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Piet Mondrian
Mill in Sunlight
1908
Oil on canvas
114 x 87 cm (44 7/8 x 30 1/4 in)
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague


Piet Mondrian
Composition A: Composition with Black, Red, Gray, Yellow, and Blue
1920
Oil on canvas
91.5 x 92 cm (36 x 36 1/4 in)
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome


Piet Mondrian
New York City
1941-42
Oil on canvas
119 x 114 cm (46 7/8 x 44 7/8 in)
Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Piet Mondrian (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter and an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. Despite being well-known, often-parodied, and even trivialized, Mondrian's paintings exhibit a complexity that belie their apparent simplicity. He is best known for his non-representational paintings (which he called compositions), consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow, blue, or black, separated by thick, black, rectilinear lines. They are the result of a stylistic evolution that occurred over the course of nearly thirty years, and which continued beyond that point to the end of his life.