B228

Cat	B228
Other	S(657), O404, B-
BMI	0110
Title	Composition No. II with Yellow and Blue
Date	1931
Format	Oil on canvas
Size (h,w)	52 x 52 cm
Signed	lower centre in white on black line: P M 31
Location	Private collection, following sale for $3M on 14th November 1990 auction at Christie's, New York. The Pompidou catalogue states that it is now owned by the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros .
Owners	1932 Christian Zervos (Paris), gift of PM; c.1958 Mary Callery (Paris); c.1968 Galerie Tarica, Paris; 1969 Harold Diamond (NY); 1969 Galerie Beyeler,Basel; 1970 Paul Mellon (Washington DC); 1990 auction, Christie's NY; 1990 private collection; currently Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Credits	Image from the 2011 Pompidou catalogue. The installation photograph from CR shows B226 and B228 at the L'Association 1940 exhibition, Paris, January 1932. I believe the three on the left are by Gorin. Photographer unknown.
Notes	There is a remarkable similarity between B215 and B228.
US ©	2054

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