A Rose a Day No.16

The signature on this watercolour may come as a surprise: P. Mondriaan.

Yes, that’s right, that’s the same painter of coloured squares and rectangles. Mondrian painted works like this to make a bit of money, as the clientele for his ‘Neo-Plasticism’ was very small.

Here are some more Mondrian roses:

There are no doubt those who would have preferred Mondrian had stuck to roses. But perhaps he did. For we can imagine his more familiar works as aerial views of beds of red and yellow roses (the blue is water). Although as Mondrian is Dutch, we should probably infer tulips……..