Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The distinctive black lines of the grid and brightly colored squares by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian are among the most exciting paintings of abstract art.
Currently, one of his most treasured paintings is up for auction and is expected to reach more than $ 50 million, according to Sosby’s auction house.
The painting entitled “Composition No. 2”, which presents Mondrian’s artistic characteristics, will be auctioned in Sosby on 14 November.
The auction house has reported the work, which includes squares in blue, red, white and yellow, as “one of the artist’s most important and most valuable works of art, offered for sale”.
Julien Does, Head of Impressionist and Modern Art in the Americas at Sotheby’s, said Thursday in a statement: “Pitt Mondrian’s major works are rarely offered up for auction, many of which are housed in the world’s most famous museum collections.”
He added that the opportunity to get a painting of this quality is “in fact an event that only happens once in a generation”.
The painting, painted by Mondrian in 1930, was previously auctioned in 1983.
Sosby indicated that the artwork is one of only three showing the dominant red square in the upper right.
“Composition n. 2” embodies everything that can be asked of Mondrian’s style. It is an essential painting for the development of modern art and is a symbol of the enduring appeal of a modern aesthetic, characterized by a calm sense of compositional balance and spatial order, and a remarkable origin, said Dawes.
Mondrian moved to Paris in early 1912, after being impressed with the early Cubist works by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
There he began experimenting with the abstract and fragmented method of representing reality, increasingly using only vertical and horizontal lines.
In the year of his famous painting, American sculptor Alexander Calder visited Mondrian’s studio in Paris and claimed the walls were “painted white, divided by black lines and brightly colored rectangles like his paintings,” according to the Press release.
In the statement, Oliver Parker, Sosby’s Europe Headquarters, said: “There are few artists who have claimed such a bold statement in the history of modern art as Piet Mondrian, whose reticular style of abstract painting is a truly unique achievement in history. of painting. “
“The work is charged with electricity which reflects the energy of painting in Europe at the time, and remains as vibrant as when it was painted nearly 100 years ago,” he added.
It is worth noting that Mondrian’s unique geometric style and modern approach preceded the rise of abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s.
