Live Auction 7858Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Lot 131

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Head of an Achterhoek Farm Woman

Closed24 June 2010

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GBP 6,000

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Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Head of an Achterhoek Farm Woman
signed 'PIET MONDRIAAN' (lower right)
charcoal and pencil on paper
13½ x 9 5/8 in. (34.3 x 24.6 cm.)
Executed in Achterhoek circa 1899

Anonymous sale, Auction Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 30 November 1959, lot 726.
(possibly) Contemporaries Art Gallery, New York.
Mrs J. Karp, Scarsdale, New York, between circa 1962 and 1982.
R. Feldman, New York, from 1994 to 2002.
Acquired in New York by the present owner in 2002.

Specialist note

This is a portrait of a peasant woman from the Achterhoek region, close to Mondrian's family's home in Winterswijk, to which he often returned during his studies at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. She can be identified by the simple round form of the bonnet she is wearing, which is typical of the area.