Piet Mondriaan artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A branch, a study
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A branch, a study
pencil on paper 16.8 x 11.7 cm, painted circa 1905
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. J.S.F. Esser, Amsterdam, ca. 1910; erven J.S.F. Esser, Monte Carlo, 1946-2000.
Exhibited: Najaarstentoonstelling 2001
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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