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Piet Mondrian Most Popular Paintings

The 25 artworks by Piet Mondrian our visitors ask for most, ranked by popularity and presented one by one, with the specification and the price of each hand-painted reproduction.

Edition 2026 · 25 artworks Each artwork painted to order
Linen canvas · Certificate of authenticity · Delivered worldwide Piet Mondrian · 1872 – 1944

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

1930 · original 86 x 66 cm

Discover Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition with Red, Blue & Yellow.’ A cornerstone of abstract art, this Neoplastic masterpiece embodies geometric harmony & timeless design.

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Popularity: No. 1 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Broadway Boogie Woogie

1943 · original 127 x 127 cm

Own a masterpiece! Piet Mondrian’s *Broadway Boogie Woogie* (1943) – a vibrant abstraction of NYC energy. Geometric, dynamic & perfect for modern interiors.

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Popularity: No. 2 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue

Explore Piet Mondrian’s iconic ‘Composition with Red, Yellow & Blue’. A masterpiece of De Stijl, featuring bold geometry & primary colors. Perfect for art lovers & collectors.

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Popularity: No. 3 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Study for Blue Apple Tree Series

original 31 x 38 cm

Explore Piet Mondrian’s ‘Study for Blue Apple Tree Series’! A dynamic abstract expressionist piece featuring bold colors & organic forms. Discover a captivating work of modern art.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 4 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Experience Piet Mondrian's 'Avond (Evening): The Red Tree'! This iconic 1908 masterpiece showcases his transition to abstraction with vibrant red, blue, and a balanced composition – a cornerstone of modern art.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 5 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

1930 · Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich · original 45 x 45 cm

Explore Piet Mondrian’s iconic ‘Composition with Red, Yellow & Blue.’ A masterpiece of De Stijl, featuring bold geometry & primary colors. Perfect for art lovers & collectors.

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Popularity: No. 6 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition

1921 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, new york · original 50 x 50 cm

Experience Piet Mondrian's 'Composition' (1921). This Neo-Plastic masterpiece features bold red & blue rectangles, pioneering geometric abstraction and a universal aesthetic language. A key work in modern art history.

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Popularity: No. 7 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Still life with vase of spices II

Explore Piet Mondrian's groundbreaking Still Life with Vase of Spices II – a pivotal piece showcasing his masterful embrace of cubism and pioneering exploration of geometric abstraction. Order a stunning replica today!

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Popularity: No. 8 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Stammer Mill with Streaked Sky

1907 · Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Stammer Mill with Streaked Sky by Piet Mondrian (1907). A captivating oil painting showcasing Neoplastic principles & Dutch landscapes. Own a piece of modern art history!

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Popularity: No. 9 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Tableau I Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray

Explore Piet Mondrian's 'Tableau I Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray,' a pivotal work in the development of abstract art and Neoplasticism. Discover its geometric harmony and lasting influence.

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Popularity: No. 10 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Quadro nº 2

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Popularity: No. 11 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue

1935 · original 56 x 52 cm

Experience the rhythmic harmony of Piet Mondrian's 1935 Neoplastic masterpiece featuring bold primary colors and a precise geometric grid that invites you to bring this iconic piece of abstract modernism into your collection.

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Popularity: No. 12 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition A

1923

Explore Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition A,’ a seminal Neoplastic masterpiece! Discover its grid-like structure, primary colors & influence on modern art. #Mondrian #Neoplasticism #AbstractArt

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Popularity: No. 13 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Apple Blossom

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Popularity: No. 14 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Red Tree

1908 · original 70 x 99 cm

Piet Mondrian

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Popularity: No. 15 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Lozenge Composition with Red, Black,Blue and Yellow

1925 · original 77 x 77 cm

Discover Piet Mondrian’s ‘Lozenge Composition.’ A seminal work of Neoplasticism featuring bold primary colors & geometric forms. Explore this iconic 1925 masterpiece!

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Popularity: No. 16 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Cuadro II

Experience Piet Mondrian's 'Cuadro II,' a cornerstone of Neoplasticism! This iconic painting showcases bold geometric forms and primary colors, embodying De Stijl’s revolutionary vision.

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Popularity: No. 17 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue

1942 · original 72 x 69 cm

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Popularity: No. 18 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition with Red. Black. Blue. Yellow and Grey

Experience Piet Mondrian's 'Composition with Red, Black, Blue, Yellow & Grey'! A cornerstone of Neoplasticism, this grid-based masterpiece showcases vibrant colors and geometric harmony – a revolutionary work of modern art.

