Sailboat moored in a river

By 1912 this river view belonged to Lucas Barend Lindeboom, an Amsterdam collector of the young Mondrian, and it stayed in the Lindeboom family for most of the century. In 1922, when the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam held a retrospective for Mondrian's 50th birthday, it hung there under a homelier title, Aan de Vaart, which means by the waterway. Later it spent years on loan to the Rijksmuseum, until the family sold it at Christie's in Amsterdam in December 1999. Its date has moved around. Exhibitions in Madrid, Barcelona and Rome in the mid-1990s showed it as a view of the Amstel from around 1902, while the catalogue raisonné published in 1998 placed it about 1907 and gave it the plain descriptive name it carries now. The subject is simply a sailboat at anchor on still water, beside a dark bank of trees, both doubled in reflection. Mondrian signed it P. Mondriaan, in the Dutch spelling he later dropped, at the lower right.