Piet Mondriaan

Illustration number 1001235283
Dimensions: 398x650 pixels
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Object information

Object category

Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

double sided art work (back)

Piet Mondriaan, Portret van Martha Frieda de Fries (1893-...) (double sided art work (front))

Support/medium

paper, brown and balck chalk, charcoal, conté

Shape/dimensions

rectangle (portrait format) 629 x 384 mm

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.: c. 1921-1935 (1906 - 1935)

Given dates in literature vary from c. 1906-1908 to c. 1908-1909 (see Welsh/Joosten 1998), Smith College Museum of Art dates the drawing between c. 1921 and 1935.

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Chrysanthemum
English title: Chrysanthemum
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: botanical representation, chrysanthemum

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Wobine (Bien) de Sitter, Domburg (Veere)
1925 - 1957 dates uncertain
private collection Eleanor Kanegis, Boston (Massachusetts)
1957 - 1963 start date uncertain
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton (Massachusetts) , inv./cat.nr 1963.51
purchased
1963 -

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Recent accessions Smith College Museum of Art , Northampton (Massachusetts) , 1963-09-04 - 1963-10-18
Twentieth century drawings Mount Holyoke College Art Museum , South Hadley (Massachusetts) , 1968-02-04 - 1968-02-21
Drawing : a reinvestigation Joseloff Gallery , Hartford (Connecticut) , 1975-02-16 - 1975-03-03, listed as 'Chrysanthemum'
Drawn lines : modern European and American drawings Mead Art Gallery , Amherst (Massachusetts) , 1990-05-24 - 1990-07-01

Literature

Shapiro/Himmel 1991 , p. 10 , listed as 'Chrysanthemum, c. 1906-08'
Welsh/Joosten 1998 , p. 481, C63 , listed as 'Chrysanthemum (verso of C29 Study for Portrait of Friedel M. Cabos-de Fries, 1924)'

Correspondence: Letter to J.J.P. Oud, dated November 10 (1925) ?
Letter from W. de Sitter to E. Kangeis, undated (1957)

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001235283)

Project: Piet Mondrian: digital catalogue raisonné
Mondrian Edition project

External links: Website Smith College Museum of Art

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Creation date: 2016-06-27; Last modified date: 2021-06-02

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