Mondrian 1910s - Part III

B50-B103

A key for the pictures' descriptive information is given at the bottom of the parent page.

B50 Composition No.VI / Compositie 9, 1914 Oil on canvas, 95.2x67.6 cm Beyeler Collection, Basel (previously MoMA, auctioned at Sotheby's NY in 1989). S372, O278, B- Sketch B378 is associated with B50. Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B51 Composition with Colour Planes: Façade, 1914 Oil on canvas, 91.5x65 cm Private collection, on loan to the Kunsthaus Zürich S413, O285, B- Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue, signature image from Bois.
B52 Side Façade: Study for Composition in Oval with Colour Planes 1 (B53 below), 1914 Charcoal on paper, 102.2x61 cm Private collection S379, O-, B- Image from Elgar
B53 Composition in Oval with Colour Planes 1, 1914 Oil on canvas, 107.6x78.8 cm MoMA, New York S380, O277, B- Installation photograph from CR showing B102 and B53 at the Modern Dutch Art exhibition, Brighton, June 1920. Photographer unknown. The detail of the installation shot is from Les chemins de l'abstraction. Bois suggests that B53 is based on preliminary sketch B376-7 and B52, above.
B54 Façade: Study for Composition in Oval with Colour Planes 2 (B55 below), 1914 Charcoal on paper, 134.5x85 cm Private collection S390, O-, B- Temporary image. B&W images in Jaffé, Mondrian, 1970 and in Welsh, Mondrian dessinateur, 1982.
B55 Composition in Oval with Colour Planes 1, 1914 Oil on canvas, 113x84.5 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, S.B. Slijper bequest S412, O284, B238 Image from Janis Family Collections.
B56 Colour Study with Pink, Blue, Yellow and White, 1914 Oil on cardboard, 29.2x27.9 cm Heirs of private collector, Zürich S362, O265, B- I saw this for the first time while updating these pages in 2010 and it was rather a shock, unlike anything else I have seen by PM. If there is one work (or doodle) he wished had not survived him, I'll bet this is it. It is documented but not shown in colour in the Catalogue Raisonné (CR): I found it in the catalogue for the 1964 Mondrian de Stijl and their impact exhibition. The CR notes that the "signature is probably of a later date, between 1927 and 1932". See a page of signatures here.
B57 Church Façade 1: Church at Domburg, 1914 Pencil, charcoal and ink on paper, 63x50.3 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, S.B. Slijper bequest S387, O-, B240 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B58 Church Façade 2, 1914 Charcoal and ink on paper, 61.2x37.5 cm Stephen Mazoh & Co. Inc., New York S400, O-, B-
B59 Church Façade 3, 1914 Charcoal on paper, 78.7x45.7 cm Tokyo Gallery S, O, B Temporary image. B&W image in Bois Du projet au procès, 1982.
B60 Church Façade 4, 1914 Charcoal on paper mounted on cardboard, 76.8x49.5 cm Stephen Mazoh & Co., New York, on loan to the Harvard University Art Museum. S399, O-, B- Temporary image. B&W image in Bois Du projet au procès, 1982.
B61 Church Façade 5, 1914 Charcoal on paper, 71.4x48.4 cm San Francisco Museum of Modern Art S-, O-, B- Temporary image. B&W image in Bois Du projet au procès, 1982; colour image in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Painting and Sculpture Collection, 1985.
B62 Tree, 1914 Charcoal on paper, 79x49.8 cm Graphische Sammlung des Kunstmuseums, Bern, Louise Glarner bequest S404, O-, B- Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B63 Ocean 1, 1914 Charcoal, ink and gouache on paper mounted on board, 49.5x63 cm Moderna Museet, Stockholm S382, O286, B- Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B64 Ocean 2, 1914 / verso: C2 Farm near Duivendrecht Charcoal on paper, 58.7x76.5 cm Private collection S391, O-, B- Temporary image. B&W image in Seuphor, Mondrian: 1914-18, 1952.
B65 Ocean 3, 1914 Charcoal on paper mounted on cardboard, 50.5x63 cm Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalarie, Stuttgart S-, O-, B- Image from the Mondrian CD.
B66 Ocean 4, 1914 Charcoal on paper, 50.4x62.6 cm EWK, Bern S385, O-, B- Image from the Mondrian CD.
B67 Pier and Ocean 1, 1914 Ink and gouache on paper, 50.2x62.9 cm Stephen Mazoh & Co. Inc., New York S395, O288, B- Image from the Mondrian CD.
B68 Pier and Ocean 2, 1914 Charcoal, ink and gouache on paper, 50x62.6 cm Private collection S394, O-, B- Image from Janis Family Collections.
B69 Pier and Ocean 3, 1914 Charcoal on paper, 50.5x63 cm Private collection S396, O-, B- Image from the Mondrian CD.
B70 Pier and Ocean 4, 1914 Charcoal on paper, 50.2x62.8 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, S.B. Slijper bequest S397, O-, B241 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B71 Church Façade 6, 1915 Charcoal on paper, 99x63.4 cm MoMA, New York, from The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection S401, O-, B- Image and signature from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B72 Church Façade 7, 1915 Medium and size not known Whereabouts unknown, reproduced in De Stijl to illustrate an article by PM. S403, O-, B- Image from Elgar
B73 Fragment Church Façade: Composition in Oval, 1915 Charcoal on paper, 50.7x40 cm Private collection S-, O-, B- Temporary image, no suggestions for a better image.
B74 Fragment Church Façade, 1915 verso: C45 Chrysanthumum Ink and gouache on paper, 35x37 cm Ethnike Pinakothiki kai Mouseion Alexandrou, Athens S-, O-, B- Temporary image, no suggestions for a better image.
B75 Composition in a Circle (Church Façade?), 1915 Charcoal on paper, 108x113 cm Private collection S388, O-, B- Temporary image. B&W image in the catalogue for the 1966 Toronto exh., p. 155.
B76 Ocean 5, 1915 Charcoal and gouache on paper, 87.6x120.3 cm The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice S392, O, B Image from the Guggenheim.
