“I very much like Arp's things. I consider him the only 'pure' artist after Neo/Plasticism.”

—  Piet Mondrian

In a letter to his friend architect Alfred Roth, 19 November 1931; as quoted in Mondrian, - The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 204
1930's

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