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Untitled composition

Untitled composition
 1917-1920

Medium
watercolour, gouache and brown chalk
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1970
© Bart van der Leck/Pictoright, Amsterdam. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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Gallery location
Not on display
 

About this work

Bart van der Leck was a painter, architect and graphic designer who, together with Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, co-founded the Dutch art movement De Stijl in 1917. Van der Leck’s work, like that of Mondrian, moved towards an abstract idiom that was characterised by flat colour and fragmented, minimalist forms. An individualist with strong opinions, van der Leck began to find the quest for absolute abstraction too restrictive and refused to sign the De Stijl manifesto in 1918. By 1920 he broke all ties with the movement and returned to using abstracted figurative elements in his work.

Artwork Details

Medium
watercolour, gouache and brown chalk
Measurements
39.1 × 25.4 cm irreg. (sheet)
Accession Number
P96-1970
Department
International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1970
© Bart van der Leck/Pictoright, Amsterdam. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Abstract Art
Subjects (specific)
blue (colour) brown (colour) brush strokes earth (colour) red (colour) white (colour)
Movements
De Stijl Neo-Plasticism

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