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Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray
Piet Mondrian · 1921
Provenance
Ownership history
- Consigned to Galerie de “L’Effort Moderne” (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris, 1921-22. Jakob von Domselaer and Maaike von Domselaer-Middelkoop, Bergen, the Netherlands, 1922(?)-1940/45. John Rädecker, Groet, the Netherlands, 1940/45-c. 1948. John L. Senior, Jr., New York, by 1949-1956 [letter from Sidney Janis Gallery in curatorial file]. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1956. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., New York, March 1, 1957; given to the Art Institute, 1957.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Abstract Art: Gabo Pevsner Mondrian Domela, 1935.
- Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Piet Mondrian, November-December 1946, no. 110; traveled to Basel, Kunsthalle, February 6-March 2, 1947, no. 13.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Selections from Five New York Private Collections, Summer 1951.
- New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Piet Mondrian, February 5-March 17, 1951, no. 21.
- Chicago, Art Institute, Mondrian: The Process Works, October 3-November 8, 1970, no. 5.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Mondrian: The Diamond Compositions, July 1-September 16, 1979, no.5.
- Haags, Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondrian, December 18, 1994-April 30, 1995; traveled to Washington, National Gallery of Art, June 11-September 4, 1995, and New York, Museum of Modern Art, October 1, 1995-January 23, 1996, cat. no. 95 (ill.).
- Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918–1939, April 17–June 27, 2004.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris, September 20, 2008–January 4, 2009.
- Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'art moderne, Mondrian, December 1, 2010–March 21, 2011, p. 223.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, October 29, 2017–January 15, 2018, cat. 540.
- Art Institute of Chicago, André Kertész: Postcards from Paris, Oct. 2, 2021–Jan. 17, 2022, not in cat.; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Feb. 18–May 29, 2022 (Chicago only).
Literature
Published references
- Henry McBride, “Rockefeller, Whitney, Senior, Odets, Colin,” Art News 50 (June/August 1951), 34 ff. (ill.).
- Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work (New York, 1956), p. 392, no. 400.
- Ottavio Morisani, L’Abstrattismo die Piet Mondrian (Venice, 1956), no. 66.
- The Art Institute, Paintings of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), pp. 317, 342 (ill.).
- Carlo L. Ragghianti, Mondrian e l’arte del XX secolo (Milan, 1962), 334, no. 568.
- El Mundo de Los Museos, Instituto de Arte de Chicago (Madrid, 1967), 79 (ill.).
- L’Opera completa di Mondrian, Classici dell’Arte 77 (Milan, 1974), 108, no. 336.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 58, no. 3A6.
- Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture (Part I) (New York: Christie's, Tuesday, May 15, 1990), 152.
- John Milner, Piet Mondrian (London, 1992), 164-165 (ill.).
- Carel Blotkamp, Mondrian: The Art of Destruction (London, 1994), pl. 131.
- James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago, 1996), 49 (ill.).
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