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Lot Essay
In relation to this work Robert Welsh noted that 'The indistinct character of the landscape and farm buildings in the distance renders hazardous any attempt at localisation, except that the presence of a polder points to some western area of the Netherlands.' (R. P. Welsh, Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), Toronto, 1998, p. 283.)
Dating the work is also somewhat difficult due to the lack of identifying features - when last sold, at Christie's Amsterdam in 1988, it was noted that Herbert Henkels of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, suggested both a location and an earlier date for this work. Henkels believed that this drawing was made near Het Kalfje circa 1897, and that there is a clear relationship with a later group of works designated as the Kalfje group after the name of a well known café along the Amstel river, a few miles from Amsterdam near which Mondrian is known to have worked.
Dating the work is also somewhat difficult due to the lack of identifying features - when last sold, at Christie's Amsterdam in 1988, it was noted that Herbert Henkels of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, suggested both a location and an earlier date for this work. Henkels believed that this drawing was made near Het Kalfje circa 1897, and that there is a clear relationship with a later group of works designated as the Kalfje group after the name of a well known café along the Amstel river, a few miles from Amsterdam near which Mondrian is known to have worked.