Fox Trot B, with Black, Red, Blue, and Yellow Artist: Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944)

1929

Modern and Contemporary Art

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

17 7/8 × 17 7/8 in. (45.4 × 45.4 cm)
framed: 22 1/8 × 22 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (56.2 × 56.2 × 3.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.604

Culture

Dutch

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Collection Société Anonyme, to 1941; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Florence Gétreau, Voir La Musique (Paris: Éditions Citadelles et Mazenod, 2017), 371, fig. 317
  • Elisabeth Hodermarsky, "Becoming Piet Mondrian: Two Transitional Works," in "European Art," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2016), 108, fig. 3
  • Daniel Soutif, "Fox Trot et Boogie Woogie," Télérama hors série: Piet Mondrian au centre pompidou (2010), 85, ill
  • Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts, exh. cat. (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010), 31, ill
  • Timothy Rub et al., Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, ed. Michael R. Taylor, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009), 64
  • Daniel Soutif et al., The Jazz Century: Art, Cinema, Music and Photography from Picasso to Basquait (Milan: Skira, 2009), ill
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 113, fig. 21
  • Jan van der Marck, In Quest of Excellence, exh. cat. (Miami: Center for Fine Arts, 1984), 139–40, no. 156
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 480, no. 504, ill
  • Nancy Troy, Mondrian and Neo-Plasticism in America, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1979), 47, no. 35
  • Frank Elgar, Mondrian, exh. cat. (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968), 244, no. 337
  • The Classic Tradition in Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1953), 50, no. 90
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 64-65, ill
  • Catalog of an International Exhibition Illustrating the Most Recent Development in Abstract Art, exh. cat. (Buffalo: Société Anonyme, 1931), 11, no. 49
  • Katherine S. Dreier, The International Exhibition of Modern Art, exh. cat. (New York: Anderson Galleries, 1927), 15, no. 70
Object copyright
©2023Mondrian/Holtzman Trust
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), nonrepresentational art

Subject

Squares

Inscriptions

Inscr. verso top: "Hautt/Composition" middle "P. Mondrian," bottom "Fox-Trot-B"

Signed

Signed 1.r. P.M. 29

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