Composition with Yellow Lines

Composition with Yellow Lines is a 1933 abstract painting on canvas by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.

While following the grid like structures of his other abstract paintings, it is unusual in omitting the use of any black lines.

[1] Indeed, Mondrian's earlier writings on art had stated that any lines in his paintings had to be black; colour was reserved for the filled in rectangles.

[4] The painting was presented to the museum in 1933 after a group of artists organised a public collection of funds to purchase it.

[5] A 2007 musical piece for clarinet and piano by the composer Stuart Greenbaum is based on the painting and has the same name.