Live Auction 3139Fashion
A 'MONDRIAN' DRESS
Lot 45 THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN

A 'MONDRIAN' DRESS

YVES SAINT LAURENT, 1966

Closed1 December 2011

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GBP 30,000

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A 'MONDRIAN' DRESS
YVES SAINT LAURENT, 1966
the wool dress divided into four quadrants, the upper right hand of buttercup yellow, the dividing frame of jet black
labelled Yves Saint Laurent, stamped 10576

Madame La Baronne Van Zuylen is said to have given this dress to Madame la Baronne Guy de Rothschild.

Specialist note

The 'Mondrian' dress is probably Yves Saint Laurent's most iconic dress, known the world over for its modern and revolutionary lines. Yves Saint Laurent said of the painter who inspired this dress: 'Mondrian is purity and one can go no further in purity in painting'.