Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale Cattle in an orchard
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Cattle in an orchard
oil on canvas 50.2 x 69.3 cm, signed l.l. and painted 1902-1903
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: (tot 6 september 2006 verkocht als Frits Mondriaan); waarschijnlijk: veiling B.L. Voskuil, Amsterdam, 4 mei 1909, lot 191 (als: Piet Mondriaan, 'Landschap met vee', doek: 50 x 70 cm; dit is voorzover bekend het eerste schilderij van Mondriaan dat ter veiling is verschenen). Venema Antiques, Drempt, Christie's Amsterdam, september 2006; privebezit Simonis-Buunk 2006 - 2016; particulier bezit Noord Holland.
Literature: Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 474: Catalogue Raisonné of the Unidentified References, cat.nr. UA16; Joop M. Joosten, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944', Leiden/Toronto 1998, Appendix, pag. 23.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, UA 14, 1903? (stilleven, zelfde maat); Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Kunstwerken van Levende Meesters', 12 sept.-15 nov. 1903, cat.nr. 359 met als titel 'Grazende kalfjes'; Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, vanaf 16 juni 2010; 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; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Mondriaan en zijn leermeesters', 16 mei 2014-10 mei 2015; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Vee in beeld', 4 maart-4 sept, 2016, daarna in bruikleen gebleven tot 25 sept. 2016.
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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