Annual Meeting, Lecture, and Luncheon

Nancy J. Troy, PhD- co-author, Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian and Pop Art

2023-2024 Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art, Emerita, Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University, Stanford, CA presents:

Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art.

Yves Saint Laurent’s Fall/Winter 1965 couture collection included a series of cocktail dresses based on the imagery of Piet Mondrian’s classic abstract paintings that inaugurated the fashion designer’s lifelong dialogue with art.  Given the obvious alignment of those dresses with the Dutch artist’s work, it is surprising that Saint Laurent had never seen an original work by Mondrian.  Troy’s lecture will explore the popular embrace of Mondrian’s iconic style inspired by Saint Laurent’s dresses, and seen as well in paintings by prominent Pop painters of the period, including Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, and Andy Warhol.

🖋️ A book signing will follow the lecture.