Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A haystack with willow trees
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A haystack with willow trees
oil on canvas 63.3 x 51.9 cm, signed l.r. and painted between 1897-1898
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Sal Slijper, Blaricum, rechtstreeks van de kunstenaar gekocht in 1919; part. bezit Zwitserland, 1949-1998.
Literature: Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), Leiden/Toronto 1998, pag. 216, nr. A 151 (met afb).
Exhibited: Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, 'Piet Mondriaan, Echt of Onecht', 8 maart-25 mei 1997; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, ‘Figuratie in Stijl’, 3 maart-24 sept. 2017; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Jong en veelbelovend', 29 sept. 2017-25 febr. 2018; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Terug naar toen: Mondriaan, Sluijters en Spoor', 2 maart-16 sept. 2018; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Face off', 8 maart-22 sept. 2019; Villa Mondriaan, in bruikleen tot oktober 2022; Amersfoort, Museum Flehite, 'Naar de natuur. Mondriaan en de Haagse School', 8 okt. 2022-29 jan. 2023.
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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