SHEAFFER TARGA MONDRIAN LIMITED EDITION SET
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The Mondrian Limited Edition Sheaffer Targa was produced in 1994 on the 50th anniversary of the dutch artist Piet Mondrian's death. Limited to 500 sets of fountain pen and ballpen, these pens are finished in primary blue, a colour often used by Mondrian in his famous grid style abstract paintings.

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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands on the 7th of March 1872. He entered the Academy of fine art in Amsterdam in 1892, already a qualified primary school teacher he continued his teaching while practicing painting. His early work consisted mainly of landscapes of his native country, depicting windmills, fields and rivers.

In 1906 he changed the spelling of his surname to Mondrian, during this same period a series of his canvases showed an inkling of the abstraction that would shape his later work. He moved to Paris in 1912 and the influence of Cubism marked a turning point in Mondrian's career. He move back to Holland during World War I and didn't move back to Paris for 5 years, during in which time his work developed towards pure abstraction, the curved lines and objects of nature disappeared from his paintings.

In his ground breaking paintings of the 1920s, he strictly limited his colour palette to black, white, and the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue. These Iconic painting's with a few horizontal and vertical black lines and select blocks of colour, became Mondrian's best known works.

He moved to London for two years before settling in New York City in 1940 , he continued painting and in his later work he added coloured and double lines and finally the famous black grid was replaced with lines of coloured squares. Mondrian was devoted to his work and remained unmarried all his life, he died of pneumonia in 1944, aged 71.

 
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Piet Mondrian Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930
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The pen set comes complete with the large generic Sheaffer book style gift box, embossed with Mondrian's signature.

 
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The pens have Mondrian's signature on the side of each cap, etched in a gold colour to match the pens trim.
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Both pens are number on the back of the cap ornament.
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The set is accompanied by a certificate which is numbered to match the pens .

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THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE WORDING ON THE CERTIFICATE .
.Sheaffer Pen congratulates you warmly with the fact that you've become the proud owner of this numbered Sheaffer Piet Mondrian writing set, on the occasion of the 50-th year of death of this world-famous artist has produced. Both the fountain pen as the pen is on the cap with the following unique number: 421 This targa set (fountain pen with 14 carat solid gold inlaid nib, converter and 5 cartridges and pen) is executed in the primary color blue that mondriaan wielded in his work. The cap is hand-drawing by an engraving permanently applied. The originally Sheaffer jeweler's mark, with more than 80 years experience in producing high-quality writing instruments, has also participated in this special issue are 'white dot' covenants that gives you a lifetime warranty.
 
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