Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale Portrait of C.M.J.W. Rijnen
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Portrait of C.M.J.W. Rijnen
oil on panel 49.6 x 39.1 cm, signed r.c. and painted 1914-1915 (Joosten) or 1908-1911 (Bax)
This painting was previously for sale.
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. A271 (met afb.); Marty Bax (inl.), 'Mondriaan Compleet', Blaricum 2001, afb. pag. 346.
Exhibited: Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 8 aug.-30 nov. 2005; Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 18 okt. 2006-2008; Winterswijk, Museum Freriks, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 17 juni 2010-20 dec. 2011; Tsinandali, Georgië, Alexander Chavchavadze House-Museum, ‘Once Upon a time in Holland. The young Piet Mondrian and the Masters who inspired him’, 1 mei-30 juni 2011; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Mondriaan en zijn leermeesters', 16 mei 2014-15 mei 2015; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, tot april 2016.
Before Mondrian made the abstract compositions with 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 exact 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.
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