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Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray

Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray

Piet Mondrian
Dutch, 1872–1944
1926
An oil on canvas in which Mondrian, working in his neoplastic mode, pares painting down to four black bands and white-gray planes to investigate balance and pure abstraction.
Seen as a diamond, the work reads as a luminous white field pierced by four flat black strokes whose crisp edges, subtle brush texture, and off‑white corner give the quiet geometry a taut, almost architectural presence.
This painting marks Mondrian’s radical reduction of form to verticals and horizontals—an experiment in equilibrium that helped define modernist abstraction and anticipate later minimalist ideas.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46 1/8 × 45 1/2" (117.2 × 115.6 cm)
Classification
Credit
Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
Accession
179.1953
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