(Amersfoort 1872–1944 New York)
A landscape near Uden, 1904–5 ca., signed P. Mondrian, oil on canvas laid down on board, 44.5 x 52.5 cm, framed, (AR)

Provenance:
Mr. Borgts Collection
J.P. Smid, Amsterdam (label on the reverse)
Christie’s Amsterdam, Twentieth Century Art - The Lindeboom Collection of early works by Piet Mondrian and from various sources, 1 December 1999, lot 182
European Private Collection

Exhibition:
Regina, Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery Edmonton, Edmonton Art Gallery, Piet Mondrian and the Hague School of landscape painting, October - December 1969, exh. cat. no 65.
‘S-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabants Museum, Piet Mondrian, Een jaar in Brabant 1904–05, 11 November 1989- 14 January 1990, exh. cat. no. 33
Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacion La Caixa, Kandinsky-Mondrian. Dos caminos hacia la Abstraccion, 16 September 1994- 13 November 1994, exh. cat. no. 10; travelling exhibition to Barcelona, (label on the reverse)

Literature:
Robert Welsh, ‘Piet Mondrian. landscape before mid 1908’, in the exh. cat.: Piet Mondrian and the Hague School, Regina 1965, p. 43 with ill.
M. Tappeniers, ‘Best, daar maak ik een ding van’ in the exh. cat.: Mondrian Werk in Brabant,’s- Hertogenbosch 1989, p. 6, no. 33 with ill.
Albert van den Briel, Piet Mondrian/’t is alles een groote eenheid, Bert, Haarlem 1988, p. 99 with ill.
Robert Welsh, Joop Joosten, Piet Mondrian. catalogue raisonné, Vol I, Blaricum, 1998, p. 303, no. A. 378 with ill.

This is one of the few known landscape paintings by Mondrian from a Brabant farmland without the inclusion of cattle. In mood and time of the day this painting foreshadows the later “late evening landscapes” which gradually came to dominate Mondrian’s landscape production in the three or four years to follow
(Welsh, 1989)