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Chrysanthemum
Piet Mondrian1906-1942
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Fascinated by the complex structure of chrysanthemums, Mondrian painted these delicate flowers throughout his career. This single, frontal blossom recalls the stylized chrysanthemums of Japanese prints. Mondrian added the initials and date near the bottom edge sometime after painting the flower. Since he returned to this subject repeatedly, even during his later years, this painting may have been produced as late as 1942, the year Mondrian exhibited it in New York.
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- Title: Chrysanthemum
- Creator: Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944)
- Date Created: 1906-1942
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 52.1 x 49.2 x 5.1 cm (20 1/2 x 19 3/8 x 2 in.); Unframed: 41.5 x 38.5 cm (16 5/16 x 15 3/16 in.); Former: 52.1 x 49.2 x 4.5 cm (20 1/2 x 19 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Valentine Gallery, New York, NY, 1947, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.), Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.[1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.38
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: signed lower left: P M [inscribed lower right: 1906 (added later?)]
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Netherlands, 20th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1958.38
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