Piet Mondriaan artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A farmstead
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A farmstead
chalk on paper 11.7 x 16.8 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.
Literature: Michel Seuphor, 'Piet Mondrian. Sa vie, son oeuvre', Parijs 1970, nr. 638; Joop M. Joosten, Robert P. Welsh, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911)', Blaricum 1998, pag. 281, nr. A331 (met afb.)
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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