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Property from a Private New York Collection

Piet Mondrian

Chrysanthemum

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private New York Collection

Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944


Chrysanthemum

signed P Mondriaan (lower right)

gouache and watercolor on paper

11 ½ by 7 ½ in.

29.2 by 19.1 cm. 

Executed circa 1906-08.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York 

Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich (acquired by 1978) 

British Railway Pension Fund, London 

Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 13 December 1990, lot 22 

Christie's, Amsterdam, 8 December 1993, lot 227

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York 

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (acquired in 1994) 

Bernard and Helga Kramarsky, New York (acquired from the above in 1995) 

Christie's, New York, 13 November 2021, lot 518 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944, vol. II, New York, 1998, no. C78, p. 485, illustrated (dated 1908)

Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), eds., "Chrysanthemum, 1906-08," Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné, no. C78, illustrated in color (accessed on 7 March 2024)

Munich, Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Zeichnungen alter und neuerer Meister, 1978, no. 66, illustrated