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Property from a Notable North Carolina Collection

Piet Mondrian

Women Doing the Wash

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Notable North Carolina Collection 

Piet Mondrian

1872 - 1944


Women Doing the Wash

signed Pieter Mondriaan (lower left)

oil on canvas laid down on board

11 ⅜ by 9 ⅜ in.

28.8 by 23.8 cm. 

Executed circa 1894-96. 

Sonneveld Collection, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Auction Mak Van Waay, Amsterdam, 16 March 1954, lot 115 

Private Collection, Amsterdam (acquired at the above sale) 

Sotheby's, London, 20 June 2006, lot 306 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

The Art Gallery of Toronto; Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Hague, Kunstmuseum, Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944, 1966, no. 9, p. 37, illustrated (dated 1896)

Paris, Musée d'Orsay and Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, Mondrian 1892-1914: The Path to Abstraction, 2002, no. 6, p. 40, illustrated in color (titled Women Washing)

Albertini Ottolenghi and Maria Grazia, L'Opera completa di Mondrian, Milan, 1974, no. 12 (titled Lavandaie and dated circa 1895)

Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian's Early Career, Princeton, 1965, no. 42, n.p., illustrated 

Robert P. Welsh, Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalistic Works (Until Early 1911), New York, 1998, no. A29, p. 22, illustrated in color

Marjory Degen, Katjuscha Otte, Ingelies Vermeulen, Marty Bax, Cees W. de Jong and Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondriaan: leven en werk, Amsterdam, 2015, p. 40, illustrated in color; p. 282, illustrated