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Piet Mondrian
Composition in White, Red, and Yellow1938

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Abstract oil painting with black grid lines on white ground, with a red rectangle upper left and a narrow yellow vertical stripe at right
Oil painting, abstract composition of thick black horizontal and vertical bands against white rectangular fields, with visible brushwork and surface craquelure; red-orange lettering "PM 38" on the central black band.

Piet Mondrian, Composition in White, Red, and Yellow, 1938, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Piet Mondrian
Holland, 1872-1944
Title
Composition in White, Red, and Yellow
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
1938
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
31 1/2 × 24 1/2 in. (80.01 × 62.23 cm)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection
Accession Number
63.14
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance

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.

Selected Bibliography
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • "A Pictorial Essay on the Los Angeles County Museum." The Art Gallery 8, no.9 (1965): 7-15, 30-34.

  • 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.
  • Joosten, Joop M. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.

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