by
PIET MONDRIAAN
THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN EXACT REPRODUCTION
OF THE ORIGINAL PAINTING
"VICTORY BOOGIE WOOGIE" BY PIET MONDRIAAN
MADE BY
GODEFRIDUS G. THISSEN
In the beginning of the 20th century Piet Mondriaan
(1872 - 1944)
would become one of the most famous artists of his
time.
He was born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and lived
and worked in
Amsterdam, The Hague, Paris and New York.
Between 1942 and 1944 he worked on a painting that
would become
his most famous work of art:
"Victory Boogie Woogie"
He was still working on this painting when he died
in New York in 1944
and the unfinished work was sold to an American collector
by his descendants.
After his death the Gemeente Museum (the Community
Museum)
in The Hague, The Netherlands,
acquired many of his paintings for a permanent exposition
of his works.
Unfortunately his masterpiece, his last creation,
remained unobtainable.
During the last decade of this century
the Gemeente Museum expanded and was completely restored.
At the grand opening of this beautiful new museum
in 1998
by her Majesty Queen Beatrix,
the Nederlandse Bank (Bank of The Netherlands)
- who had been able to buy Mondriaan's masterpiece
from its American owner
for the sum of $ 40,000,000 (forty million American
Dollars) -
very generously gave it to the Museum as a present.
A big admirer of Mondriaan, Godefridus G. Thissen
traveled to The Hague to see this painting
and - in awe - he decided then and there
to make the perfect reproduction on canvas in oil,
in the exact size 127 x 127 cm, vertical axis 179
cm.
This painting
signed
"Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie, copy by Godefridus
G. Thissen"
is now for sale for $ 40,000 (forty thousand US Dollars).
A photograph of this reproduction is available for $ 25
For more information please contact
e-mail: thissen@outlawnet.com
or
send your fax to: 541 - 549 - 1253 (USA)
