Piet Mondrian / Landscape / about 1907

Piet Mondrian
Landscape
about 1907
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Creator Name: Mondrian, Piet
Creator Nationality: European; Dutch
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1872 - 1944
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Piet Mondrian
Title: Landscape
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1905
Creation End Date: 1909
Creation Date: about 1907
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: pastel and black chalk on tan wove paper
Dimensions: H.18 x W.22-1/2 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 89.103
Credit Line: Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
Copyright: ? Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, c/o Beeldrecht / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

While apparently unrelated to his later De Stijl paintings of black and white squares and primary colors, this pastel shows the importance that detailed observation and the landscape held for the young Mondrian. During these early years, he often traveled to small farmsteads outside of Amsterdam to paint the watery landscape and towering trees that define the Dutch lowlands. Like Monet, Mondrian often worked in series, painting the same group of trees and farm buildings from different perspectives. Untitled (Landscape) introduces the viewer to a side of Mondrian that few are familiar with, but that proves his thorough mastery of naturalism.

The work is signed with the original spelling of the artist's name-Mondriaan-which appears on the artist's canvases up into the early 1910s.

AMICA ID: MIA_.89.103
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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