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Piet Mondrian
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- Piet Mondrian
- Fragment, Church Façade: Composition in Oval
- Charcoal on paper laid down on plywood
- 22 3/4 by 15 7/8 in.
- 57.8 by 40.3 cm
Provenance
Estate of the artist (1944-1970)
Harry Holtzman, Lyme, Connecticut (acquired from the above)
The Pace Gallery, New York
Kay Hillman, New York (1970)
Private Collection (1970)
Literature
Robert Welsh and Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944, vol. 2, Anvers, 1998, no. B73, illustrated p. 248
Catalogue Note
A previous owner of this work, Harry Holtzman was a member of the American Abstract Artists, a group founded in 1936 to promote American Abstract Art. He met Mondrian in 1934, resulting in a life-long friendship and was the executor of his estate.