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Look at the dark mass of the trees and its reflection in the water below, and notice how the long flat line of the bank splits the sheet into two mirrored parts.
Mondrian drew this farm under its large trees in charcoal on blue paper, and it is close to a painting of the same subject in The Hague. He seldom dated his work before 1908, and in these years he made bold experiments alongside plainer views he could sell, because money was short. The Mondrian scholar Robert Welsh placed the sheet around 1905 from its style.
Fabricated charcoal on blue laid paper · 46.8 × 62.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · De Stijl
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- Museum title
- Landzicht Farm: Compositional Study
- Artist
- Piet Mondrian Dutch, 1872-1944
- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- Fabricated charcoal on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 46.8 × 62.3 cm (18 7/16 × 24 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Edward E. Ayer Endowment Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.