Piet Mondrian Auction Prices and Value Guide

Piet Mondrian auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 947 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Artist
Piet Mondrian
Source records
947
Market update
2026-02-06

Artist context

About Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was a Dutch painter and art theoretician widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Born Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, he trained as a figurative painter before encountering Cubism at a 1911 exhibition in Amsterdam — a moment that redirected his practice toward radical abstraction. After moving to Paris, he co-founded the De Stijl movement with Theo van Doesburg, developing Neoplasticism: a visual language restricted to horizontal and vertical black lines intersecting planes of primary red, yellow, and blue against white grounds. Mondrian pursued this vocabulary for the rest of his life, refining it in London and finally New York, where works such as Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–43) introduced rhythmic color strips inspired by the city grid and jazz. His paintings are held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

De Stijl (Neoplasticism)CubismAbstract artoil paintingwatercolordrawingetchinggeometric abstraction — grids of black lines with planes of primary color (red, yellow, blue) and non-color (white, gray, black)landscapes and naturalistic scenes (early career)

Common works and media

Mondrian's auction and appraisal record includes oil paintings on canvas — especially the mature grid compositions with black lines and primary-color planes — as well as earlier figurative landscapes depicting trees, windmills, dunes, and church facades. Works on paper in gouache, watercolor, and charcoal appear less frequently but are well represented. Etchings and illustrations from his early career also circulate. The artist's late New York-period paintings, which introduced colored strips without black borders, represent a distinct and highly sought-after category.

Market and appraisal context

Piet Mondrian's auction market is exceptionally deep and wide, with 381 lots recorded in the Appraisily auction database spanning from May 1990 through January 2026, 225 of which carry realized prices. The price distribution is heavily skewed: the minimum recorded price is $30 (posters and offset lithographs), the 25th percentile sits at $200, the median is $6,500, the 75th percentile reaches $114,000, and the maximum is $50,565,000 for a major Neoplastic oil on canvas. This dispersion reflects the vast gulf between original oil paintings — especially mature grid compositions from the 1920s–1940s — and later reproductions, posters, prints, and ephemera. Two landmark sales anchor the top of the range: Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Ye realized $47,560,000 at Christie's in May 2025, and another Composition with Red and Blue oil on canvas realized $23,060,000 at Christie's in November 2025. Major auction houses include Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams, Aguttes, Lempertz, and Hampel Fine Art Auctions, confirming blue-chip institutional demand. Mid-tier and regional houses (Germann Auction House, Hessink's, DUMBO Auctions, The Rug Life Auctions, EJ'S Auction & Appraisal) handle prints, posters, portfolios, and ephemera at lower price points. Liquidity is strong: 19 lots appeared in the most recent 12-month period (down from 37 the prior year), indicating a still-active but selective market.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • oil painting
  • works on paper (gouache, watercolor, charcoal, fusain)
  • prints and lithographs
  • etching
  • letters and ephemera

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • Mondrian's auction record includes realized prices spanning a wide range; early figurative works and later Neoplastic compositions may differ substantially in market value
  • Attribution should be verified through the catalogue raisonné or a qualified specialist, as the artist's signature style has been widely imitated
  • No specific price predictions can be made from these sources alone; consult comparable public auction records for current estimates
  • The price distribution is extremely wide ($30 to $50,565,000). Median and percentile figures aggregate original paintings, prints, reproductions, and ephemera; they should not be applied to any individual work without filtering by medium, period, and authenticity.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

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Data basis

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