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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.122
People
Piet Mondrian, Dutch (Amersfoort, The Netherlands 1872 - 1944 New York, N.Y.)
Title
Farmstead
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape (Twente Farm Buildings Surrounded by Trees IV)
Former Title: Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1906-1907
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296855

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal, black, red, and white chalk on tan wove paper, mounted to paper, then mounted to canvas and stretched around a stretcher
Dimensions
96.1 x 141.1 cm (37 13/16 x 55 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Back of stretcher (per letter Miriam Stewart 1998): [Printed:] Pitt & Scott Ltd, Paris; [Handwritten:] Frumkin / of 308-62
  • label: Per letter Miriam Stewart 1998 (file): [Printed:] Pitt & Scott Ltd, Paris; [handwritten:] Paysage / 4 / 5 / 62 / Quai des / Grands / Augustins
  • label: Per letter Miriam Stewart 1998 (file): [Printed:] Allan Stone Galleries / 48 E. 86th Street / New York 28, New York

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, sold; to J. S. F. Esser, to; Carla Esser, Paris. Allan Frumkin, Chicago and New York. James Goodman, Buffalo, New York. [Allan Stone Galleries, New York, New York], partial gift, partial purchase; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Contemporary Art Fund and Gift of Allan Stone, Class of 1954
Copyright
© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.122
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Patrick J. Kelleher, College Museum Notes, Art Journal (1964), XXIII/3, p. 240, 12 (only reproduction)
  • Emily S. Rauh, Recent Accessions. Piet Mondrian Landscape, Fogg Art Museum Newsletter (1964), 1, no. 4, May 1864
  • Michel Seuphor, Piet Mondrian, sa vie, son oeuvre, Flammarion (Paris, 1970), nr. 209 of 'list of all Known Works'
  • Robert Welsh, Piet Mondrian's early career: the 'naturalistic' periods, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, 1977), p. 100, fig. 165
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 301, p. 257, repr.
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 19
  • Joop M. Joosten and Robert Welsh, Piet Mondrian: Catalogue Raisonné, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1998), cat. no. A541, p. 373, repr.
  • Marty Bax, Complete Mondrian, Lund Humphries (Burlington, VT, 2001), p. 418, repr.
  • Marjan van Heteren, The Mondrian Mystery, exh. cat., Waanders Uitgevers and Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar (Zwolle and Alkmaar, The Netherlands, 2018), pp. 14-20, fig. 15, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

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