Field with Young Trees in the Foreground
Medium
oil on paper laid on board
Dimensions
unframed: 65.7 × 72 cm · framed: 82.5 × 97 × 5.8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Frank Stella
Accession Number
1971.220
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
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 t...