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Made from 13 square timbers in quadratic profile, two armrests in rectangular profile, one seat painted blue and a backrest painted red. All square timbers black, cut surfaces painted yellow. The first version of the chair, known today as the Red-Blue Chair, was created around 1918 and was still made from unfinished wooden parts. It was not until 1923 that examples in the colour scheme influenced by the De Stijl movement began to appear. The first major retrospective on the De Stijl group in 1951 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reignited interest in this three-dimensional work of art and paved the way for the chair to become an icon of modern design. From 1925 onwards, Rietveld’s former apprentice Gerard van de Groenekan was entrusted by him with the production of the furniture. Further examples from the Groenekan production can be found, for instance, in the Centraalmuseum Utrecht (Inv. No. 26106) and in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (obj. no. 487.1953).