Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A small farmhouse
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A small farmhouse
oil on canvas 32.7 x 46.2 cm, signed l.l. and ca. 1905-1907
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Kunsthandel G.J. van Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, Den Haag, 1955; Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, Duitsland, 1964; Galleria del Levante, Milaan, Italië.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Mondriaan', 1955, cat.nr. 9 (met afb.); Michel Seuphor, 'Piet Mondrian. Life and Work', Amsterdam 1956, cat.nr. 125 en afb. 97; Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, 'L'opera completa di Mondrian', Milaan 1974, nr. 117 (als 'Casa Rustica' uit 1905); Herbert Henkels, 'Mondriaan' in: Ronald de Leeuw, John Sillevis, Charles Dumas, 'De Haagse School', Den Haag 1984, pag. 152 (met afb.); Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Leiden/Toronto 1998, pag. 272, cat.nr. A300 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Mondriaan', 10 febr.-12 april 1955; Winterswijk, Museum Freriks, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 22 juni-29 sept. 2004; Tsinandali, Georgië, Alexander Chavchavadze House-Museum, ‘Once Upon a time in Holland. The young Piet Mondrian and the Masters who inspired him’, 1 mei-30 juni 2011; Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen, 1 nov. 2011-1 febr. 2012; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Waar het allemaal begon', 21 mei 2013-11 mei 2014; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Mondriaan en Nolde in de natuur', 16 mei-13 sept. 2015; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, ‘Figuratie in Stijl’, 3 maart-24 sept. 2017.
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.
© Simonis & Buunk
