Property of a EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944)

Details
PIET MONDRIAN (1872-1944)

Composition avec bleu, rouge et jaune

signed with initials and dated bottom center PM '30--signed again on the cross-brace P MONDRIAN--oil on canvas
28½ x 21¼ in. (72 x 54 cm.)

Painted in 1930
Provenance
Jean Arp, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Sidney Janis, New York (1950)

Literature
Collection de M. et Mme. William A Burden, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1961, no. 16 (illustrated)
M. Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, Life and Work, New York, 1956, p. 429, no. 522
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Art Concret, 1945, no. 30 (illustrated)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Piet Mondrian, Feb.-March, 1951, no. 25 (illustrated)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selected Works from Two Generations of European and American Artists, Picasso to Pollack, 1967 (illustrated)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 20th Century Masters, 1975 (illustrated)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, European Masters, 1976-1977 (illustrated)
Paris, Grand Palais, Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, 1978 New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Masters in 20th Century Art, 1979 (illustrated)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Mondrian, an Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1900-1944, 1980, no. 15 (illustrated)
La Jolla, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seven Decades of Twentieth-Century Art, 1980, no. 20, p. 89 (illustrated in color, p. 33). The exhibition traveled to Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, June-Aug., 1980.
Paris, Grand Palais, Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, 1980 New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Brancusi and Mondrian, 1982, no. 27 (illustrated in color)
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Piet Mondrian, Oleos, Acuarelas y Dibujos, May-June, 1981, no. 57 (illustrated in color)
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Mondrian in the Sidney Janis Family Collections, Feb.-May, 1988, no. 58 (illustrated in color, p. 62)