A square white tile, rotated 90 degrees, crossed by black lines intersecting at 90-degree angles. A few of the shapes thus formed—some partial squares, some rectangles—are colored in a single shade of yellow, blue, black, or red.

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray

Piet Mondrian · 1921

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Palette

Chalk
82% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 15.1:1

Silver
5% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1

Pale gold
5% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 11.5:1

Lamp black
4% of the image
Black · text contrast 20.6:1

Charcoal
2% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.0:1

Ultramarine
2% of the image
Blue · text contrast 13.6:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

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Artist: Piet Mondrian
Dutch, 1872–1944
Date: 1921
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60 × 60 cm (23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.)
Place: Netherlands
Period: Early Modernism · 20th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 84, colourfulness 4

Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray

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