Piet Mondriaan artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A flowering apple tree
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A flowering apple tree
coloured pencil on paper 19.0 x 25.0 cm, signed l.l. and painted circa 1917
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Eduard M. van Dam, Amsterdam, 1917-1918 (geschenk van de kunstenaar); coll. mevrouw H. van Dam-Roosendaal, Amsterdam/Londen, 1922; coll. mevrouw Alice Krudop-van Dam, Enschede, 1992; coll. Mariëtte Simonis, Ede.
Literature: Joop M. Joosten, 'Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944', Leiden/Toronto 1998, pag. 469, nr. C20 (met afb.); Cees Kamerbeek, Jarmila Kamerbeek, Marjan de Man, Onno Maurer, 'Jongkind tot Van der Leck: de passie van een collectioneur. Collectie Kamerbeek', Amersfoort 2007, pag. 186, cat.nr. 68 (met afb. in kleur pag. 187).
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
