Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1
Piet Mondrian
Dutch, 1872–1944
1914
An oil on canvas from 1914 in which Mondrian arranges rectangular color planes and bold black lines within an oval to translate rhythm and spiritual balance into an abstract composition.
You first notice an oval 'window' filled with interlocking pastel pinks, sky blues, and ochres, stitched together by a network of charcoal-black lines that make the surface read like a luminous, abstract city map or stained glass.
A key transitional work that synthesizes Cubist fragmentation with Mondrian’s emerging drive toward pure geometric abstraction, prefiguring the strict Neoplastic vocabulary that reshaped modern painting.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
42 3/8 x 31" (107.6 x 78.8 cm)
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Accession
14.1950
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