Artworks

In this painting, we see part of a living kitchen, where the sun falls in through the sash windows and casts strong shadows. The fireplace with hanging mantel dominates the room. In front of the hearth plate with tiles above it hangs a cast-iron kettle where a bent-over woman with a green skirt and white cap is working on clogs.

This painting shows a barge in a small waterway near Amsterdam. Depicted in the background on the left is the Royal Wax Candle Factory, which Piet Mondrian captured on a separate canvas the same year.

In this charcoal drawing, Mondrian senior’s fluid drawing style is somewhat recognizable: round shapes with soft contours and a strong light-dark contrast. Mondrian senior also drew himself; at the school where he taught, he was known for his beautiful blackboard and chalk drawings.

So schön diese Zeichnung auch ist, das Modellzeichnen war nicht Piets Stärke. Er bewarb sich mehrmals als Kandidat für den “Prix de Rome”, einen angesehenen Preis für Künstler, bei dem eine Studienreise nach Rom zu gewinnen war. Piet ist jedoch jedes Mal bei der Aufnahmeprüfung durchgefallen, weil seine Darstellung des menschlichen Körpers für die Jury nicht gut genug war.

This portrait of a woman is an etching, one of the few Mondrian ever created. In his last year of study at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Mondrian probably made an attempt to learn etching in order to appeal to a different market with prints and reproductions and to make a little more money. In the end, however, he hardly ever made etchings.

This drawing fits very well into the collection of peasant scenes that Mondrian often drew and painted. Nevertheless, it is not a peasant woman from the Achterhoek region. The drawing is clearly a study of Julien Dupré’s painting Au Pâturage. Presumably, however, Pete knew this painting only from a black and white reproduction.

In a classical landscape and in front of a fence of branches stands a little boy with a mischievous look. Piet Mondrian painted this portrait based on a photograph of Jantje.

At first glance, this painting does not appear to be by Piet Mondrian. The dense brushstrokes and sunny landscape may be more reminiscent of Van Gogh.