LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor on paper laid down on board

Measurements:

26.57 in. (67.50 cm.) (height) by 46.34 in. (117.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Piet Mondriaan.' (lower right)

Exhibited:

(probably) Arti, 1907. Utrecht, Kunstliefde, April 1909, no. 63. New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Bedford Collects: The Taste of a Community, May-June 1972, no. 36 (titled Wharf by a Canal). Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Corporations Collect: Inaugural Exhibition of the Heinz Galleries, October 1975-January 1976, no. 48 (titled Wharf by a Canal).

Literature:

R.P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian's Early Career: The "Naturalistic" Periods, Ph.D. Diss., Princeton University, 1965, p. 120 (illustrated, fig. 206). R.P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), New York, 1998, vol. I, p. 367, no. A536 (illustrated).

Provenance:

(possibly) Galerie Hans Brinkman, Amsterdam. Budde collection; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 28 June 1961, lot 80. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.