Portrait of a Lady

Oil Painting on panel. Handsigned. Simon Maris was a close friend of Piet Mondriaan. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Arts of Antwerp. He then spent some time in Brussels and made study trips to Paris and Italy. In 1900 he settled in Amsterdam. In 1903 he traveled with his friend Piet Mondriaan for a few months to Spain. Together with Mondrian and Arnold Marc Gorter he would regularly paint in the following years on the Gein River, where he also drew Piet Mondrian's portrait in 1906. Maris was a well-known figure in Amsterdam artist circles around 1900. He died in 1935 at the age of 61. His work is among the collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Dordrechts Museum, the Drents Museum in Assen, the Groninger Museum, the Municipal Museum of The Hague and the Museum Arnhem. Hand-Signed. Comes with original frame, which has been damaged.