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Pale paper covered in a charcoal grid of thin lines, with red, blue and yellow painted rectangles along its edges.

Study for a Composition, Grid with Red, Blue and Yellow Blocks

A sheet of pale, yellowed paper with a faint charcoal grid of overlapping horizontal and vertical lines. Flat rectangles of red, blue and yellow gouache sit at the edges of the grid, with a small diagonal fragment at lower right.

Artist
Piet Mondrian
Date
1940–41
Medium
Collage of cut and pasted papers, prepared with gouache and charcoal, on pieced cream wove newsprint in three parts with charcoal on verso
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
844 × 1199 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1941).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection