Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)

A landscape near Uden

Details

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
A landscape near Uden
signed lower left P.Mondriaan
oil on canvas laid down on board
44.5 x 52.5 cm
Executed circa 1904-5

Provenance

Mr Borgts (?)
J.P. Smid, Amsterdam

Literature

Robert Welsh, "Piet Mondrian/Landscapes before mid-1908" in: exh.cat. Piet Mondrian and the Hague School, Regina 1965, p. 43RM. Trappeniers, "Best, daar maak ik een ding van" in: exh.cat. Mondriaan werk in Brabant, 's-Hertogenbosch 1989, p. 61 (ill.no. 33) Albert van den Briel, Piet Mondriaan/'t is alles een groote eenheid, Bert, Haarlem 1988, p. 99 (ill.)
Robert Welsh, Joop Joosten, Catalogue Raisonn, Vol. I, Blaricum 1998, no. A.378 (ill.), p. 303

Exhibited

Regina, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Piet Mondrian and the Hague School of landscape painting, 10 October-10 November 1969, no. 65
Edmonton, Edmonton Art Gallery, Piet Mondrian and the Hague School, 3 December-28 December 1969, no. 65
's Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, Piet Mondriaan, Een jaar in Brabant 1904-1905, 11 November 1989 - 14 January 1990, no. 33
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacion La Caixa, Kandinsky-Mondrian, Dos Caminos hacia la Abstraccin, 16 September 1994 - 13 November 1994, cat.no. 10 (travelling exhibition to Barcelona)

Lot Essay

This is one of the few known landscape paintings by Mondrian from a Brabant farmland without the inclusion of cattle. In mood and time of the day this painting foreshadows the later 'late evening landscapes', which gradually came to dominate Mondrians landscape production in the three or four years to follow (see Welsh, op.cit, 1989, p. 303).

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