Piet Mondriaan artwork • watercolour • drawing • for sale Portrait of an old man
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Portrait of an old man
charcoal on paper 52.3 x 39.5 cm, gesigneerd links van het midden
This work on paper is for sale.
Price: € 25,000
Provenance: Herkomst: particulier bezit USA.
Literature: vgl. Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 201, cat.nr. A112 (met afb., gedateerd 1899?).
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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