Works Formerly in the Collection of Charmion von Wiegand

Piet Mondrian

Farmyard with Sheep & Female Nude: Bust Portrait (A Double-Sided Work)

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March 11, 07:39 PM GMT

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60,000 - 80,000 USD

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Works Formerly in the Collection of Charmion von Wiegand

Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944

Farmyard with Sheep & Female Nude: Bust Portrait (A Double-Sided Work)

Recto: charcoal and conté crayon on paper

Verso: pencil on paper

13 by 16 in. (33 by 40.6 cm)

Framed: 20 ½ by 23 in. (52 by 58.4 cm)

Recto: executed circa 1905.

Verso: executed circa 1909-11.

Executed on buff colored wove paper. The sheet may be lightly time stained overall. The medium is well preserved. Artist's pinholes in all four corners. Hinged to a window mat on all four corners of the verso of the sheet. The edges of the sheet are unevenly cut. A fleck of red glitter is attached to the surface at center right. This work is in good condition.

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Dr. Jan F. Esser, Leiden (acquired by 1912)
S.B. Slijper, Blaricum, The Netherlands (acquired by 1946)
Charmion von Wiegand, New York (acquired from the above in 1966)
A bequest from the above in 1983

Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, Life and Work, New York, 1956, illustrated p. 66
Robert P. Welsh, Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), vol. I, New York, 1998, nos. A317 & A645, illustrated p. 277 & 420
Martin Brauen, A Sameness Between Us: The Friendship of Charmion von Weigand and Piet Mondrian in Letters and Memoirs, Stuttgart, 2021, illustrated in color n.p.