B77 Ocean 6, 1915 Medium and size not known Whereabouts unknown S393, O, B Image from Seuphor.
B78 Pier and Ocean 5: "Zee en sterrenlucht" ("Sea and Starry Sky"), 1915 Charcoal, ink(?) and gouache on paper, 87.9x111.7 cm MoMA, New York, from the Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund S380, O287, B- Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B79 Compositie 10 in Zwart Wit (Composition 10 in Black and White), 1915 Oil on canvas, 85x108 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S415, O289, B242
B80 Compositie (Composition), 1916 Oil on canvas, 119x75.1 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York S424, O291, B
B81 Composition (unfinished), 1916 Pencil, oil on canvas, 124.5x75 cm National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto S421, O290, B- Image from Milner.
B83 (and B82) Composition in line, 1916 Compositie in Lijn, 1916/17 (Second state) Oil on canvas, 108x108 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S426, O296, B259 The photograph, from the 1917 Art Circle exhibition in 1918 is from Visions of Utopia and includes B84 and B85, below.
B84 Compositie in Kleur A (Composition in Colour A), 1917 Oil on canvas, 50.3x45.3 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S432, O298, B260 See the installation photograph with B83 above.
B85 Compositie in Kleur B (Composition in Colour B), 1917 Oil on canvas, 50/50.5x45 cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S433, O297, B261 Image and signature from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue. See the installation photograph with B83 above.
B86 Study for Composition in Colour, 1916-17 verso: Plus and Minus sketch Charcoal on paper, 50.1x44.7 cm Sidney Jannis Gallery, New York S389, O-, B- Image from Mondrian in the Sidney Janis Family Collections, New York.
B87 Composition with Colour Planes 1, 1917 Gouache on paper, 48x60 cm Private collection S431, O302, B Image from Blotkamp.
B88 Composition with Colour Planes 2, 1917 Oil on canvas, 48x61.5 cm Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, gift of A.P. van Hoey Smith S429, O300, B263 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue. Bois shows a painting on the reverse of the B88 canvas, "On the reverse of both this painting and [B87], horizontal and vertical lines are visible which do not correspond to the compositions on the front. It is possible that they represent the early stages of a painting of c.1915-1916 that remained unfinished."
B89 Compositie No.3, with Colour Planes 3, 1917 Oil on canvas, 48x61 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum S428, O299, B262 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B90 Composition with Colour Planes 4, 1917 Oil on canvas, 48x61 cm Private collection, on loan to the Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S427, O303, B264
B91 Compositie No.5, with Colour Planes 5, 1917 Oil on canvas, 49x61.2 cm The Sidney And Harriet Janis Collection S430, O301, B-
B92 Composition with Colour Planes and Grey Lines 1, 1918 Oil on canvas, 49x60.5 cm Private collection, Switzerland S441, O307, B- Image from Blotkamp.
B93 Composition with Colour Planes and Grey Lines 2, 1918 Oil on canvas, 49x61 cm Owned by Helene Kröller-Müller / Helene Brückmann-Kröller. Lost by fire c.1944 S-, O-, B- No suggestions for a colour image, the B&W image is from a photograph in the V. Huszár estate. Reconstructed, see comments here.
B94 Composition with Colour Planes and Grey Lines 3, 1918 Oil on canvas, 67x81.5 cm Owned by Helene Kröller-Müller / Helene Brückmann-Kröller. Lost by fire c.1944 S-, O-, B- No suggestions for a colour image. Reconstructed, see comments here.
B95 Composition with Grid, 1918 Oil on canvas, 80.2x49.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger S437, O306, B- Image from Blotkamp.
B96, see B305
B97 Composition with Grid 3: Lozenge Composition, 1918 Oil on canvas, diagonal 121cm, sides 84.5x84.5 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, gift of A.P. van den Briel S438, O305, B266 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.
B98 Composition with Grid 4: Lozenge Composition, 1918 Oil on canvas, diagonal 85cm, sides 60x60cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, from The Louise and Walter C. Arensberg Collection S445, O308, B-
B99 Composition with Grid 5: Lozenge Composition with Colours, 1919 Oil on canvas, diagonal 84.5cm, sides 60x60cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S446, O309, B267
B100 Composition with Grid 6: Lozenge Composition with Colours, 1919 Oil on canvas, diagonal 68.5/69cm, sides 49x49cm Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo S447, O310, B268
B101 Composition with Grid 7, 1919 Oil on canvas, 48.5x48.5 cm Kunstmuseum, Basel S444, O314, B-
B102 Composition with Grid 8: Checkerboard Composition with Dark Colours 1919 Oil on canvas, 84x102 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, S.B. Slijper bequest S443, O313, B270 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue. Installation photograph from CR showing B102 and B53 at the Modern Dutch Art exhibition, Brighton, June 1920. B102 is in the corner of the rooom and on its side. Photographer unknown. Brighton gallery have some contemporary reviews in their archive which I will try to see when I am next down there.
B103 Composition with Grid 9: Checkerboard Composition with Light Colours 1919 Oil on canvas, 86x106 cm Haags Gemeentemuseum, S.B. Slijper bequest S442, O312, B269 Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue.

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