Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale Landscape near Montmorency
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Landscape near Montmorency
oil on canvas 46.3 x 55.2 cm, signed l.r. and on the reverse and dated on the reverse 8 Aug. '30
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Van den Bergh, Brussel; part. coll. New York (tot 1952); veiling Parke-Bernet, New York, 21 febr. 1952, lotnr. 71 (met afb.); coll. Albert Perreño, 1952-1953; veiling Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 mei 1953, lotnr. 40 (met afb.); part. coll. New York, 1953-1956; veiling Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 mei 1956, lotnr. 104 (met afb.); part. coll. New York, 1956-1958; veiling Parke-Bernet, New York, 3 apr. 1958, lotnr. 329; part. coll. Verenigde Staten; Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 2004; part. coll. Zaandam.
Literature: Joop M. Joosten, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944', Leiden/Toronto 1998, pag. 468, cat.nr. C19 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen Simonis&Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, sept.-okt. 2003; Winterswijk, Museum Freriks, bruikleen Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 20 juli-29 sept. 2004; Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, 'Mondriaan - Montparnasse - Abstractie in Parijs', 15 okt. 2005-8 jan. 2006.
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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