LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

overall size: 68.5 x 53cm.

Markings:

signed P.M. and dated 27 (lower left); signed P. Mondrian on a piece of the original stretcher affixed to the stretcher and inscribed Haut N: II on the original turnover edge

Exhibited:

Paris, De Klomp, Mondrian, 1927 Paris, Librairie de l’Esthétique, Mondrian, 1927; Kassel, Museum Fredericianum, Dokumenta II, Kunst nach 1945, 1959; Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Mondrian, 1964-65, no. 47; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Piet Mondrian 1872-1944, Centennial Exhibition, 1971, no. 101, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Piet Mondrian, 1972, no. 93, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Mondrian / De Stijl, 2010-11, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature:

‘Evsi Model. Boutique, Boulevard du Montparnasse, à Paris, 1926’, in L’Architecture vivante, Autumn & Winter 1927, illustrated in a photograph pl. 45 Maria. G. Ottolenghi, L’opera completa di Piet Mondrian, Milan, 1974, no. 379, illustrated p. 111; Joop M. Joosten & Robert P. Welsh, Mondrian, Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1998, vol. II, no. B195, illustrated p. 336

Provenance:

Harry Holtzman, New York (the artist's estate; acquired in 1944) Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired circa 1958); Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1958); Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1959