Composition XX  1920

Oil on canvas, 92 x 71 cm [br]Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Description: Executed in 1920, Composition XX , which has belonged to the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection since 1979 and is among the works kept by the painter’s widow Nelly van Doesburg after his early death in 1931, follows to the letter the geometric abstraction advocated in De Stijl. During this period Va...