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Apple Tree
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872–1944)
about 1912
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Charcoal
Dimensions
Sight: 46.4 × 61.6 cm (18 1/4 × 24 1/4 in.)
Framed: 63.8 × 79.1 × 3.8 cm (25 1/8 × 31 1/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Framed: 63.8 × 79.1 × 3.8 cm (25 1/8 × 31 1/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Betty Bartlett McAndrew
Accession Number1986.496
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
DescriptionDating: Between 1912 and 1914 Mondrian made a series of abstract trees in Paris. (Blotkamp 1994, p. 70) (see Flowering Appletree 1912, Joosten 1994 p. 126).
Signed in graphite at lower left: P. Mondriaan. Apparently Mondrian didn't sign his work with ‘Mondriaan' after 1912.
Signed in graphite at lower left: P. Mondriaan. Apparently Mondrian didn't sign his work with ‘Mondriaan' after 1912.
Marks
PDP Watermark Type: M B M
Ingres / d'Arches France
Ingres / d'Arches France
InscriptionsSigned in graphite at lower left: P. MONDRIAAN
Provenance1955, sold by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to Betty Bartlett McAndrew (b. 1906 - d. 1986), Wellesley, MA; 1986, bequest of Betty Bartlett McAndrew to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 17, 1986)
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