Apple Tree, Pointillist Version
1908–09 · Oil on composition board · Dallas Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- Piet Mondrian (1872–1944)
- Year
- 1908–09
- Medium
- Oil on composition board
- Original size
- 56.8 × 74.9 cm
- Collection
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
A dark blue apple tree spreads its branches across the canvas against a ground of short strokes and dots in turquoise, orange, ochre and pink that radiate around the crown like light or wind. The trunk and branches are painted in heavy, curving strokes, and the colours are pure and unblended, laid side by side. Mondrian painted it in 1908–09, when summers on the Zeeland coast at Domburg and the example of Neo-Impressionist divisionism led him to brighter colour and a broken touch. Trees became a central subject for him over the following years, and the sequence from works like this through The Red Tree and The Gray Tree to the flowering apple trees of 1912 is the classic path by which he moved from landscape into abstraction. The painting is in the Dallas Museum of Art.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A dark blue apple tree against radiating dots of turquoise, orange and pink, for a living room, dining room or kitchen at 32×24 in natural wood. A sage, sand or soft teal wall; it pairs with Field with Young Trees in the Foreground.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1908–09)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, kitchen, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 32×24. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
