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Pieter Cornelis 'Piet' Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York
A small farmhouse, oil on canvas 32,7 x 46,2 cm., signed l.l. and ca. 1905-1907
412157/Coll.III cv

Provenance: Kunsthandel G.J. van Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, Den Haag, 1955; Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, Duitsland, 1964; Galleria del Levante, Milaan, Italië.
Literature: Tent.cat. Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum 's-Gravenhage, 'Mondriaan', 1955, cat.nr. 9 (met afb.); Michel Seuphor, 'Piet Mondrian. Life and Work', Amsterdam 1956, cat.nr.125 en afb.nr. 97; Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, 'L'opera completa di Mondrian', Milaan 1974, nr. 117 (als 'Casa Rustica' uit 1905); Herbert Henkels, 'Mondriaan' in: Ronald de Leeuw, John Sillevis, Charles Dumas, 'De Haagse School', Den Haag 1984, pag. 152 (met afb.); Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Leiden/Toronto 1998, pag. 272, nr. A300 (met afb.).

Price band: between 50.000 and 100.000 euro

Before Mondrian made the typically abstract compositions for which he became famous, he drew and painted landscapes, figures, flowers and still-lifes in a naturalist style. Between 1895 and 1908, he gradually detached himself from pictorial representation and experimented with colour, composition and a simplifying of forms. This ultimately led to depicting nature in abstract vertical and horizontal lines and planes in primary colours.