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Artist Jan Andriesse (1950-2021) 

Title 1:1 Replica Piet Mondriaan, Compositie met gele lijnen, 1933 

Year 2011 

Material Acrylic on linen 

About the work 

This painting is by Jan Andriesse, but could just as easily have been by Piet Mondrian. Andriesse created a copy of Mondrian’s Compositie met gele lijnen (1933) in order to understand him better. He admired Mondrian’s unerring sense of proportion and colour. In this work, the yellow stripes pop from the white background. This kind of contrast is very difficult to create with just white and yellow paint. 

About the artist

Jan Andriesse was fascinated by water, colours and light. From his studio on a converted houseboat, he studied how light reflected off the surface of the water. He transposed these and other natural phenomena into drawings, watercolours and paintings. He studied at the Vrije Academie in The Hague (1968-1970) and worked as an artist-in-residence at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem (1970-1972). Ateliers ’63 was the forerunner of the independent artists' institute De Ateliers, in Amsterdam. 

In the collection

The acquisition date of this work was 11 November 2011, a date that must have appealed to Andriesse, a maths fanatic. A month earlier, Andriesse had a solo exhibition at De Nederlandsche Bank. He created this replica especially for this exhibition. Things had thus come full circle, as De Nederlandsche Bank was instrumental in the return of Mondrian's world-famous work Victory Boogie Woogie to the Netherlands. 

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