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Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A shipyard

Mondriaan P.C.  | Pieter Cornelis 'Piet' Mondriaan, A shipyard, oil on canvas 31.0 x 37.3 cm, signed l.r.

Piet Mondriaan

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.


Piet Mondriaan | Farm with tree, oil on board laid down on panel, 75.5 x 64.0 cm, painted circa 1906-1907

Piet Mondriaan

painting • for sale

Farm with tree

Piet Mondriaan | Geinrust farm with Isolated Tree at left, oil on canvas, 47.7 x 63.8 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1905-1906

Piet Mondriaan

painting • for sale

Geinrust farm with Isolated Tree at left

Piet Mondriaan | Group of trees, black chalk on paper, 33.4 x 44.0 cm, signed l.l. and 1902-1905

Piet Mondriaan

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Group of trees

Piet Mondriaan | Landscape at Montmorency, oil on canvas, 46.3 x 55.2 cm, signed l.r. and on the reverse and dated on the reverse 8 Aug. '30

Piet Mondriaan

painting • for sale

Landscape at Montmorency

Piet Mondriaan | The Banks of the Seine, oil on canvas, 54.2 x 73.1 cm, signed l.l. and painted in 1931

Piet Mondriaan

painting • for sale

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