Geinrust Farm: Close Frontal View
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944)
c. 1905–06
- Medium
- Pastel and charcoal on buff wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 47.5 × 60 cm (18 3/4 × 23 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Brewer Woods Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Because Piet Mondrian depicted this specific farm no fewer than 13 times, determining when he actually made this drawing is difficult. Prior to 1908, he rarely dated his work; moreover, his artistic evolution is hard to trace chronologically since he made two kinds of work simultaneously: formally experimental landscapes and—forced by his meager finances to appeal to buyers—naturalistic scenes. Based on stylistic similarities to other works of that time, Robert Welsh, a scholar of Mondrian’s early work, dated the sheet to around 1905-06.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
