Art Moderne et Contemporain Day Auction

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Property from a Private French Collection I Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Française

Piet Mondrian

Portrait d'un vieillard

Lot Closed

April 24, 04:22 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private French Collection

Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944

Portrait d'un vieillard


signed P. MONDRIAAN. (upper left); inscribed 9/7 1826. (lower left); inscribed 8/12 1898. (lower right)

oil on canvas

50,3 x 40,2 cm; 19¾ x 15⅞ in.

Executed circa 1899.

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Provenant d'une Collection Particulière Française

Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944

Portrait d'un vieillard


signé P. MONDRIAAN. (en haut à gauche); inscrit 9/7 1826. (en bas à gauche); inscrit 8/12 1898. (en bas à droite)

huile sur toile

50,3 x 40,2 cm; 19¾ x 15⅞ in.

Exécuté vers 1899.

Mr. & Mrs. Seuphor, Paris (by 1970)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, Paris, 1956, no. 628 (dated circa 1895)

Maria Grazia Ottolenghi, L'opera completa di Piet Mondrian, Milan, 1974, no. 18, p. 88 (dated circa 1898)

Robert Welsh, Piet Mondrian's early career: the "naturalistic" periods, New York, 1977, no. 22, illustrated (dated 1898)

Robert Welsh & Joop M. Joosten, Piet Mondrian. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (until early 1911), Anvers, 1998, vol. I, no. A112, p. 201, illustrated

Marty Bax, Complete Mondrian, Aldershot, 2001, p. 305, illustrated (dated circa 1899)

Paris, musée national de l'Orangerie, Mondrian, 1969, no. 1, p. 43 (dated 1898)

Alès-en-Cévennes, musée bibliothèque Pierre-André Benoît, Michel Seuphor, la traversée du siècle, 1991-92, no. 25, p. 62