Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale The river Gein with the Oostzijdse Molen by sunset
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
The river Gein with the Oostzijdse Molen by sunset
oil on canvas 75.2 x 132.4 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1907
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part. bezit (rechtstreeks van de schilder gekocht door de vader van de eigenaar); veiling Christie's, Laren, 17 okt. 1977, lotnr. 377; Galerie Monet, Amsterdam, 1995; veiling Sotheby's New York 10 mei 1995, lotnr. 239; Joseph M.B. Guttmann Galleries, Los Angeles; Amersfoort, Mondriaanhuis, bruikleen Simonis&Buunk Kunsthandel - Ede, 12 sept.-23 nov. 2003.
Literature: Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian and the Dutch Landscape / Piet Mondriaan en het Hollandse landschap', Den Haag 1988, z.p., afb. in kleur; tent.cat. Madrid, Sala d'Exposicions de la Fundació 'la Caixa' / Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació 'la Caixa', 'Kandinsky, Mondrian. Dos Camins vers l'abstracció', 1994, cat.nr. 19; Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Leiden/Toronto 1998, pag. 319, cat.nr. A410 (met afb.).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Gallery P. van Voorst van Beest, 'Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944', sept.-nov. 1988; Madrid, Sala d'Exposicions de la Fundació 'la Caixa', 16 sept.-13 nov. 1994, Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundació 'la Caixa', 25 nov. 1994-22 jan. 1995, 'Kandinsky, Mondrian. Dos Camins vers l'abstracció'.
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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