Lot 129
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
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GBP 24,200
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Specialist note
Although the exact date of this watercolour is unknown, it was probably executed somewhere around the turn of this century.
As Robert Welsh points out, there is a specific debt in this work to the Hague Impressionist style. "Although its trees are shorn of summer foliage the farmer carting manure is equally indebted to the light fingered impressionism of the same Maris brothers and to Mauve, which generalized painterly manner by the 1890s was so prevalent in the Netherlands as to have influenced even the late watercolours of Joseph Israëls. (R. Welsh, p. cit., p. 41)
As Robert Welsh points out, there is a specific debt in this work to the Hague Impressionist style. "Although its trees are shorn of summer foliage the farmer carting manure is equally indebted to the light fingered impressionism of the same Maris brothers and to Mauve, which generalized painterly manner by the 1890s was so prevalent in the Netherlands as to have influenced even the late watercolours of Joseph Israëls. (R. Welsh, p. cit., p. 41)