Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)

Side view of a farmbuilding in Winterwijk

Details

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
Side view of a farmbuilding in Winterwijk
black chalk, red chalk and pencil on cardboard
33 x 45 cm
Executed circa 1898-1899

Provenance

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

Literature

Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondriaan. Early career, Princeton 1965, p. 97, ill. no. 156
Herbert Henkels, "Mondriaan in Winterswijk", exh.cat. Mondrian from figuration to abstraction, The Hague/Tokyo 1987/88, p. 162 (ill.)
Robert P. Welsh, Joop Joosten, Piet Mondriaan, Catalogue Raisonn of the Naturalistic Works, Vol. I, Blaricum 1998, no. A79, p. 186 (ill.)

Exhibited

Stuttgart, Wrttembergischer Kunstverein, Van Gogh bis Cobra: Hollndische Malerei 1880-1950, 23 - 18 January 1981, no. 2
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Mondrian: Drawings & Watercolours, 11 July - 20 September 1981, no. 4

Lot Essay

In 1878 Mondriaan moved with his family to Winterswijk and from that time until 1907 scenes from this village regulary appear in his work.
This mixed media drawing represents a corner, viewed obliquely, of an eastern Dutch hallehuis farmbuilding. Because it conforms in style to several other drawings with known Winterswijk-subjects (for example cat.no. A63, A76) it is reasonable to assume the same general location.(Welsh, op.cit., 1998, p. 186)

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