Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red
The grid after it stopped being a landscape. Mondrian's auction band is built almost entirely from prints, which is exactly why no figure from it appears beside a canvas.
MakerPiet Mondrian
Date1935
OriginNetherlands
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions57.5 × 55.6 cm (22 5/8 × 21 7/8 in.)
Classpainting
RegisterWork — unique
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
Price on request
How this figure was reached
A name band is built from every lot that name ever carried, most of them prints and multiples. It cannot value a unique work, so none is quoted.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 78 ended lots found
priced 8
unsold 0
sell-through 100%
confidence 0.45
basis hammer
in euro € 43–€ 650
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Composition (No. 1) Gray-Red, Art Institute of Chicago, object 65821.
Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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