EditorialFrieze, Block-printed paper, Frieze of drapery, urns, classic-revival architectural ornament. Beige ground divided into horizontal bandings by brown and blue molding, horizontal pointed elipses with floral and foliate ornamentation, and groupings of pa...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, metallic (beaten gold on vellum wrapped around linen core) Technique: two integrated plain weave structures (lampas), with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocading), Addorsed dolphins in metal threads on a green gr...
EditorialComposition in Oval with Color Planes 1, 1914. Oil on canvas, 107.6 x 78.8 cm. Made two years after Mondrian moved from Holland to Paris, the geometry of this composition is directly based on sketches of partially demolished buildings, with exposed...
EditorialPoem for Hanwen, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1493, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper, 6 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (16.5 x 47 cm), Calligraphy, Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427?1509), Shen Zhou modeled his writing after the runni...