Victory Boogie-Woogie
Victory Boogie Woogie
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| Artist |
Piet Mondrian |
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| Year |
1942–44 |
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| Type |
Oil and paper on canvas |
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| Dimensions |
127 cm × 127 cm (50 in × 50 in) |
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| Location |
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague |
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| Owner |
State property of the Netherlands through the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit |
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Victory Boogie-Woogie is the last, unfinished, work by the Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian. Left incomplete in 1944, since 1998 it has been in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.[1] It was purchased at a cost of 80 million guilders (approximately 35 million euros) from the American collector Samuel Irving Newhouse, who purchased the work from Emily and Burton Tremaine for $12 million USD in the mid 1980s. It was bought by the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit (National Art Foundation) through a gift from the Dutch Central Bank, commemorating the introduction of the euro. This amount of money spent on the gift raised questions in the Dutch House of Representatives.
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