Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Dusk (Schemering)

Details
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Dusk (Schemering)
signed 'Piet Mondriaan' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
10.7/8 x 17 in. (27.6 x 43.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1890
Provenance
[Possibly] Anon. sale, Galeries Nackers, Brussels, 1 January 1964, lot 355 (as Paysage compagnard).
Gallery Ravenstein, Brussels (1964-1965).
E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York (1965).
B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 1990, lot 335.
Literature
M.G. Ottolenghi, L'opera completa di Mondrian, Milan, 1974, p. 87, no. 3 (illustrated; as Crepuscolo).
R.P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian's Early Career, Princeton, 1965, pp. 18-19.
A.L.C. Jaff, Piet Mondrian, New York, 1970, p. 66 (illustrated in color, p. 67). R.P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian, Catalogue Raisonn of the Naturalistic Works, New York, 1998, vol. I (until early 1911), p. 155, no. A18 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto; Philadelphia, Museum of Art, and The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondrian, February-August 1966, p. 28, no. 4 (illustrated, p. 29).