Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A summer's night, a study
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A summer's night, a study
oil on canvas 32.3 x 44.1 cm, signed l.r. and painted 1906-1907
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: mevr. K. Legat, Den Haag; Jon N. Streep, Amsterdam/New York, 1963; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York/Chicago, 1965; Mrs. Michael Newbury; veiling Sotheby's, New York, 12 nov. 1987, lotnr. 335 (met afb.); veiling Christie's, Amsterdam, 7 dec. 1994, lotnr. .….
Literature: Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, 'L'opera completa di Mondrian', Milaan 1974, pag. 96, cat.nr. 144 (met afb.); Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian's Early Career: The 'Naturalistic' Periods', New York 1977, pag. 91 (met afb.nr. 149); tent.cat. 'Piet Mondrian 1872-1944', Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto/Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1966, pag. 82, cat.nr. 39 (met afb.); tent.cat. 'Piet Mondriaan', The Art Gallery of Toronto/Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 1966, pag. 69, cat.nr. 41 (met afb.); tent.cat. Den Haag, Gallery Pieter B. van Voorst van Beest, 'Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944', 1988, cat.nr. 10 (met afb.); Robert P. Welsh e.a., 'Mondriaan aan de Amstel 1892-1912', Amsterdam 1994, pag. 130, nr. 45 (met afb. in kleur); Robert P. Welsh, 'Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Toronto/Blaricum 1998, pag. 360, cat.nr. A521 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, bruikleen mevr. K. Legat, april 1955-1963; 'Piet Mondrian 1872-1944', Toronto, Canada, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 12 febr.-20 maart 1966/Philadelphia, Verenigde Staten, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1 april-9 mei 1966/Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 16 juni-7 aug. 1966; Den Haag, Gallery Pieter B. van Voorst van Beest, 'Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944', 1988; Amsterdam, Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, 'Mondriaan aan de Amstel 1892-1912', 18 febr.-15 mei 1994; 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, 'Mondriaan in de polder', 8 sept. 2013-12 jan. 2014.
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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