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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.101
People
Piet Mondrian, Dutch (Amersfoort, The Netherlands 1872 - 1944 New York, N.Y.)
Title
Vase with Dahlias
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
before 1919
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297510

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
36.8 x 34 cm (14 1/2 x 13 3/8 in.)
Corner was repaired: without corner 34 cm, with corner attached 34.5 cm.
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: L.l., black chalk: Piet Mondriaan
  • inscription: L.l. corner, graphite: Given to me in his studio in Holland 1918

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to Mrs. J. Rudolf Katz, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1918. [Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, 1957], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Copyright
© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.101
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Four Centuries of Still Life, exh. cat., Allentown Art Museum (Allentown, PA, 1959), fig. 64, no. 69
  • Agnes Mongan, Mondrian's Flowers, Miscellanea, I.Q. van Regteren Altena (Amsterdam, 1969), 16-V-1969, p. 397, fig. 10
  • Nathan Goldstein, A Guide to 100 American and European Drawings: A Portfolio, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982), pl. 62
  • Joop M. Joosten and Robert Welsh, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1998), no. C105, p. 491, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Flowers in February, a Check List of the Exhibition Held February 19-March 9, 1962, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
  • Introduction to Harvard University, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 04/01/1974 - 04/30/1974

Verification Level

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