Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale Cows by a stream
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Cows by a stream
oil on canvas laid down on painter's board 37.4 x 27.1 cm, signed l.l. and painted between 1902-1905
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: Robert P. Welsh, Joop Joosten, Piet Mondriaan. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), Blaricum 1998, pag. 170, nr. A-46 (met afb.). Vergelijk o.a. Welsh/Joosten A176, A295, A333 en A338; H. Janssen, J.M. Joosten, 'Mondrian. Les chemins de l'abstraction de 1892 à 1914, Parijs 2002, pag. 79, pag. 81, afb. 33 (in kleur);
Exhibited: Parijs, Musée d'Orsay, 'Mondrian. Les chemins de l'abstraction de 1892 à 1914', 25 maart-14 juli 2002; Verenigde Staten, Texas, Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 'Mondrian 1892-1914', 18 aug.-12 dec. 2002
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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