Fernand Léger - 'Contrasts of forms' 1913

 

Frantisek Kupka - "Time passes" 1921

“My whole self is not just my body. After my death I will be sailing far away, in the realm of space.” - Quote František Kupka (CZ,1871-1957)

Le temps passe > Oil on canvas - 107 x 107 cm - Signed: Kupka

Collection: Centre Pompidou France

 

"La Vigne Rouge" by Vincent van Gogh - Arles 1888

The Belgian painter Anna Boch, whose brother Eugène Boch was a friend of Vincent Van Gogh, paid 400 franc for “La Vigne rouge” (The Red Vineyard) on an exhibition of Les XX in Brussels. It was the only painting by Van Gogh known that was sold during his lifetime.

Location: Poesjkinmuseum, Moskou – oil on canvas, 75 x 93 cm.

"Composition No.8" by Piet Mondriaan - 1913

Jan Toorop, artist and friend of Piet Mondriaan, spoke about cubism as a 'striving for abstraction', a striving 'more and more towards spirituality', away from forms of nature. But Mondriaan saw something completely different, an opening into something new.
Mondriaan came to the conclusion he had to go to Paris if he wanted to know more. He needed direct contact with the Cubists, to achieve a kind of work in which he could accomplish his own ideas.

In 1911 he ends his rent-contract, broke up his engagement and stores his paintings with acquaintances and friends, sells as much work as possible and leaves the community of Amsterdam. At the end of January 1912 he moved to Paris. His famous oilpainting 'No.8' was made the following year. (Text source: In new perspective / Hans Janssen)

Painting No.4 / Composition No.8
Piet Mondriaan [1872-1944]
height 95 cm width 80 cm
1913 - oil on canvas
Location: Gemeentemuseum Denhaag: 0334317

http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/en/collection/item/1042

"La-roche-guyon" by Georges Braque - 1909

“The subject is not the object; it is the unity, the lyricism which stems entirely from the means employed.”

> quote Georges Braque/Thoughts on Painting

Style: Analytical Cubism  - Technique: oil on canvas - Dimensions: 92 x 73 cm
Location: Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands