68 Piet Mondrian, Composition No.VI, Composition 9, 1914, oil on canvas,...

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Description: Composition No. VI, Composition 9

TitleComposition No. VI, Composition 9

Creator nameMondrian, Piet

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1914

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions95.5 × 68 cm

LocationFondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland

Accession numberInv.89.8

SubjectsArt, AbstractSquare in artBlue in artDe Stijl (Art movement)

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Allusions to Ocean Park

John Elderfield

Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (Volume 1: Essays and References)

The large, olive-green wedge that drops from the upper left edge of Ocean Park #31 (1970; fig. 70) very quietly stirs a memory, eventually summoning up a grass-green wedge that rises at the left side of Henri Matisse’s Piano Lesson (1916; fig. 71). Then, looking around, we see...

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John Elderfield

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00300.4

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Chapter subject tags:Artists--United States--BiographyPainting, Abstract--United StatesPost-impressionism (Art)Art, American--20th centuryPainting, Modern--20th century

2. The City, Squared: Gare Montparnasse

Ara H. Merjian

Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris

~Penned in the third person, Giorgio de Chirico’s autobiographical note from 1919 recalls his early paintings from Paris as having been inspired by various Italian cities:

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Ara H. Merjian

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.73-119

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00059.006

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Chapter subject tags:Metaphysics in artCities and towns in artArchitecture in artShades and shadows in art

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