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February 2010

Moderns in the Hague

by Karen Wilkin

On “Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan” at the Geementsmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Piet Mondrian, Apple Tree in Flower (1912) ©  Piet Mondriaan: 2009 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust c/o hcr International, Warrenton, Virginia

Towards the end of 1911, Piet Mondrian—or as he then spelled it, “Mondriaan,” in the Dutch way—showed six paintings at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in the first exhibition of a recently formed progressive artists’ association, the Moderne Kunst Kring. He also helped to judge submissions to the show, as a member of the group and as an artist with a growing reputation for adventurous work, at least by the standards ...

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Karen Wilkin is an editor at The Hudson Review and on the faculty at the New York Studio School. 


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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 February 2010, on page 41

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