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Popularity: No. 19 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Stammer Mill with Streaked Sky

1907 · Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City · original 74 x 96 cm

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Popularity: No. 20 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition No. 12 with Blue

1942 · National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa · original 62 x 60 cm

Composition No. 12 with Blue is a seminal work by Piet Mondrian, embodying the principles of De Stijl movement. Its minimalist grid structure—dominated by thick black lines intersecting rectangular shapes—captures the essence of abstract art and visual harmony.

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Popularity: No. 21 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Spring Sun (Lentezon). Castle Ruin. Brederode

Explore Piet Mondrian's "Spring Sun (Lentezon). Castle Ruin. Brederode," an early Neoplastic masterpiece blending Impressionism and Post-Impressionism with vibrant colors and geometric abstraction.

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Popularity: No. 22 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition with Red. Yellow and Blue 1

Explore Piet Mondrian's iconic 'Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue 1,' a masterpiece of Neoplasticism. Discover the harmony of geometric forms & primary colors that define modern art.

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Popularity: No. 23 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Diagonal Composition

Explore Piet Mondrian’s ‘Diagonal Composition,’ a seminal De Stijl masterpiece. Admire its geometric abstraction, bold colors & balanced grid – a cornerstone of 20th-century art.

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Popularity: No. 24 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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Composition X

Museum Folkwang, Essen

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Popularity: No. 25 of 692 artworks by Piet Mondrian
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The artist

Piet Mondrian

1872 – 1944

Quick facts

Creative periodsearly period
Lifespan72 years
Room fitliving room
Top 3 worksComposition with Red, Blue and Yellow, Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
Museums on APSScottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum Folkwang, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art periodModern
Emotional tonetranquil
Color intensitymonochromatic, balanced

Biography

The Life and Identity of Piet Mondrian

The man who would reshape the visual language of the twentieth century began his life as Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, Jr. He was born on March 7, 1872, in Amersfoort, Netherlands. For years, he operated under this formal name, but a shift occurs in 1911 when he adopts the name Piet Mondrian. He is a Dutch painter and art theoretician, a man whose intellect sought to map the very structures of existence through paint and theory.

His life moves from the quietude of the Netherlands to the frantic energy of the global stage. The final chapter of his life unfolds in New York, New York, U.S. He dies there on February 1, 1944, from pneumonia. The transition from the naturalistic landscapes of his youth to the rigid, rhythmic grids of his later years marks a total transformation of purpose.

Early Life, Family and Training

Amersfoort, Netherlands, provides the setting for his beginnings. He is born into a strict Protestant family. His father, Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan, Sr., works as a head teacher and amateur draftsman. This environment is shaped by a disciplined, religious structure. Art is present in the household through his uncle, Frits Mondriaan, a landscape painter. The boy draws from an early age, guided by these familial connections to the visual arts.

The path toward professional training is direct. By 1892, he is already qualified as a drawing teacher. He moves to Amsterdam to enroll at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, where he remains from 1892 to 1897. The academy provides the technical foundation for his developing vision. During this formative period, he also joins the art society Kunstliefde in Utrecht.

The Dutch Period and Impressionist Roots

The Dutch landscape provides the initial canvas. In the quietude of the Netherlands, Mondrian captures the heavy clouds and wind-swept mills of his surroundings. These early works are naturalistic, focusing on the rivers and polders that define the region. He works within the traditions of the Hague School and Dutch Impressionism, utilizing a palette that reflects the soft, muted light of the Dutch countryside. In pieces like The Red Mill, the subject remains clearly recognizable, rooted in the physical reality of the land.

A shift begins in 1908. As he engages with the theosophical movement, a search for a hidden, universal order starts to pull at his brushstrokes. He moves away from mere representation. He experiments with the structured dots of Pointillism and the bold, non-naturalistic colors of Fauvism. The focus shifts from the surface of the object to its underlying structure. By 1909, his presence in the Dutch art scene is established through a major exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

The Red Mill
Evening (Avond) (1908)

The Parisian Awakening and Cubism

Paris, 1912. The city pulses with a new, aggressive energy. Mondrian arrives from the Netherlands, shedding the old Dutch spelling of his name to become Mondrian. He enters a landscape where the traditional rules of representation are being dismantled. The encounter with Cubism changes the trajectory of his work. He watches the experiments of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, observing how they deconstruct objects into geometric components. The focus shifts from what the eye sees to how the eye perceives structure. He begins to move away from the depiction of reality, seeking instead to analyze form through planes and lines.

