Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • for sale Landscape at Montmorency

Mondrian's last dated naturalistic painting. Proof that he never abandoned figuration in Paris, after gradually distancing himself from the depiction of visible reality between 1895 and 1908. 'Landscape at Montmorency.' Montmorency, a place where wealthy Parisians enjoyed spending time, holds a special place in Mondrian's oeuvre, as it is his last dated naturalistic painting. It was painted in 1930, a year in which he had already been concentrating for over a decade on his theory of Neoplasticism and the resulting geometric-abstract work. This painting was owned by a Belgian collector until 1952, and from that year onward, it has been in an American private collection. With the 2003 purchase of 'Landscape at Montmorency,' Simonis&Buunk brought Mondrian's last naturalistic painting back to the Netherlands, a valuable addition to our cultural heritage. Until 2021, the painting was in the possession of a Dutch collector who hung it next to Mondrian's 'The Seine,' also a late figurative work from 1930.