Composition with Red and Blue

Piet Mondrian · 1933

Here we have Composition with Red and Blue — a painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, nineteen thirty-three. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 16 1/4 x 13 1/8" (41.2 x 33.3 cm) · Credit The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 412: Anonymous Sculpture, Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: 2x-2, Vertical and Diagonal Planes, Untitled, Composition, Head of a Woman, Neoconcrete Relief

More by Piet Mondrian here: 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, Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray