Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • for sale The banks of the Seine
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
The banks of the Seine
oil on canvas 54.2 x 73.1 cm, signed l.l. and painted in 1931
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 475,000
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.