Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian
Dutch, 1872–1944
1937–42
An oil-on-canvas painting that reduces imagery to a grid of black lines and a few primary-color rectangles to explore pure balance and harmony.
You first notice the calm of large white planes interrupted by bold, slightly irregular black bars and a few vivid red, blue, and yellow blocks, creating a spare, architectural rhythm across the surface.
A defining example of De Stijl modernism, it crystallizes Mondrian’s radical reduction to vertical and horizontal lines and primary colors—a visual language that profoundly influenced modern art, design, and architecture.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
23 3/4 x 21 7/8" (60.3 x 55.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Accession
638.1967
Palette
Exhibitions
