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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Piet Mondrian

Avond (Evening)

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2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

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Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg

Piet Mondrian

(1872 - 1944)


Avond (Evening)

signed Piet Mondriaan (lower left)

oil on canvas

33 by 76 ½ in.

83.7 by 194.2 cm. 

Executed in 1908.


We would like to thank Wietse Coppes, an independent scholar specializing in the work of Piet Mondrian, for his assistance in cataloguing this work. 

Marius Johannes Heijbroek, Amsterdam and Sweden (acquired in 1908 and probably until at least 1957)

(probably) Johan Goedkoop, Sloatsburg, New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired by 1963)

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Kurzman, New York (acquired from the above)

Stephen Mazoh Gallery, New York (acquired by 1981)

Acquired from the above circa 1982 by the present owner

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, St. Lucas: 18e de Jaarliksche Tentoonstelling, 1908, no. 319

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Schilderijen en teekeningen door C. Spoor, Piet Mondriaan en Jan Sluyters, 1909

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Piet Mondrian, 1963, no. 11, n.p., illustrated (titled Three Haystacks)

Vienna, Albertina, Piet Mondrian, 2005, no. 27, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Avond; Heuschober auf einem Feld) 

Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus; Wuppertal, Von de Heydt-Museum; Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister; Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum and Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, El Greco bis Mondrian, 1996, n.n., pp. 132-33, illustrated in color (dated circa 1907-08)

Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Ferdinand Hodler Piet Mondrian, eine Begegnung, 1998-99, p. 61, illustrated in color; p. 295 (dated circa 1907-08)

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Mondrian 1892-1914, The Path to Abstraction, 2002, no. 65, p. 123; p. 124, illustrated in color (Fort Worth only)

Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Piet Mondrian, Die Linie, 2015, pp. 124-25, no. 124, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Avond; Heuschober auf einem Feld)

Nathan H. Wolf, ed., “Die 18de jaarlijksche tentoonstelling van Sint-Lucas,” Het Leven, vol. III, no. 21, 22 May 1908, p. 654, illustrated

Knap, De Kunst, 9 January 1909, illustrated 

Robert P. Welsh, The Early Career of Piet Mondrian: The Naturalistic Period, Dissertation, Princeton University, 1965, fig.181, n.p, illustrated 

Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian’s Early Career, The “Naturalistic” Period, New York and London, 1977, fig. 181, n.p., illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Early Mondrian, 1985, n.p., illustrated in an installation image of the 1963 Mondrian Exhibition at Sidney Janis

Harry Holtzman and Martin S. James, eds., The New Art—The New Life, The Collected Writings of Piet Mondrian, Boston, 1986, fig. 40, n.p., illustrated (titled Three Haystacks and dated circa 1907) 

Robert P. Welsh, Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), New York, 1998, no. A561, p. 381, illustrated

Marty Bax, Complete Mondrian, Aldershot, 2001, pp. 129 and 423 illustrated in color (titled Avond (Evening); Haystacks in a Field; (image inverted p. 423))

Ingelies Vermeulen, Robert P. Welsh, Cees W. de Jong, Majory Degen, Katjuscha Otte and Marty Bax, Piet Mondriaan: leven en werk, Amsterdam, 2015, p. 117

Hans Janssen, Piet Mondriaan, Een nieuwe kunst voor een ongekend leven, Een biografie, Amsterdam, 2016, p. 352, illustrated in color 

Hans Janssen, Piet Mondrian, A Life, A Biography, 2022, London, p. 128, illustrated in color (titled Evening; Haystacks in a Field (Avond))

Nicholas Fox Weber, Mondrian, His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute, New York, 2024, p. 89 (titled Evening: Haystacks in a Field)

RKD Studies, ed., Piet Mondrian: Digital Catalogue Raisonné, no. A561, https://pietmondrian.rkdstudies.nl/twente-1906-1908-a538-a593/