Piet Mondriaan

Object category: painting
Support/medium: cardboard, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 65 x 34 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed lower left: Piet Mondriaan
inscription (document by form) in verso: Van Piet Mondriaan aan Arnold Saalborn, met sympathie voor den schrijver van Zonnesproke en De Schooier. Januari 1910
Welsh/Joosten 1998 erroneously lists the inscription as 'Van Piet Mondriaan aan Arnold Saalborn, met sympathie voor den schrijver van Zomersproken en De Schooier'. Information kindly provided by Rob Delvigne (e-mail 16 August 2017). According to information provided by Delvigne, Saalborn was the author of 'Zonnesproke', a short story in the periodical 'De Kunst', published 28 August 1909, and 'De Schooier', a short story in the 'Amsterdamsche studenten-almanak', published in 1910.

Current attribution: Piet Mondriaan

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: 1908 (1908)

date given by Welsh/Joosten 1998

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Dying sunflower II
English title: Dying sunflower II
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: flower piece, sunflower, death

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

related to
Piet Mondriaan, Dying sunflower I

Collection(s)

private collection Arnold Saalborn, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr Arnold Saalborn
Welsh/Joosten 1998 concludes that Louis and Arnold Saalborn are the same person, when in fact Arnold was Louis' brother. Mondrian's dedication points out that Arnold Saalborn was the owner of this work (information kindly provided by Rob Delvigne, e-mail 16 August 2017).
1910 - 1956 end date before 1956
private collection Sal Slijper, Blaricum , inv./cat.nr 780
1956 - 1971 start date by 1956
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague , inv./cat.nr 124-1971 / 0334282
S.B. Slijper bequest
1971 -

Exhibitions

Mondriaan - Sluijters - Spoor Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1909-01-06 - 1909-01-31 , (?)
Mondrian : Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, New Yorker Bilder Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Stuttgart (city) , 1980-12-06 - 1981-02-15 , no. 40
Mondrian : tekeningen, aquarellen, New Yorkse schilderijen Haags Gemeentemuseum , The Hague (city) , 1981-03-20 - 1981-05-31 , no. 40
Mondrian : drawings and watercolors Baltimore Museum of Art , Baltimore (Maryland) , 1981-07-12 - 1981-09-20 , no. 49
Piet Mondrian : de la figuration a l'abstraction : oeuvres du Haags Gemeentemuseum de La Haye Fondation Maeght , Saint-Paul-de-Vence , 1985-03-23 - 1985-05-16 , no. 18, listed as 'Soleil II, 1907-08'
Mondrian : from figuration to abstraction Fukuoka Art Museum , Fukuoka (city) , 1987-11-14 - 1987-12-20 , no. 98, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Mondrian : from figuration to abstraction Miyagi Museum of Art , Miyagi (prefecture) , 1987-09-05 - 1987-10-04 , no. 98, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Mondrian : from figuration to abstraction Museum of Modern Art Shiga , Otsu (Shiga) , 1987-10-10 - 1987-11-08 , no. 98, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Mondrian : from figuration to abstraction Seibu Museum of Art , Tokyo (city) , 1987-07-25 - 1987-08-31 , no. 98, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Mondrian : from figuration to abstraction Haags Gemeentemuseum , The Hague (city) , 1988-02-19 - 1988-05-29 , no. 98, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Kandinsky - Mondrian : dos caminos hacia la abstracción Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación "la Caixa" , Madrid (city, Spain) , 1994-09-16 - 1994-11-13 , no. 22, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Kandinsky - Mondrian : dos caminos hacia la abstracción Centre Cultural de la Fundación "la Caixa" , Barcelona (city) , 1994-11-24 - 1995-01-22 , no. 22, listed as 'Sunflower II, 1907-08'
Okkultismus und Avantgarde : von Munch bis Mondrian 1900-1915 Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main (city) , 1995-06-03 - 1995-08-20 , no. 238, listed as 'Sonnenblume II, 1907/08'
Il primo Mondrian : gli anni di Amsterdam : (con un'appendice sul periode cubista) Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Rome) , Rome , 1995-10-27 - 1996-01-21, listed as 'Girasole II, 1907-08'
Mondrian Huis ten Bosch , The Hague (city) , 1998-01-15 - 1998-04-05 , no. 15, listed as 'Sunflower II, c. 1907-08'
Mondrian Bunkamura Museum of Art , Tokyo (city) , 1998-04-11 - 1998-05-24 , no. 15, listed as 'Sunflower II, c. 1907-08'
Mondrian de 1892 à 1914 : les chemins de l'abstraction Musée d'Orsay , Paris , 2002-03-25 - 2002-07-14 , no. 74
Mondrian 1892-1914 : the path to abstraction Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth (Texas) , 2002-08-18 - 2002-12-12 , no. 74, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Mondrian Museo di Santa Giulia , Brescia (city) , 2006-10-28 - 2007-03-25 , no. 27, listed as 'Girasole morente II (A597), 1908'
Mondrian e o movimento De Stijl = Mondrian and the De Stijl movement Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , São Paulo , 2016-01-25 - 2016-04-04 , no. 16, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Mondrian e o movimento De Stijl = Mondrian and the De Stijl movement Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Brasilia (Distrito Federal) , 2016-04-20 - 2016-07-04 , no. 16, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Mondrian e o movimento De Stijl = Mondrian and the De Stijl movement Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Belo Horizonte , 2016-07-21 - 2016-09-26 , no. 16, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Mondrian e o movimento De Stijl = Mondrian and the De Stijl movement Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Rio de Janeiro , 2016-10-12 - 2017-01-09 , no. 16, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
figurative Mondrian Musée Marmottan Monet , Paris , 2019-09-12 - 2020-01-26 , p. 105, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Mondrian evolution Fondation Beyeler , Riehen (Switzerland) , 2022-06-05 - 2022-10-09 , p. 71, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Mondrian evolution Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K 20 , Düsseldorf (city) , 2022-10-28 - 2023-02-12 , p. 71, listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'

Literature

Seuphor 1956 , 201 (203) / 155 , listed as 'Soleil mourant / Dying Sunflower, c. 1907-08'
Albertini Ottolenghi 1974 , no. 172 , listed as 'Girasole morente, c. 107-08'
Blok 1974 , no. 147 , listed as 'Zonnebloem II / Sunflower II, 1907-08'
De Bodt/De Haan/Pijbes 1998A , p. 14
Welsh/Joosten 1998 , p. 398, A597 , listed as 'Dying Sunflower II, 1908'
Janssen/Adriaans-Boukens 2008 , p. 124-128 , listed as 'Stervende zonnebloem II, 1908'
Tempel 2011 , p. 74 , listed as 'Girasole morente II, 1908'
Janssen 2013 , p. 105, no. 95 , listed as 'Stervende zonnebloem II, 1908'
Van Paaschen 2017 , p. 37 , listed as 'Stervende zonnebloem I, 1908'

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001211598)

Project: Piet Mondrian: digital catalogue raisonné

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