Piet Mondriaan (Dutch, 1872-1944)
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Piet Mondriaan (Dutch, 1872-1944)

White roses

細節
Piet Mondriaan (Dutch, 1872-1944)
White roses
signed 'Piet Mondriaan' (lower left)
oil on canvas
46.5 x 24 cm.
Painted circa 1900.
來源
François Buffa & Fils, Amsterdam.
J. Siedenburg, Amsterdam, after 1946.
Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, The Hague.
Auction Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 3 April 1951.
出版
N.H. Wolf, De Kunst, November II, 1923, p. 74. (?)
Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondriaan. Catalogue Raisonné of the naturalistic works, Blaricum 1998, cat.no. A 100.
展覽
Amsterdam, F. Buffa, Flowers and stil lifes, November 1923 (as: 'White Christmas Roses' ?)
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondriaan, 9 February 1955 - 11 April 1955, cat.no. 3
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Ausstellung Piet Mondriaan, November 1964 - February 1965, cat.no. 4
Amsterdam, Gemeentearchief, Mondriaan aan de Amstel, 1994
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna et Contemporanea, Primo Mondrian, 1995-1996, cat.no. 12
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拍品專文

Until the mid-1920's Mondriaan created more then a hundred pictures of flowers. Reflecting years later on his attraction to the subject he wrote 'I enjoyed painting flowers, not bouquets, but a single flower at a time, in order that I might better express its plastic structure'. Years later Mondriaan stated 'I too find flowers beautiful in their exterior beauty, yet there is a deeper beauty hidden.

The colours and brush stroke of White Roses suggest Mondriaan's roots in the Dutch Impressionism, such as the painter Floris Vester.
Robert Welsh had some trouble to date the work. 'Because of the Buffa label attached to the reverse of this painting it was likely present as White Christmas Roses at the exhibition of flowers and still lifes, which the firm organized in November 1923, especially since the art critic N.H. Wolf described it as 'a very precious little work..'. (Welsh, op cit, p. 197) This remark of Wolf could suggest that it is a recent painting (at that time), but that does not stylistically match with Mondriaan's other flower pieces from the 1920's. An earlier date around 1900 seems more likely.