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With great humor and sagacity, the Fondation Beyeler has placed two portraits of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) on the cover of its catalog designed as a work of art by graphic designer Irma Boom.
On the front, he is young, bearded, hairy like a bohemian painter, brown, as in his twilight charcoal self-portraits of 1908, dark as his paintings of emaciated and morbid sunflowers.
He looks like Brancusi.
On the back, he is a mature man, already very bald, with thin pursed lips, round and transparent glasses like ice.
He poses in full light near the high easel, in his studio in New York, in 1942. He looks like a banker who knows everything about life or an uncompromising churchman.
The two Piet Mondrians look the camera straight in the eye, without an ounce of doubt.
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