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Amsterdam Skyline Viewed from the West
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in black crayon: "PIET MONDRIAAN"
Provenance
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.
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.
Publications
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.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Piet Mondrian / Dutch, 1872–1944
- Date
- c. 1899
- Medium
- Watercolor, gouache, and fabricated black chalk, with erasures, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 39.9 × 58.8 cm (15 3/4 × 23 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.983
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