Study for a Composition

1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• 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.

• 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.).

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