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Field with Young Trees in the Foreground

c. 1907
(Dutch, 1872–1944)
Measurements
Framed: 82.5 x 97 x 5.8 cm (32 1/2 x 38 3/16 x 2 5/16 in.); Unframed: 65.7 x 72 cm (25 7/8 x 28 3/8 in.)
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Mondrian was a prolific writer drawn to spiritual studies and he believed that art and philosophy were deeply interconnected.

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This painting depicts a field around the hamlet of Oele in the eastern Netherlands, where Mondrian lived during the summer of 1907. The evocative mood created by the trees silhouetted against a twilight sky suggests that Mondrian’s search for spirituality was present before he began painting completely abstract or non-objective compositions in 1916. Guided by readings in metaphysics and philosophy, Mondrian sought to achieve a higher spiritual reality in his paintings, which eventually led him to eliminate all representational elements in favor of a style of pure geometric abstraction.
A horizontally oriented oil painting with broad brushstrokes depicts a landscape under a heavy gray sky. In the foreground, thin, dark tree trunks rise vertically, their dark green foliage obscuring portions of the sky. A light green field stretches across the middle ground toward a dark band of distant land. To the right, a sliver of pale pink light glows on the horizon, breaking through the dense, atmospheric gray.

Field with Young Trees in the Foreground

c. 1907

Piet Mondrian

(Dutch, 1872–1944)
Netherlands

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