Tournée du Chat Noir Size:S - 30 x 40cm Here the forms feel slightly

Here the forms feel slightly looser

It is nature seen through the lens of contemporary abstraction

each block and curve staking its claim across the composition

The scale and boldness of the blue plane gives the work a monumental quality rare even among Mondrian's compositions of this period

The matte surface prevents any reflective interference

Tournée du Chat Noir Size:S - 30 x 40cm Here the forms feel slightlyTourne du Chat Noir is one of the defining images of fin de sicle Paris. Thophile Alexandre Steinlen's 1896 lithographic poster places a commanding black cat against a warm amber ground, its silhouette bold and hieratic. The composition owes as much to Japanese woodblock design as to the emerging Art Nouveau movement flat planes of colour, confident contour, and a graphic economy that still reads as modern. It was made to be seen from a distance, and