Piet Mondriaan

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (landscape format) 60 x 85 cm

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

inscription in verso: "Bloeiende boomen" | P. Mondrian No. 4 | Paris. (4 st) | rue du Départ 26.'
sticker with a decorative border, inscribed by Mondrian (Welsh/Joosten 1998)
label in verso
A. Robinot, Emballeur des Beaux-Arts. 50, rue Vaneau. Paris, with inscription: 'Amsterdam | 139 | Mondrian' (Welsh/Joosten 1998)

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.: 1912 (1912)

date given by Welsh/Joosten 1998

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Bloeiende bomen (authentiek)
English title: Flowering trees
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: landscape (genre), tree, abstraction

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

based on

Collection(s)

private collection Wobine (Bien) de Sitter, Domburg (Veere)
1912 -
private collection Mies Elout-Drabbe, Domburg (Veere)
1912 - 1949 starting date uncertain; end date around 1949
art dealer G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, The Hague
1949 - 1958 possibly with this art dealer by 1949
private collection Herbert and Nanette Rothschild, New York City
1958 - 1969
private collection Judith Rothschild, New York City
1969 - 1993
The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York City
1993 -

Exhibitions

Moderne Kunstkring (1912) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1912-10-06 - 1912-11-07 , no. 159, listed as 'Arbres en fleurs [repr.]'
Piet Mondriaan Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1946-11-06 - 1946-12-16 , no. 55, listed as ' "bloeiende boom N.4", 1911'
Moderne Nederlandse en Franse kunst Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar , The Hague (city) , 1949-07-23 - 1949-08-31 , no. 21, listed as 'Bloeiende boomgaard, 1911-12'
Moderne Nederlandse en Franse kunst (kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar) Pictura Zutphen , Zutphen (place) , 1949-10-22 - 1949-11-04 , no. 32, listed as 'Bloeiende bomen, 1912'
Piet Mondrian [New York, 1951] Sidney Janis Gallery , New York City , 1951-02-05 - 1951-03-17 , no. 8, listed as 'Trees in Bloom, 1912'
Mondriaan Haags Gemeentemuseum , The Hague (city) , 1955-02-10 - 1955-04-12 , no. 75, listed as 'Bloeiende bomen'
The image lost and found Institute of Contemporary Art [Boston] , Boston (Massachusetts) , 1960-05 - 1960-08 , no. 10, listed as 'Flowering Trees, 1912'
Herbert and Nannette Rothschild collection : an exhibition in celebration of the seventy-fifh anniversary Brown University , Providence (Rhode Island) , 1966-10-07 - 1966-11-06 , no. 108, listed as 'Trees in Bloom, 1912'
Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944 : centennial exhibition Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York City , 1971-10-08 - 1971-12-12 , no. 51, listed as 'Trees in Bloom, 1912'
Piet Mondrian at the Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York City , 1976-11-19 - 1977-04-07 , no. 8, listed as 'Trees in Bloom, 1912'
Piet Mondrian at the Guggenheim Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York City , 1979-01-18 - 1979-02-25, listed as 'Trees in Bloom, 1912'
Futurism and the international Avant-Garde Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) , 1980-10-26 - 1981-01-04 , no. 107, listed as 'Trees in Bloom, 1912'
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 [Den Haag, 1994] Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , The Hague (city) , 1994-12-18 - 1995-04-30 , no. 36
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 National Gallery of Art [Washington] , Washington (D.C.) , 1995-06-11 - 1995-09-04 , no. 36, listed as 'Bloeiende bomen (Flowering Trees), 1912'
Piet Mondriaan 1872-1944 Museum of Modern Art , New York City , 1995-10-01 - 1996-01-23 , no. 36, listed as 'Bloeiende bomen (Flowering Trees), 1912'
Encounters with modern art : the reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothchild : works from the Rothchild family collections National Gallery of Art [Washington] , Washington (D.C.) , 1996-09-22 - 1997-01-26 , no. 59, listed as 'Flowering Trees, 1912'
Encounters with modern art : the reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothchild : works from the Rothchild family collections Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) , 1997-03-02 - 1997-05-11 , no. 59, listed as 'Flowering Trees, 1912'
Cézanne-Picasso-Mondriaan in nieuw perspectief Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , The Hague (city) , 2009-10-17 - 2010-01-24 , no. 63, listed as 'Bloeiende bomen, 1912, particuliere collectie'
Mondrian / De Stijl Centre Pompidou , Paris , 2010-12-01 - 2011-03-21 , p. 169, listed as 'Bloeiende bomen [arbres en fleur], 1912, Collection particulière, en depôt à long terme au Gemeentemuseum, La Haye'

Literature

Seuphor 1956 , 367 (390) / 178 , listed as 'Arbres en fleur / Flowering Trees, 1912'
Albertini Ottolenghi 1974 , no. 256 , listed as 'Alberi in fiore, 1912'
Deicher/Doelman 1994 , p. 35 , listed as 'Bloeiende bomen, 1912'
Dijkhuis/De Vreede/Jonker 1994 , p. 21 , listed as 'Bloeiende boom, 1912'
Welsh/Joosten 1998 , p. 211-212, B20 , listed as 'Bloeiende bomen (Flowering Trees), 1912'
Joosten/Janssen 2002 , p. 180 , listed as 'Flowering Trees, Paris, September 1912'
Otte et al. 2015 , p. 175 , listed as 'Bloeiende bomen, 1912'
De Jong et al. 2017 , p. 121 , listed as 'Bloeiende bomen, 1912'

Correspondence: Letter to Elout-Drabbe, dated 'Maandagmiddag' (September 1912)
Letter to Slijper, dated March 8, 1924 (regarding the article by Hana)
archiefreferentie: Photograph Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, C3955 (1946)

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001213667)

Project: Piet Mondrian: digital catalogue raisonné
Mondrian Edition project

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