Live Auction 3048Modern Art
Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
Lot 23

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)

Summer night

Closed17 June 2014

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EUR 55,500

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Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
Summer night
signed 'Piet Mondriaan' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32.5 x 44.5 cm.
Painted circa 1906-07

K. Legat, The Hague (on loan to the Gemeentemuseum The Hague 1955-63). Jon N. Streep, Amsterdam/New York.
Allen Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1965.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 12 November 1987, lot 335.
Anonymous sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 7 December 1994, lot 249.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 6 December 2006, lot 14.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present lot is a preliminary oil study for the large painting Summer night (Welsh A.523) from 1907, which is in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.