Piet Mondrian, Landscape at Loosduinen
Prasse Collection, 1972.213 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Piet Mondrian

Landscape at Loosduinen

1905

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
black chalk (extended with water in places), watercolor, and gouache; framing line in graphite (bottom edge)
Dimensions
25.8 × 35.9 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-212404

Although Mondrian is best known for his De Stijl paintings and as a founder of modern, abstract art, he began as a landscape and figurative artist. Between 1897 and 1907, he executed about fifty landscapes each year, comprising nearly half of his entire oeuvre. In 1905, a large exhibition of Vincent van Gogh’s work was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The spindly, bare trees, low horizon, and the lone peasant in Landscape at Loosduinen reveal the influence of the Dutch master upon Mondrian. The drawing’s degree of finish suggests that it was either done on commission or intended for…

Provenance

Prasse Collection, 1972.213

Registry history

  • 1905 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings

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