Amsterdam Skyline Viewed from the West by Piet Mondrian
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Amsterdam Skyline Viewed from the West

Piet Mondrian · c. 1899

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 29, 1967, lot 72, as "Canal in Holland," to Basil Appleby, London; Basil Appleby, to at least Dec. 1969 [Regina 1969]. Private collection; sold, Christie’s, Amsterdam, May 22, 1990, lot 177, as "Farmer Carting Manure." “A Charitable Foundation"; sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 1, 1992, lot 129, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Regina, Canada, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, "Piet Mondrian and The Hague School of Landscape Painting," Oct. 10–Nov. 10, 1969, cat. 49, p. 41, as" Farmer Carting Manure"; also the Edmonton Art Gallery, Dec. 3–28, 1969.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 150-151, cat. 105 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Robert Welsh, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911) (New York, 1998), p. 239, cat. A207 (ill.).
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 150-151, cat. 105 (ill.).

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