Piet Mondrian

Signed “PIET MONDRIAAN” (lower right) 

75 by 64 cm. 

Popke Sjoerd Bakker (1912 - 1945), Amsterdam;

Mrs I.J. Bantzinger-Wiedenhoff (1920 - 2006), Amsterdam, by descent from the above;

Modern and Contemporary Art, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 April 1989, lot 342;

With Kunsthandel Studio 2000, Laren by 1990;

Acquired from the above by the present owner. 

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Sint Lucas: 11^de Jaarlijksche Tentoonstelling, 8 June – 15 July 1901, no. 101;

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Piet Mondriaan, 12 February – 20 March 1966, no. 15; Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Piet Mondriaan, 1 April – 9 May 1966, no.15; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Piet Mondriaan, 15 June – 7 Augustus 1966, no. 15;

Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Van Gogh bis Cobra: Höllandische Malerei 1880-1950, 23 November 1980 – 18 January 1981, no. 146; Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Van Gogh tot Cobra: Nesderlandse schilderkunst 1880-1950, 14 February – 21 April 1981;

Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, 25 July – 31 Augustus 1987; Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art, 5 September – 4 October 1987; Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art, 10 October – 8 November 1987; Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, 14 November – 20 December 1987; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, 20 February – 29 May 1988, illustrated p.163;

Madrid, Fundacion la Caixa, Kandinsky – Mondrian: dos caminos hacia la abstracción, 16 September 1994 – 22 January 1995, no. 5;

Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, Face-Off: Mondriaan vs. hedendaage kunstenaars, 8 March – 22 September 2019.

Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian: Life and Work, New York, 1956, p. 358, no. 227 (where dated 1908);

Robert P. Welsh, Ph.D. diss, Piet Mondrian's Early Career, Princeton, 1965, pp. 35-36, illustrated p. 36;

Robert P. Welsh, Mondrian, 1966, p. 47;

Robert P. Welsh, The Portrait of Art of Mondrian, in ‘Album Amicorum J.G. van Gelder’, The Hague, 1973, pp. 357-358, no. 5;

M.G Ottolenghi, L'Opera completa di Mondrian, Milan, 1974, pp. 89-99, no. 195, illustrated p. 99 (titled Le due Sorella and where dated 1908);

C. Blotkamp, Kunstenaren der idee: Symbolistische tendenzen in Nederland, ca. 1880-1930, 1978, p. 103, no. 27;

Herbert Henkels, Mondriaan in Winterswijk. Een essay over de jeugd van Mondriaan, z’n vader en z’n oom, The Hague, 1978, pp. 53-54, illustrated fig. 82 (titled Lente-idylle);  

Herbert Henkels, Mondrian in his studio; Mondrian’s vision of himself as an artist, exhibition catalogue ‘Mondrian, Zeichnungen’ Stuttgart, 1980, p. 239, 241 (titled Fruhlingsidylle, Idyll of Spring, and Lente-idylle);

Herbert Henkels, Figuration to abstraction, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, 1987, p. 163, 173, illustrated p. 163;

 V. Barnett, Kandinsky – Mondriaan: Two Paths toward Abstraction, exhibition catalogue, Fundacion la Caixa, Madrid, 1994, p. 100, 144, cat. no. 5;

 Ingo F. Walther, Peter H. Feist, Schilderkunst van het Impressionisme: Deel II: Het Impressionisme in Europa en Noord-Amerika, 1994, p. 418-419;

 Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), Antwerp, 1998, p. 179, no. A64.