Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A shipyard
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A shipyard
oil on canvas 31.0 x 37.3 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 dec. 1953; veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 29 juli 1954; Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, Den Haag.
Literature: Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian. Life and Work, New York/Amsterdam 1956, cat.nr. 16, afb.nr. 38; Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian's early career, proefschrift, Princeton 1965, pag. 46-47, afb.nr. 50; C. Blok, Mondriaan in de collectie van het Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag 1964, pag. 18/1968 pag. 19; Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian; Introduction and Catalogue, Toronto/Philadelphia 1966, pag. 39, nr. 11 (met afb.); Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondriaan, Den Haag 1966, pag. 34, nr. 12 (met afb.); Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, 'L'opera completa di Mondrian, Milaan 1974, nr. 32; Joop M. Joosten and Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondriaan: Catalogue Raisonné of the naturalistic works (until early 1911), Blaricum 1998, pag. 225-226, nr. A177 (met afb.)
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Teekeningen Enz. van Leden, sept. 1898, cat.nr. 78; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sint Lucas: 9e Jaarlijksche Tentoonstelling, mei-juni 1899, cat.nr. 63; Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Mondriaan, febr.-apr. 1955, cat.nr. 4; Toronto, Canada, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), febr.-mrt. 1966, cat.nr. 11; Philadelphia, Museum of Modern Art, Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), apr.-mei 1966, cat.nr. 11; Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944), juni-aug. 1966, cat.nr. 12
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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