PIET MONDRIAN (Amersfoort 1872–1944 New York) Small farm buildings in Het Gooi. Circa 1898. Oil on paper on board. Signed lower right: Piet Mondrian. 32.3 × 39.7 cm. This work is listed in the RKD, The Hague. Provenance: - Galerie Monet, J. P. Smid, Amsterdam, 1983–86. - Auction Sothebys, Amsterdam, 15.11.1983, lot 210. - Swiss private collection, propaply acquired at the above auction and by descent from the great oncle of the present owner. Literature: - Evelien de Visser and Wietse Coppes: Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné, 2018, online catalogue of works, no. A169 (with ill.). - Joop Joosten und Robert P. Welsh: Piet Mondrian: Catalogue raisonné, 1. Catalogue raisonné of the naturalistic works (until early 1911), Paris 1998, p. 222, no. A168. A painting by Piet Mondrian is immediately recognisable: black grids on a white ground interspersed with red, blue and yellow rectangles and squares. The abstract constructions are unmistakable — indeed, they write art history. One might hardly suspect that Mondrians path to Neoplasticism first began with depictions rendered in earth tones in an impressionistic style. As an autodidact, he concentrated his early work from around 1900 primarily on landscape painting, a genre that took on special significance in the Netherlands during the Hague School period. Such is the case in the present work, in which dynamic, impasto brushwork reveals a farmhouse nestled in a landscape of woods and meadows amidst an approaching storm. Always in search of the truth of nature, Mondrian’s artistic experimentations gradually led him towards complete non-objectivity, in which his depictions of trees, branches and windmills lost their solid forms and culminated in complete abstraction. This evolution in Piet Mondrians oeuvre underscores the multifaceted artistic talent of the Dutch artist, who undertook drastic stylistic changes in the course of his career and laid the foundation for modern abstract art. PIET MONDRIAN (Amersfoort 1872–1944 New York) Small farm buildings in Het Gooi. Um 1898. ?l auf Papier auf Karton. Unten rechts signiert: Piet Mondrian. 32,3 × 39,7 cm. Das Werk ist im RKD, Den Haag, verzeichnet. Provenienz: - Galerie Monet, J. P. Smid, Amsterdam, 1983–86. - Auktion Sothebys, Amsterdam, 15.11.1983, Los 210. - Schweizer Privatsammlung, wohl in obiger Auktion erworben und durch Erbschaft vom Grossonkel an**heutigen Besitzer. Literatur: - Evelien de Visser und Wietse Coppes: Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné, 2018, Onlinewerkverzeichnis, Nr. A169 (mit Abb.). - Joop Joosten und Robert P. Welsh: Piet Mondrian: Catalogue raisonné, 1. Catalogue raisonné of the naturalistic works (until early 1911), Paris 1998, S. 222, Nr. A168. Ein Gem?lde Piet Mondrians erkennt man sofort: schwarze Gitter auf weissem Grund und darin eingebettet rote, blaue und gelbe Rechtecke und Quadrate.**abstrakten Gebilde sind unverkennbar – mehr noch, sie schreiben Kunstgeschichte. So mag man kaum vermuten, dass Mondrians Weg zum Neoplastizismus zun?chst mit in Erdt?nen gehaltenen Darstellungen im impressionistischen Stil beginnt. Als Autodidakt widmet er sich in seinem Frühwerk um 1900 vornehmlich der Landschaftsmalerei, einem Genre, das in den Niederlanden in Zeiten der Haager Schule einen besonderen Stellenwert einnimmt. So auch in vorliegender Komposition, in der sich mit pastosem und lebendigem Pinselstrich ein Bauernhaus in eine Wald- und Wiesenlandschaft bei heraufziehendem Sturm einbettet. Stets auf den Spuren der Wahrheit der Natur, führen ihn seine künstlerischen Experimente mehr und mehr zur kompletten Gegenstandslosigkeit, bei der seine Darstellungen von B?umen, ?sten und Windmühlen ihre feste Form verlieren und in vollst?ndiger Abstraktion münden. Diese Entwicklung in Piet Mondrians ?uvre unterstreicht das facettenreiche künstlerische Talent des Holl?nders, der auf seinem Karriereweg drastische Stilwechsel beschritt und den Grundstein zur modernen abstrakten Kunst legte.
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