LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas; in the artist’s frame

Measurements:

19.88 in. (50.50 cm.) (height) by 19.76 in. (50.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the initials and dated ‘PM 30’ (lower centre); signed and inscribed ‘HAUT Composition No. II P.MONDRIAN’ (on the frame)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, L’Art Vivant en Europe, April – May 1931, no. 383.Basel, Kunsthalle, Konstruktivisten, January – February 1937, no. 49.Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ausländische Kunst, July – September 1943, no. 611.Basel, Kunsthalle, Konkrete Kunst, March – April 1944, no. 173.The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Mondrian, February – April 1955, no. 117.Zurich, Kunsthaus, Mondrian, May – July 1955, no. 96 (illustrated p. 53). Zurich, Kunsthaus, on loan April - December 1982.The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondrian 1972-1944, December 1994 - April 1995, no. 129; this exhibition later travelled to Washington, National Gallery of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art.

Literature:

M. Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, Life and Work, New York, 1956, no. 514.C.L. Ragghianti, Mondrian e l’arte del XX Secolo, Milan, 1962, no. 338.C. Giedion-Welcker, Schriften 1926-1971, Stationen zu einem Zeitbild, Mit Briefen von Arp, Chillida, Ernst, Giacometti, Joyce, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Schwitters, Cologne, 1973, no. V (illustrated). A. Roth, Begegnungen mit Pionieren: Le Corbusier, Piet Mondrian, Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, Auguste Perret, Henry van de Velde, Basel, 1973, no. 35, pp. 160-161 (illustrated p. 161).M.G. Ottolenghi, L'opera completa di Mondrian, Milan, 1974, no. 394.J.M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian, Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944, vol. II, New York, 1998, no B 225, p. 357 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Private collection, Zurich, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1931, and thence by descent to the present owners.