Kimbell Art Museum

Featuring over 100 paintings and drawings of quietly breathtaking beauty, this fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the first exhibition devoted to Piet Mondrian’s early career, on view at the Kimbell Art Museum in the fall of 2002. It takes the reader on a journey from Mondrian’s student years in Holland, working as a painter of romantic landscapes, to his emergence as an artist of international renown in cosmopolitan pre-World War I Paris. Tracing Mondrian’s passage from naturalism to abstraction, to his own “True Vision of Reality,” this catalogue reveals how one of the greatest painters of the 20th century evolved toward abstraction while drawing upon pictorial traditions long established in the Netherlands.