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[..but he had] a record with the music of the dwarfes on it, and quite often play it.

— Piet Mondrian

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Mondrian's short quotes are referring to the Disney animation-movie 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), which he visited early 1938 with his brother Carel. His brother he named in the postcards "Sneezy".

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