Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A farm along a waterway
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A farm along a waterway
oil on canvas laid down on panel 23.5 x 32.0 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1903
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Bruikleen uit part. coll.: Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum ca. 1974-2000; David Zwirner, London, early Mondrian collection, 2015-16.
Literature: Kasten Schubert, Hans Janssen, Richard Shiff, 'Early Mondrian. Painting 1900-1905', Londen 2016 ter gelegenheid van tentoonstelling bij David Zwirner gallery, Londen.
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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