Details

Pieter Cornelis 'Piet' Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York
Portrait of Mrs. L.C.M. Rijnen-van den Bosch, oil on panel 49,1 x 38,7 cm., signed m.r. and painted 1914-1915 (Joosten) or 1908-1911 (Bax)
998766/prv

Provenance: mevr. J.C.C.L. Visser-Rijnen (eerder getrouwd met J.L. Gunning), de vermoedelijke opdrachtgeefster, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van de vorige eigenaar (part. coll. Nederland).
Literature: Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 262, cat.nr. A272 (met afb.); Marty Bax (inl.), 'Mondriaan Compleet', Blaricum 2001, afb. pag. 347.

Price band: between 15.000 and 25.000 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.