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Piet Mondrian Farmhouse with Laundry ca. 1897 oil on board Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Piet Mondrian Self Portrait ca. 1900 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Piet Mondrian Summer, Dune in Zeeland 1910 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Still Life with Ginger Pot I 1911-12 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Still Life with Ginger Pot II 1911-12 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition: Trees I 1912 oil on canvas Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition no. 7 1913 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Ocean 1 1913-14 gouache, ink and charcoal on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Piet Mondrian Ocean 5 1914 gouache and charcoal on paper, mounted on panel Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition 8 1914 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition 1916 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition with Grid 1918 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition no. 1 1930 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Piet Mondrian Fox Trot 1930 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Piet Mondrian Composition with Red 1939 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Piet Mondrian Painting no. 9 1942 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
More or Less
Nature copies Art, said Oscar Wilde,
Out therefore with the old inheritance,
Rooms so overfurnished the heart sinks,
Moulding and fringe, high ozone-whitened panes,
Precious woods and mirror cataract,
The million doodad species catching dust.
In with lack of clutter, starkly styled,
Only the fittest vertebrates and plants,
Cactus habitat and goldfish bowl,
Little to smarten up our costly prefab
Unless a holograph of (say) Einstein –
Bespectacled, white-maned, a breathing sphinx –
Prints ever-thinning air with the myopic
Simplicity of those who live here still,
Their sad know-how, their fingertip control.
– James Merrill (1995)