Lot 386
  • 386

PIET MONDRIAN | Gladiolus

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description

  • Piet Mondrian
  • Gladiolus
  • inscribed by another hand Piet Mondrian London - Period (lower right)
  • oil on canvas laid down on board
  • 35.4 by 21.2cm., 13 7/8 by 8 3/8 in.
  • Painted in London circa 1930-38.

Provenance

Ernst Leijden, London & Paris (acquired by 1939)
Private Collection (by descent from the above in 1969)
J. P. Smid, Amsterdam (acquired by 1979)
Private Collection, Amsterdam (sale: Sotheby's, London, 1st July 1981, lot 192)
Waddington Galleries, London (purchased at the above sale; sale: Sotheby's, London, 4th December 1985, lot 197)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian, Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of the Work of 1911-1944, New York, 1998, vol. II, no. C108, illustrated p. 492

Condition

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