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Piet Mondrian, Ocean 4, 1914, Charcoal on strong, beige wove paper© Kornfeld — view on Kornfeld website ↗

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Ocean 4

Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944) · 1914

CHF 4,200,000 hammer

≈ $4,958,100≈ £3,779,904≈ €4,474,416

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Medium
Drawing (charcoal) · Works on paper all drawing results →
As published: “Charcoal on strong, beige wove paper”
Support
Paper
Signed / inscribed
Signed by the artist in pencil
Category
Drawings
Dimensions
50.1 x 62.8 cm
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 280: Highlights from the - Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection - Live Auction (280)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
25
Estimate
CHF 1,000,000 – — (≈ $1,180,500) (≈ £899,977) (≈ €1,065,337)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (3)
  • Galerie d'Art Moderne, Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Basel
  • Théodore and Virginia Bally Collection, Montreux, acquired there by
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (10)
  • Bern 1977, Galerie Kornfeld, 112.5 Jahre Galerie, Kunstwerke von 1140 bis zur Gegenwart, cat. no. 46, ill.
  • Basel 1977, Galerie Beyeler, Delaunay-Mondrian, cat. no. 6, ill.
  • Bern 1989, Kunstmuseum Bern, Von Goya bis Tinguely, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus einer Privatsammlung [Slg. Eberhard W. Kornfeld], cat. no. 44, ill. p. 91
  • The Hague/Washington/New York 1994/1996, Gemeentemuseum/National Gallery of Art/The Museum of Modern Art, Piet Mondrian, cat. no. 63, ill.
  • Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 17, ill.
  • Madrid 2003, Fundación Juan March, Espíritu de modernidad: de Goya a Giacometti, Obra sobre papel de la colección Kornfeld, cat. no. 15, p. 131, ill. p. 41
  • Riehen 2003/2004, Fondation Beyeler, Mondrian + Malevich, In der Mitte der Sammlung
  • Vienna 2005, Albertina, Piet Mondrian, cat. no. 66, ill.
  • The Hague 2017, Gemeente Museum, Mondrian - Van der Leck 1916-1919, cat. no. 104, ill. p. 79
  • Riehen/Düsseldorf 2022/2023, Fondation Beyeler/K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mondrian Evolution, p. 139, 243
Literature (9)
  • Catalogue raisonné: Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian, Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944, Blaricum/Paris 1998, no. B66
  • Catalogue raisonné: Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrain, Leben und Werk, Œuvrekatalog, no. 385, group catalogue no. 228, ill. reprod. 124
  • Michel Seuphor, Mondrian, Le Retour de Mondrian ou les cendres brûlantes, in: Aujourd'hui, Art et Architecture 2, 1957, ill. p. 9
  • Frank Elgar, Mondrian, New York 1968, ill. 69, p. 71
  • Alberto Busignani, Mondrian, I diamanti dell'Arte no. 36, 1968, ill. p. 23
  • Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Abstraction and Compositional Innovation, Artforum 11, 1973, p. 55
  • Carel Blotkamp, Mondriaan - Architectuur, 1982, p. 24, ill. p. 25
  • Yves-Alain Bois, L'atelier de Mondrian: Du projet au procès, 1982, p. 31/32
  • Thim Threlfall, Piet Mondrian, His Life's Work and Evolution 1872 to 1944, 1988, p. 224/225

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