Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale A haystack with willow trees
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
A haystack with willow trees
oil on canvas 63.3 x 51.9 cm, signed l.r. and painted between 1897-1898
This painting was previously for sale.
Before Mondrian made the abstract compositions with 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 exact 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.