Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • for sale Wool spinning farmer
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
Wool spinning farmer
oil on canvas 34.0 x 28.0 cm, painted ca. 1893-97
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 58,000
Provenance: veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 15 maart 1988, lotnr. 140.
Literature: Vgl.: Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistisc Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 152, cat.nr. A13 (met afb.), te dateren op 1892-1894; zie ook https://villamondriaan.nl/kunstwerken/boereninterieur-met-haard-in-de-achterhoek-ca-1890/
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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