Lot Essay
“It is in flowers that external feminine beauty manifests itself most effectively.” -Piet Mondrian
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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Amaryllis studie
Details
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Amaryllis studie
signed with monogram (lower right)
charcoal on board
29 ¾ x 25 1/8 in. (75.5 x 63.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1909-1910
Amaryllis studie
signed with monogram (lower right)
charcoal on board
29 ¾ x 25 1/8 in. (75.5 x 63.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1909-1910
Provenance
S.B. Slijper, Blaricum (acquired from the artist).
Harold Diamond, New York.
Charmion von Wiegand, New York (by 1983).
Harold Diamond, New York.
Charmion von Wiegand, New York (by 1983).
Literature
R.P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), New York, 1998, vol. I, p. 411 (illustrated, no. A625).
D. Shapiro, Mondrian: Flowers, New York, 1991, p. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 62; dated circa 1905).
D. Shapiro, Mondrian: Flowers, New York, 1991, p. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 62; dated circa 1905).
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Mondrian: Flowers in American Collections, March-July 1991, no. 4 (dated 1910).
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