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Piet Mondrian / Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue

Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue

1920 · Oil on canvas

Black grid lines divide the canvas into blocks of red, grey, yellow, and blue, an early, still slightly irregular version of Mondrian's mature abstract style.

MovementDDe Stijl
LocationRome, Italy
Genreabstract art
Dimensions91.5 × 92 cm

Why it matters

Mondrian's Composition A arranges black lines and planes of red, grey, yellow and blue in a geometric abstraction.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1919.
  • It is also called Large Composition.
  • It is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

Based on the French Wikipedia article Composition A : Composition avec noir, rouge, gris, jaune et bleu (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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