Piet Mondriaan artwork • painting • previously for sale View of the river Seine
Piet Mondriaan
Amersfoort 1872-1944 New York (Verenigde Staten)
1872-1944
View of the river Seine
oil on canvas 54.2 x 73.1 cm, signed l.l. and painted in 1931
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.