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Landscape at Loosduinen

1905

Piet Mondrian

(Dutch, 1872–1944)
Culture
Netherlands, early 20th Century
Medium
black chalk (extended with water in places), watercolor, and gouache; framing line in graphite (bottom edge)
Support
Cream(3) wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 25.8 x 35.9 cm (10 3/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1972.213
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Description

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 exhibition and sale.
A horizontally oriented chalk and watercolor drawing depicts a landscape in muted earth tones. On the left, brief dark strokes form a figure with a long tool walking past a cottage with a red roof. A rustic wooden bridge spans the center. To the right, thick-trunked trees with bare, reaching branches line a curving path. Thin, wispy lines fill the background, suggesting a distant forest beneath the flat, pale sky.

Landscape at Loosduinen

1905

Piet Mondrian

(Dutch, 1872–1944)
Netherlands, early 20th Century

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