Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • for sale Wool spinning farmer
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Wool spinning farmer
oil on canvas 34.0 x 28.0 cm, painted 1893-97
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 48,000
Provenance: Veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 15 maart 1988, lotnr. 140.
Literature: Vgl.: Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistisc Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 152, cat.nr. A13 (met afb.).
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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