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Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red
Piet Mondrian · 1935
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist to Elizabeth Goodspeed, Chicago, Jan. 1936 [conversation between Elizabeth Chapman (previously Goodspeed) and Courtney Donnell, Oct. 1977; notes in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Hartford, Abstract Art, 1935, no. 12
- Chicago, Abstract Art, 1936, no II.
- Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4–25, 1938.
- Milwaukee, Art Institute, Industrial Designs by Brooks Stevens, February–May, 1950.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Mondrian The Process Works, October 3–November 8, 1970.
- New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mondrian Retrospective, October 7–December 12, 1971.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Post-Mondrian Abstraction in America, March 31–May 13, 1973.
- The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondrian, 1872–1944, December 18–April 20, 1995; traveled to Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, June 11–September 4, 1995; New York, Museum of Modern Art, October 1–January 23, 1996.
- Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, July 10–Oct. 31, 2022, cat. cat. 19.
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- A. E. Gallatin Collection (1954), p. 154 (ill.).
- Morisani, Mondrian (1956), p. 68 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 317.
- Ragghianti, Mondrian (1962), pp. 369, 754 (ill.).
- Apollonio, Mondrian (1965), pl. XIV.
- Dunlop, Mondrian (1967), pl. XIV
- Busignani, Mondrian (1968), pl. 68
- Elgar, Mondrian (1968), pp. 13, 152 (ill.).
- Butor, “Notes autour de Mondrian,” (1976), p. 7.
- Welsh, “The Place of Composition 12,” (1978), pp. 25 (ill.), 26–27.
- Weyergraf, Mondrian und Van Doesburg (1979), p. 33.
- Meuris, Mondrian (1991), pp. 185, 248 (ill.).
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