: 1972-1944, Oct. 1995 –Jan. 1996, cat. 180, p. 306, ill., cat. by Yves-Alain Bois, et. al.; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C., June 11–Sept. 4, 1995. AIC, Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings from the Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection, June 11–Sept. 7, 1999. The Art Institute of Chicago, Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 152-153, cat. 106 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.
Publications
Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1956), pp. 394 and 431, no. 612, fig. 431. Virginia Pitts Rembert, Mondrian, America and American Painting, Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University, New York (1970), pp. 306, no. 18, p. 492, fig. 232 Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, L'opera completa di Mondrian (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1974), p. 116, no. 471 (ill.). Virginia Pitts Rembert, Mondrian, America and American Painting (New York, 1979), pp. 306 and 492, fig. 232. Robert Welsh, “Mondrian as Draftsman,” in Mondrian Zeichnungen (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1980), pp. 55-56, 57, and 60. Robert Welsh, “Mondrian dessinateur,” in Atelier de Mondrian: recherches et dessins (Paris: Macula, 1982), p. 24, fig. 17. Jacques Meuris, Piet Mondrian (Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Françaises, 1991), p. 179, fig. 237. Joop Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998), p. 431, no. B362 (ill.). Harry Cooper and Ron Spronk, Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings (New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press, 2001), p. 18 and 19, fig. 5. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 152-153, cat. 106 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Piet Mondrian / Dutch, 1872-1944
- Date
- 1940–41
- Medium
- Collage of cut and pasted papers, prepared with gouache and charcoal, on pieced cream wove newsprint in three parts with charcoal on verso
- Dimensions
- Max: 33 × 27 cm (13 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- collage
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.984
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