Spring Idyll by Piet Mondriaan
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Spring Idyll 1900 - 1901

Piet Mondriaan

CanvasOil paintPaint
 75 ⨯ 64 cm
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Studio 2000 Art Gallery

  • About the artwork
    Provenance: obtained ca. 1940 in Amsterdam by mrs. I.J. Bantzinger-Wiedenhoff; April 12th 1972, Auction house Sotheby’s, Londen: nr. 38; April 10th 1989 Auction house Sotheby’s, Amsterdam: nr. 342c; 1990 Private collection, Belgium.
  • About the artist

    Mondrian was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors.

    Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911 marked the beginning of a period of profound change. He encountered experiments in Cubism and with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name (Mondriaan)

    Before Mondrian made the typically abstract compositions for which he became famous, he drew and painted landscapes, figures, flowers and still-lifes in a naturalist style. Between 1895 and 1908, he gradually detached himself from pictorial representation and experimented with colour, composition and a simplifying of forms. This ultimately led to depicting nature in abstract vertical and horizontal lines and planes in primary colours.

    He died in New York in 1944.

     

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Artwork details

Category
Modern PaintingsPaintings
Subject
SpringHumanChildTreeNatureChristian religious sceneChristianityFlower
Style
19th Century ArtSymbolism (late 19th Century)
Material & Technique
CanvasOil paintPaint
Colour
PinkBlue