Piet Mondrian was the leading artist of the 'De Stijl' (the style) movement, a group of Dutch artists who produced strictly geometric, abstract art. Mondrian's early work painted from nature became increasingly abstract. For example a series of studies of trees and their branches made from 1909 to 1913 evolved into a criss-cross of lines. However it was when he became a member of the Theosophist group that he began to paint the grid paintings with which he is associated. Theosophists saw existence in terms of harmony between male and female, positive and negative, horizontal and vertical. Mondrian's paintings embody this sense of balance.
Note: Many pieces by Piet Mondrian have been omitted from this series as they are deemed to be held in copyright.
For a broader biography see part 1 also. For earlier works by Mondrian, see parts 1 - 7 also.
This is part 8 of 9-part series on the works of Piet Mondrian:
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| 1925 Tableau No. III, with Red, Black, Yellow, Blue and Grey oil on canvas 49.2 x 49.2 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1925 Tableau No. VII, with Blue, Yellow, Black, and Red oil on canvas 48.5 x 43.5 cm Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany |
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| 1925 Tableau No. X, with Yellow, Black, Red, and Blue oil on canvas 49 x 42.5 cm Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany |
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| 1925c Chrysanthemum watercolour on paper 34 x 24 cm Private Collection |
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| 1926 Composition II, with Red ( aka Composition in a Square ) oil on canvas 50.2 x 51.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1926 Composition No. 1: Lozenge with Two Lines and Blue oil on canvas 84.9 x 85 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1926 Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Grey oil on canvas 117.2 x 115.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1927 Composition No. III, with Red, Yellow, and Blue oil on canvas 61 x 40 cm Stedelijk Musem, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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| 1927 Composition with Black, Red, and Grey oil on canvas 56 x 56 cm Private Collection |
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| 1927 Composition with Red and Blue oil on canvas 40 x 52 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1927 Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue oil on canvas 38 x 35 cm |
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| 1927 Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue oil on canvas 51.1 x 51.1 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
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| 1927 Composition with Yellow and Red oil on canvas 52 x 35 c Private Collection |
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| 1927 Composition: No. I, with Black, Yellow, and Blue oil on canvas 73.5 x 54 cm Private Collection |
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| 1928 Composition with Red, Black, Blue, and Yellow oil on canvas 45 x 45 cm Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany |
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| 1928 Large Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow oil on canvas-board 123 x 80 cm Private Collection |
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| 1928 Textuel colour lithograph 61.6 x 43.1 cm Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA © Mondrian / Holtzman Trust |
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| 1929 Composition No.1, with Red and Black oil on canvas 52.3 x 52.3 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1929 Composition No. I, with Yellow and Blue oil on canvas 40.1 x 32.1 cm National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan |
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| 1929 Composition No. II, with Red and Blue oil on canvas 40.3 x 32.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1929 Composition No. II, with Yellow and Blue oil on canvas 52 x 52 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| 1929 Composition No. III, with Red, Blue, Yellow and Black oil on canvas in artist's original frame 50.3 x 50.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1929 Composition No. IV / Fox-trot A: Lozenge with Three Lines oil on canvas 78.2 x 78.2 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| 1929 Composition No. IV, with Red, Blue, and Yellow oil on canvas 52 x 51.5 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
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| 1929 Composition oil on canvas in artist's frame 45.1 x 45.3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2017 Mondrian / Holtzman Trust |
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| 1929 Composition with Yellow, Blue, Black and Light Blue oil on canvas 50.6 x 50.3 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| 1929 Fox Trot B, with Black, Red, Blue, and Yellow oil on canvas 45.4 x 45.4 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| 1930 Composition No. 1: Lozenge with Four Lines oil on canvas 75.2 x 75.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2007 Mondrian / Holtzman Trust |
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| 1930 Composition No. I, with Yellow and Light Grey oil on canvas 50.5 x 50.5 cm Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland |
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| 1930 Composition No. II / Composition I / Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow oil on canvas 51 x 51 cm The Fukuoka City Bank Ltd. Collection, Fukuoka, Japan |
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| 1930 Study for Composition No. II / Composition I / Composition in Red, Yellow and Blue gouache on board 28.6 x 22.9 cm Triton Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| 1930 Composition No. II, with Blue and Yellow oil on canvas 50.5 x 50.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1930 Composition with Yellow Patch oil on canvas 46 x 46.5 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany |
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| 1931 Composition in Colours / Composition No. I with Red and Blue oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| 1931 Composition No. I, with Red oil on canvas 82.5 x 54.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 Composition with Blue and Yellow oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm Private Collection |
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| 1931 Lozenge Composition with Two Lines oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
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| 1932 Composition A, with Red and Blue oil on canvas 55 x 55 cm Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland |
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| 1932 Composition B, with Double Line and Yellow and Grey oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Composition C, with Grey and Red oil on canvas 50.2 x 50.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1932 Composition with Blue and Yellow oil on canvas 41.4 x 33.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1932 Composition with Blue and Yellow oil on canvas 45.4 x 45.4 cm Denver Art Museum, Colorado |
1932 Composition with Double Line and Yellow
This i one of the earliest of Mondrian's so-called 'Tram-line' paintings. Before 1932 he had used single lines but he began pairing then in order to achieve a sense of optical movement. He also began to extend the coloured areas over the edge of the canvas.
This painting formerly belonged to the artist Winifred Nicholson, who acquired it directly from Mondrian.
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| 1932 Composition with Double Line and Yellow oil on canvas 45.3 x 45.3 cm National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, UK |
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| 1932 Composition with Yellow and Blue oil on canvas 55.5 x 55.3 cm Beyeler Collection, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1932 Composition C, with Grey and Red oil on canvas 50.2 x 50.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1933 Composition with Double Line and Yellow and Blue oil on canvas 41 x 33.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1933 Composition with Red and Blue oil on canvas 41.2 x 33.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1933 Lozenge Composition with Four Yellow Lines oil on canvas 90.2 x 79.9 cm Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands |
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| 1934 Composition with Double Line ( unfinished ) charcoal and oil on canvas 57 x 55 cm Private Collection |
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| 1934 Composition with Double Line and Blue ( unfinished ) oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm Museum Moderner Kunst / Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria |
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| 1934 Composition with Double Lines and Yellow ( unfinished ) oil on canvas 55.5 x 54.5 cm Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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| 1934 Composition with Red ( unfinished ) charcoal and oil on canvas 80.9 x 63 cm Private Collection |