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Geinrust Farm: Close Frontal View

Piet Mondrian · c. 1905–06

Provenance

Ownership history

J. P. Smid, Amsterdam, possibly before 1962 [Welsh and Joosten 1996]. Sold, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, October 29, 1962, lot 570 (ill.), as "Ferme sous bois au bord d'une petite rivière." Ralph Goldenberg, Chicago [Welsh and Joosten 1996]. Sold by B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Stuttgart, Germany, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Mondrian: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, New Yorker Bilder," December 6, 1980-February 15, 1981, cat. 19 (ill.), as "Gein Farmhouse behind Tress," 1905; traveled to The Hague, The Netherlands, Haags Gemeentemuseum, March 20-May 31, 1981; and the Baltimore Museum of Art, July 14- September 20, 1981, cat. 27.
Amsterdam, the Gemeente Archief, The Netherlands: "Mondrian aan de Amstel," February 17-May 15, 1994.
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Piet Mondrian 1872-1944," June 4-September 4, 1995, p. 94, cat. 6 (ill.); traveled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, October 1, 1995-January 23, 1996.

Literature

Robert P Welsh, Piet Mondrian's Early Career: The "Naturalistic" Periods (New York, 1977), p. 85, fig. 128, as "Gein Farmhouse I."
Yves-Alain Bois, "Mondrian Draftsman" Art in America, 69 (1981), p. 97 (ill.), as "Gein Farmhouse behind Trees," 1905.
Yves-Alain Bois, L'Atelier de Mondrian: Recherches et dessins (Paris, 1982), p. 29, pl. 19 (ill.), as "Ferme derrière des arbres, au bord du Gein," 1905.
Robert P. Welsh and Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné I (New York, 1996), p. 333, no. A443 (ill.).

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