Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)

Head of a woman, with polkamuts

Details

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
Head of a woman, with polkamuts
with signature lower left Piet Mondriaan (probably by J.S.F. Esser)
crayon and black chalk on paper
37.5 x 28 cm
Executed circa 1899

Provenance

Dr. J.S.F. Esser, Amsterdam, 1913

Literature

Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondriaan. Early career, Princeton 1965, p. 30-31, ill. no. 25
Robert P. Welsh, "The portrait art of Mondriaan", Album Amicorum J.G. van Gelder, The Hague 1973, p. 358, ill. no. 10
Robert P. Welsh, Joop Joosten, Piet Mondriaan, Catalogue Raisonn of the Naturalistic Works, Vol. I, Blaricum 1998, no. A50, ill. p. 173

Lot Essay

The woman in the present lot wears a bonnet typical for the region of the Achterhoek. In 1897-1899 Mondriaan visited the village of Winterswijk, where his family had its roots, for the second time.

See colour illustration

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