Composition in White, Red, and Yellow

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Composition in White, Red, and Yellow

Holland, 1938
Paintings
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (80.01 × 62.23 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection (63.14)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Provenance

The artist (1872-1944); [consigned, probably in 1936 to Valentine Gallery, New York] [1]; returned to the artist, New York, until d.

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The artist (1872-1944); [consigned, probably in 1936 to Valentine Gallery, New York] [1]; returned to the artist, New York, until d. 1944; Piet Mondrian Estate; sold in 1944 to; Harry Holtzman (1912-1987), New York; [sold in 1959 to Sidney Janis Gallery, New York]; [Galerie Beyeler, Basel]; [in 1963 to Harold Diamond, New York]; [Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills]; sold in 1963 to LACMA.

[1] A photograph in the Ben Nicholson archives, sent to Nicholson by Mondrian, shows the painting dated as “36.” In November 1936, Nicholson wrote to his father, William Nicholson, about three paintings he sent to the Valentine gallery in New York.

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Bibliography

  • Joosten, Joop M. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Joosten, Joop M. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Seldis, Henry J. "West Coast Milestone." Art in America 53, no.2 (1965): 92-109.

  • "A Pictorial Essay on the Los Angeles County Museum." The Art Gallery 8, no.9 (1965): 7-15, 30-34.

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