This period marks a radical departure from his earlier landscapes. He is no longer interested in the soft light of the Dutch countryside. Instead, he develops an independent abstract style, stripping away the accidental to find a more fundamental visual language. The transition is not a sudden leap but a steady, disciplined reduction. He is searching for a way to express the underlying structure of existence through pure abstraction. The organic curves of his youth are replaced by the tension of intersecting planes.

Composition in gray-blue, 1913

The Birth of Neoplasticism and De Stijl

The search for a universal truth reaches a breaking point. By 1917, the deconstruction of form has moved beyond the mere fragmentation of objects. Mondrian co-founds the De Stijl movement alongside Theo van Doesburg, seeking a visual language that transcends the accidental details of nature. He moves toward a non-representational form he terms Neoplasticism. This is a radical departure from the tangible. He argues that art should be higher than reality, existing in a realm of pure, spiritual order rather than mirroring the chaotic surface of the physical world.

The visual vocabulary becomes absolute. The artist strips away all curves and diagonals, leaving only the tension of horizontal and vertical lines. Color is no longer used to describe light or shadow on a landscape; instead, it is reduced to its most essential components. He limits his palette to the three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. To balance these, he employs the three primary values: black, white, and gray. The result is a rigid, geometric equilibrium that seeks to manifest a hidden, structural harmony.

1917: Composition in colour A
1925: Lozenge Composition with Red, Black, Blue and Yellow
1930: Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

New York and the Final Rhythm

The war forces a final movement. After a brief period in London in 1938, Mondrian arrives in New York in October 1940. The rigid, geometric order of his previous years meets the frantic, syncopated energy of Manhattan. He joins the American Abstract Artists, finding a new environment for his evolving vision. The city's pulse is everywhere. It is in the grid of the streets and the staccato rhythm of jazz music. This urban dynamism begins to break his strict adherence to solid blocks of color.

The lines begin to dance. In these final years, the heavy black bars of his earlier Neoplasticism give way to something more fragmented and rhythmic. The compositions lose their static weight, replaced by a flickering movement that mirrors the city's own electrical life. He captures the essence of the metropolis not through its buildings, but through its tempo. This shift is most evident in his late works, where the grid transforms into a series of small, pulsing squares of color.

Broadway Boogie Woogie, about 1943

Technique and Artistic Style

The canvas becomes a site of absolute reduction. Mondrian strips away the accidental details of the physical world to reach for a structural truth. His technique relies on precise, clean lines and flat areas of color that refuse to suggest depth or texture. There is no brushwork to distract the eye, only the intersection of form and space. He seeks to express universal truths through pure abstraction, moving past the imitation of nature toward a visual language of essential order.

This order is governed by a rigid geometry. In his mature period, the vocabulary is limited to the simplest combinations of straight lines and right angles. He operates within a strict framework of horizontal and vertical directions. This commitment to the grid is so absolute that he famously avoids the use of diagonal lines, viewing them as a deviation from the fundamental equilibrium he spent his life pursuing. The tension in his work arises not from movement, but from the calculated balance of these intersecting planes.

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Composition with Red, Black, Blue, Yellow and Grey
Broadway Boogie Woogie

Legacy and Influence on Modern Culture

The grid extends far beyond the canvas. The logic of the right angle and the primary palette moves through the streets of the modern city, manifesting in the structural clarity of architecture and the precise arrangements of typography and graphic design. This visual language remains a constant in the contemporary landscape, appearing in the clean layouts of modern packaging and the bold compositions of advertising.

In 1965, this aesthetic crossed into the realm of high fashion. Yves Saint Laurent translated the geometric principles of the movement into the Mondrian Collection. Six cocktail dresses emerged from this vision, utilizing pre-dyed fabrics to create blocks of color and graphic black lines. These garments were not merely prints; they were constructed from individual pieces of fabric to ensure the lines integrated into the seams, maintaining a sense of structural integrity even in movement.

The influence persists in the way we organize visual information. The tension between the heavy black bars and the primary colors of red, blue, and yellow continues to dictate the rhythm of much of modern visual culture.

Where to See the Works Today

The search for Mondrian’s visual logic leads to several key institutions across Europe and North America. In the Netherlands, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo maintains a significant presence with six works. Nearby, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag preserves pieces that capture his earlier, more figurative transitions, including Devotion.

The evolution toward pure abstraction finds a home in the United States as well. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth holds three works, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also contains pieces from his development. These collections offer a way to trace the movement from the naturalistic landscapes of his youth to the rigid, rhythmic grids of his final years.

Devotion
Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
Broadway Boogie Woogie

Questions & Answers

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Piet Mondrian was born in Amersfoort, in Netherlands.

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By the WikiOO.org Editorial Team Updated Oct. 12, 2026

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