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\n\tThe star of Christie\u2019s 20th\/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 during Frieze Week is Piet Mondrian\u2019s Composition III<\/em> (1920). The work is coming to auction for the first time and is estimated to fetch between \u00a320 million to \u00a330 million ($27 million to $41 million).<\/p>\n Composition III<\/em> (1920) arrives at auction by way of a private collector. The artwork was previously owned by American architect and collector of modernism Armand P. Bartos and his wife Celeste from 1952 to 1973. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe are delighted to celebrate Mondrian\u2019s extraordinary legacy and present his masterpiece from 1920, Composition III<\/em>, in London, where another key work from this pivotal year resides, in the collection of the Tate,\u201d said Keith Gill, vice chairman of 20th\/21st century art at Christie\u2019s. \u201cComposition III<\/em> dates from the breakthrough moment in Mondrian\u2019s career, in which he reached a new, radical abstract idiom that profoundly reshaped the language of modern art. Appearing at auction for the first time in its history, it ranks among the most important and rarest of his paintings ever to come to market.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe last time Christie\u2019s had their hands on more than one piece by Mondrian was in 2009 from the collection of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his business partner Pierre Berg\u00e9, which included Composition avec bleu, rouge, jaune et noir<\/em> (1922) and Composition I <\/em>(1920) selling for $27.9 million (estimated between $7 million and $10 million) and $9 million (estimated between $5 million to $7 million), respectively.<\/p>\n \n\tIn 2022, Sotheby\u2019s sold Mondrian\u2019s Composition No. II<\/em> (1930) at auction for $51 million in New York, a record sum for the Dutch painter\u2019s work to date. In 2025, Christie\u2019s sold the artist\u2019s Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue<\/em> (1922) at auction in New York for $47.6 million inclusive of fees from the Leonard & Louise Riggio: Collected Works sale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/mondrian-painting-auction-christies-frieze-week-1234795778\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Piet-Mondrians-Composition-III-1920-Christies.png?w=1024″] The star of Christie\u2019s 20th\/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 during Frieze Week is Piet Mondrian\u2019s Composition III (1920). The work is coming to auction for the first time and is estimated to fetch between \u00a320 million to \u00a330 million ($27 million to $41 million). Composition III (1920) arrives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2113408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}