Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale Farmstead with long row of trees on the Gein
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Farmstead with long row of trees on the Gein
oil on canvas 35.8 x 45.3 cm, painted in 1905-1907
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. J.F.S. Esser, Amsterdam, ca. 1910; erven J.F.S. Esser, Monte Carlo, 1946-2000.
Literature: Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 349, cat.nr. A489 (met afb.); Astrid Becker e.a., 'Mondriaan en Nolde in de Natuur/Mondriaan und Nolde in der Natur', Winterswijk/Zwolle 2015, afb. in kleur pag. 29.
Exhibited: Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 12 sept.-23 nov. 2003; Winterswijk, Museum Freriks, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 22 juni-29 sept. 2004; Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, 'Zonen en Dochters van Amersfoort', 17 mei-12 sept. 2009; 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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