Oostzijdse Mill along the River Gein by Moonlight

Oostzijdse Mill along the River Gein by Moonlight

SK-A-4987

• signature: ‘PieT MONDRIAAN’
• inscription: ‘Als het doek slap wordt moeten de spielatjes bij a even er uit en dan spieën aangeslagen worden’

This landscape clearly reveals how indebted Mondrian was to the Hague School as a young artist. A few years earlier, he had copied Paul Gabriël’s In the Month of July in the Rijksmuseum (on view in this gallery). Although the compositions resemble each other, the general impression in each case is entirely different. Mondrian modified the lines and colours in order to create a non-realistic, decorative painting.

R. Meijer, Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2005) sept./okt., p. 7.

painter: Piet Mondriaan (signed by artist), Netherlands

c. 1903

olieverf op doek

height 63 cm x width 75.4 cm

Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds

purchase 2005

Public domain

…; acquired by Carl Christian and Ragnhild Kallenbach Pedersen, née Sarauw, Aabenraa (Denmark), probably in 1904;{Reynaerts/Tuijn 2006 p. 250.} by descent through the family till 2000;{According to the catalogue for the sale Kopenhagen (Bruun Rasmussen), 28 March 2000, no. 282.} anonymous sale, Kopenhagen (Bruun Rasmussen), 28 March 2000, no. 282, € 268,676; private collector, Denmark, 2000-2004;{Note RMA.} anonymous sale, Kopenhagen, (Bruun Rasmussen), 30 March 2004, no. 174, € 174,590;{Copy RKD.}…;from the dealer Simonis & Buunk, Ede, € 495,000, to the museum, 2005, with support from the de BankGiro Loterij and the Rijksmuseum Fonds

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• R. Meijer, Kunstkrant Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2005) sept./okt., p. 7.
• Mondriaan in het Rijksmuseum ; Zwerfkei of sleutelwerk? (hangmap)

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