LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.88 in. (50.50 cm.) (height) by 13.86 in. (35.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Acquisitions , October - November 1959, no. 30 (dated ‘1909’).  New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, XXth Century Artists , October - November 1960, no. 45 (illustrated; dated ‘ circa 1908’).  New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings by Mondrian: Early & Late Work in Progress , January - February 1962, no. 7 (dated ‘1908’).  Dallas, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Dallas Collects 20th Century Art , August - September 1962.  New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors by Piet Mondrian , November 1963, no. 13 (illustrated, dated ‘1908’).  New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Important European Paintings from Texas Private Collections , November - December 1964, no. 29 (illustrated).  Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, Piet Mondrian , January - February 1965, no. 22 (illustrated; dated ‘1908’); this exhibition later travelled to Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, March - April 1965; and Washington D.C., Gallery of Modern Art, May - June 1965.  Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects: Impressionist and Early Modern Masters , January - February 1978, no. 66 (illustrated; dated ‘ circa 1908’).  Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Impressionist and Modern Masters in Dallas: Monet to Mondrian , September - October 1989, no. 57 (dated ‘ circa 1908’).  New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, and Fort Worth, Modern Museum, Mondrian Flowers in American Collections , March - July 1991, no. 6 (dated ‘1920s’)

Literature:

C. von Wiegand, ‘The Meaning of Mondrian’, in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 2 , no. 8, fall 1943, p. 64. M. Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, Life and Work , New York, 1956, no. 164, p. 416 (illustrated fig. 130, p. 368; dated ‘ circa 1906’).  A. Mongan, ‘Mondrian’s Flowers’, in Miscellanea I.Q. van Regteren Altena , Amsterdam, 1969, p. 229 (illustrated fig. 4, p. 396; dated ‘1906-1908’).  M.G. Ottolenghi, L’opera completa di Mondrian , Milan, 1974, no. 156, p. 96 (dated ‘1907’).  D. Shapiro, Mondrian: Flowers , New York, 1991, p. 56 (illustrated; dated ‘ circa 1906-1908’).  J. Joosten, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911-1944 , vol. II, New York, 1998, no. C47, p. 477 (illustrated)

Provenance:

The artist's estate, until 1958. Harry Holtzman, New York. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (no. 8229), 1958-1962. James H. & Lilian B. Clark, Dallas, by whom acquired from the above in 1962; estate sale, Christie’s, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 338. Private collection, United States, by whom acquired at the above sale. Acquired from the above by the present owner