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Title:Pier and Ocean 3
Artist:Piet Mondrian (Dutch, Amersfoort 1872–1944 New York)
Date:1914
Medium:Charcoal on paper
Dimensions:19 3/4 × 24 3/4 in. (50.2 × 62.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of the Maria and Conrad Janis Estate, 2024
Object Number:2024.565.6
the artist (1914–d. 1944); his estate (Harry Holtzman), New York (1944–63); [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1963–82]; Carroll Janis, New York (from 1982); Maria and Conrad Janis (until his d. 2022; their estate, 2022–24; gift to MMA)
New York. Valentine Gallery. "Paintings and Drawings by Mondrian," January 19–February 7, 1942, no. 23 (as "Pier and Ocean") [possibly this work].
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors by Piet Mondrian," November 4–30, 1963, no. 44 (as "Pier and Ocean").
Basel. Galerie Beyeler. "Piet Mondrian," November 1964–January 1965, no. 36 (as "Pier and Ocean," 1918).
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. "Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944," January 9–February 21, 1965, no. 44 (as "Pier and Ocean," lent by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York).
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. "Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944," March 17–April 18, 1965, no. 44.
Washington, D.C. Washington Gallery of Modern Art. "Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944," May 8–June 20, 1965, no. 31.
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Piet Mondrian 1872–1944: Centennial Exhibition," October 8–December 12, 1971, no. 65 (as "Pier and Ocean," ca. last half of 1914, lent by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York).
Kunstmuseum Bern. "Piet Mondrian 1872–1944," February 9–April 9, 1972, no. 62 (as "Pier und Ozean," second half 1914, lent by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York).
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "Paintings, Drawings, Constructions and Documents by Mondrian," February 7–March 9, 1974, no. 2 (as "Pier and Ocean").
London. Annely Juda Fine Art. "Line + Movement," June 27–September 29, 1979, no. 5 (as "Pier and Ocean").
London. Tate Gallery. "Abstraction: Towards a New Art, Painting 1910–20," February 6–April 13, 1980, no. 63 (as "Pier and Ocean," late 1914, lent by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York).
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "Loan Exhibition of Works by Brancusi and Mondrian," December 2–31, 1982, no. 41 (as "Pier & Ocean").
Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. "Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art," December 8, 1983–February 12, 1984, no. 56 (as "Pier and Ocean," lent by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York).
New York. Sidney Janis Gallery. "Early Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings by Piet Mondrian," February 7–March 9, 1985, no. 64 (as "Pier and Ocean").
The Hague. Haags Gemeentemuseum. "Mondrian in the Sidney Janis Family Collections, New York," February 19–May 29, 1988, no. 33 (as "Starry sky above above the Sea").
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Piet Mondrian 1872–1944," June 11–September 4, 1995, no. 65 (lent by a private collection).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Piet Mondrian 1872–1944," October 1, 1995–January 23, 1996, no. 65.
New York. Pace Gallery. "A Walk on the Beach," June 29–Juy 31, 2009, no catalogue.
New York. Pace Gallery. "Winter Group Show," January 7–26, 2013, no catalogue.
The Hague. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. "Piet Mondriaan en Bart van der Leck–De uitvinding van een nieuwe kunst," February 11–May 21, 2017, no. 106 (lent by Pace Gallery, New York).
Maastricht Exhibition and Conference Centre. "TEFAF Maastricht," March 16–24, 2019, no catalogue (exhibited by Pace Gallery).
New York. Pace Gallery. "STUFF: Organized by Arlene Shechet," June 29–August 19, 2022, no catalogue.
Charmion Wiegand. "The Meaning of Mondrian." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2 (Fall 1943), pp. 66–67, generally discusses "Pier and Ocean" series [portion reprinted in Exh. Santa Barbara and tour 1965 catalogue].
Ottavio Morisani. L’astrattismo di Piet Mondrian, Con Appendice di scritti dell’artista. Venice, 1956, p. 226, no. 33, ill., calls it "Molo e oceano".
Michel Seuphor. Piet Mondrian: Life and Work. New York, [1956], pp. 120, 403, 424, no. 396, fig. 236, generally discusses "Pier and Ocean" series in text, calls it "Pier and Ocean" and lists it in the Harry Holtzman Collection, New York.
Raymond Cogniat. XXth Century Drawings and Watercolors. New York, [1966], ill. p. 136, calls it "Pier and Ocean" and erroneously lists it in the collection of Beyeler Gallery, Basle [sic].
Robert P. Welsh. Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto. [Toronto], [1966], p. 156, generally discusses the "Pier and Ocean" series.
Robert Rosenblum in Robert P. Welsh. Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto. [Toronto], [1966], p. 21, generally discusses "Pier and Ocean" series.
Robert P. Welsh in Robert P. Welsh and J. M. Joosten. Two Mondrian Sketchbooks 1912–1914. Amsterdam, 1969, p. 12.
Robert P. Welsh inPiet Mondrian 1872–1944: Centennial Exhibition. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1971, pp. 36, 147, no. 65, ill.
Hugo Wagner inPiet Mondrian 1872–1944. Ed. Betty Studer. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern. Recklinghausen, [1972], pp. 9, 41, no. 62, ill.
Maria Grazia Ottolenghi. L'opera completa di Mondrian. Milan, 1974, p. 106, no. 289², ill., calls it "Molo e Oceano" and dates it 1915.
Cor Blok. Piet Mondrian: Een catalogus van zijn werk in Nederlands openbaar bezit. Amsterdam, 1974, p. 51, generally discusses "Pier and Ocean" series.
Jane Beckett inAbstraction: Towards a New Art, Painting 1910–20. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery. London, 1980, pp. 43, 45, no. 63, ill.
Yve-Alain Bois. "Du projet au procès." L'Atelier de Mondrian: Recherches et dessins. Paris, 1982, pp. 31–32.
Valerie J. Fletcher. Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 90, 181, no. 56, ill.
S[idney]. J[anis]. Early Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings by Piet Mondrian. Exh. cat., Sidney Janis Gallery. New York, [1985], unpaginated, no. 64, ill. (overall and installation photo, Exh. New York 1963).
Jolanda Nigro Covre. Mondrian: Composizione Ovale con Alberi. Turin, 1990, pp. 46, 55–56, 79, generally discusses "Pier and Ocean" series.
Yve-Alain Bois inPiet Mondrian, 1872–1944. Ed. Angelica Zander Rudenstine. Exh. cat., Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Boston, 1994, pp. 314, 338.
Joop Joosten and Angelica Zander Rudenstine inPiet Mondrian, 1872–1944. Ed. Angelica Zander Rudenstine. Exh. cat., Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Boston, 1994, pp. 33–34, 78, 163, no. 65, ill. (color).
Joop M. Joosten. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 2, Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911–1944. New York, 1998, pp. 176, 246, no. B69, ill.
Joop M. Joosten and Robert P. Welsh. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 3, Appendix. New York, 1998, pp. 15, 42, 59–60, 66, 68–69, 71–72, 74.
Marty Bax. Complete Mondrian. Hampshire, England, 2001, ill. p. 485.
Linda Dalrymple Henderson inKandinsky, Malewitsch, Mondrian: Der weiße Abgrund Unendlichkeit/The Infinite White Abyss. Ed. Maria Müller Schareck. Exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Düsseldorf, 2014, pp. 46–47, 238–39, 280, 288, no. 71, ill. (color).
Evelien de Visser, and Wietse Coppes, with Samantha Hoekema. Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [pietmondrian.rkdmonographs.nl], 2018, ill. (color).
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, Amersfoort 1872–1944 New York)
ca. 1897–1907
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