Lot 55
  • 55

Piet Mondrian

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Piet Mondrian
  • FOXTAIL LILY : STUDY V
  • signé avec le monogramme de l'artiste (en bas à gauche)
  • fusain sur papier épais contrecollé sur carton
  • 57,2 x 87,6 cm
  • 22 1/2 x 34 1/2 in.

Provenance

Collection S. B. Slijper, Blaricum, Pays-Bas
Eugene Victor Thaw & Co. Inc., New York
John Blair Linn Goodwin, New York
Collection Anthony P. Russo, New York
Vente : William Doyle Galleries, New York, 20 mai 2008, lot 2107
M. et Mme Joseph P. Carroll, New York (acquis lors de cette vente)

Exhibited

Santa Fe, The Museum of New Mexico, John B. L. Goodwin Collection, 1972

Literature

Joop M. Joosten & Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian : Catalogue raisonné, vol. I : The Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), New York, Blaricum, 1998, no. A614, reproduit p. 405
Marty Bax, Complete Mondrian, Blaricum, 2001, p. 439

Condition

Please note that measurements in inches are incomplete in the printed catalogue and should read 22 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. Executed on paperboard, laid down on composition board. There is a faint horizontal scratch running along the top edge (visible in the catalogue illustration) as well as some areas of damage in the upper left and upper right corners. Apart from a small stain in the upper right quadrant this work (visible in the catalogue illustration) is in stable condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed with the monogram of the artist (lower left), charcoal on paperboard laid on composition board. Executed circa 1909.