“I went to his studio and instinctively tried to capture in my photographs the spirt of his paintings. He simplified, simplified, simplified. The studio with its symmetry dictated the composition."
~ Andre Kertész
(1894-1985)
Yes, without doubt this is one of the masterpieces of 20th Century modernist photography. However many times one has seen it reproduced in books when you hold a beautiful, signed, physical print in your hands you understand why it is regarded as such. It is a “tour de force” of masterful composition and deeply moving because it is perhaps the greatest portrait of an artist ever taken by a photographic artist because although you never see his face. Mondrian is in front of you and his essence is completely captured. It is an image that goes beyond time and space and is transcendent.
