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AdmittedPiet Mondrian · 1920
This is Composition C — a painting by Mondrian, nineteen twenty. The piece is oil on canvas, about 60 by 61 centimeters.
Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 23 3/4 x 24" (60.3 x 61 cm) · Credit Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)
Hanging beside it in Gallery 513: Portrait of Mme Zamaron, Jean Cocteau
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Vertical and Diagonal Planes, 2x-2, Untitled, Composition, Head of a Woman, Visual Synthesis of the Idea: "War"
More by Piet Mondrian here: Composition with Red and Blue, Tableau no. 2 / Composition no. V, Composition with Color Planes 5, Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray, Composition in White, Black, and Red, Composition No. II, with Red and Blue
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.