Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue by Piet Mondrian Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm Botanical motifs ground the figure

Botanical motifs ground the figure in a lush

yet the composition has a visual balance that lifts it well beyond the purely academic

one of the most highly regarded Nanga (literati) painters of the Edo period

It is modest in subject and assured in execution

Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue by Piet Mondrian Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm Botanical motifs ground the figureThe vast red field in this composition occupies more than half the canvas, a bold move even for Mondrian. Against it, a bluish gray rectangle and smaller accents of yellow and blue hold their ground through position and proportion rather than scale. Black lines frame each zone with the discipline of a grid that never becomes mechanical the intervals vary just enough to feel alive. It is one of Mondrian's most spatially ambitious works in the