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Landzicht Farm: Compositional Study
Piet Mondrian · c. 1905
Provenance
Ownership history
- Johannes Samuel Fredericus Esser (1877-1946), Amsterdam, by 1912 [Joosten and Welsh 1996]; Esser estate, from 1946 [Joosten and Welsh 1996]. Sold by Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 135, as "Trees by the River Gein," before 1908.
- Chicago, Allan Frumkin Gallery, "Piet Mondrian: The Early Years 1905-1908," 1964 cat. 7.
- Stuttgart, Germany, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Mondrian: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, New Yorker Bilder," December 6, 1980-February 15, 1981, cat. 18, as "Trees by the River Gein" 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. 26.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio", September 17, 2022 - January 16, 2023, p. 28, fig. 7 (ill.), cat. by Jay Clarke, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Robert P Welsh, Piet Mondrian's Early Career: The "Naturalistic" Periods (New York, 1977), p. 83.
- Lu Bro, Drawing: A Studio Guide (New York, 1978), p. 179, fig. 18.5.
- Otto G. Ocvirk, Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice (Dubuque, 1981) (ill.).
- Yves-Alain Bois, "Mondrian Draftsman" Art in America, 69 (1981), p. 98 (ill.), as "Trees by the River Gein."
- Robert Welsh and Joop Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné I (Santa Barbara, Calif., 1996), p. 329, no. A435 (ill.).
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[Mondrian's Studio]
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Pintura Constructiva
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