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Property from a Distinguished Boston Collection

Piet Mondrian

The Weavers' House

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Boston Collection

Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944

The Weavers' House


signed Piet Mondriaan and dated '99. (lower right)

gouache, watercolor and pastel on paper

27¾ by 21¼ in.

70.5 by 54 cm.

Executed in 1899.

Muller Collection, Laren
Private Collection, New Zealand
John Cordy, Ltd., Auckland
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York (acquired from the above circa 1960-67)
Acquired from the above on 9 January 1967 by the present owner
Herbert Henkels, Mondriaan in Winterswijk. Een essay over de jeugd van Mondrian, z'n vader en z'n oom, The Hague, 1979, pp. 47-48 
Wim Scholtz, "Tweemaal Mondriaan en het Mondriaanhuis," Jaarboek Achterhoek en Liemers 9, 1986, pp. 108-9 
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art and traveling, Mondrian: From figuration to abstraction, 1987-1989, p. 160
Joop P. Joosten and Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian, Catalogue Raisonné; Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), vol. I, New York, 1998, no. A72, p. 183, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions) & p. 26, illustrated in color