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    Study for a Composition
    Piet Mondrian. Study for a Composition, 1940–41. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005686

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    Study for a Composition

    by Piet Mondrian

    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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