Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale The ponds in the Haagse Bos
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
The ponds in the Haagse Bos
oil on panel 24.3 x 29.6 cm, signed l.l. and dated '87
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part. bezit Amstelveen; veiling Van Spengen, Hilversum, 2018; Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede; coll. Rose-Marie en Eijk de Mol van Otterloo.
Exhibited: Winterswijk, Museum Villa Mondriaan, 'De vroegste Mondriaan', 3 aug.-2 nov. 2021; Amersfoort, Museum Flehite, 'Naar de natuur. Mondriaan en de Haagse School', 8 okt. 2022-29 jan. 2023; Manchester New Hampsire USA, Currier Museum, najaar 2023; Boston, Verenigde Staten, Museum of Fine Arts, 'Mondrian: Foundations', 11 nov. 2023-28 april 2024.
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.
© Simonis & Buunk