Church Tower in Zeeland

Although Mondrian is famous for his geometric abstract paintings, earlier in his career, like many of his fellow painters in the early 20th century, he painted landscapes. In 1911 Mondrian was vacationing in the Netherlands seaside town of Domburg, where his paintings of sand dunes and churches blended cubist shapes with fauvist colour. In this bright portrait of one of the Zeeland province's many church towers, the sunset fire to the brick façade, and an evening shadow creeps up from below.