Christie's gives Frieze week to its 20th/21st Century series at 8 King Street, 14 to 21 October 2026, led by Mondrian's Composition III and Kandinsky's Das bunte Leben.
Mondrian’s Composition III and Kandinsky’s Das bunte Leben lead Christie’s 20th/21st Century series at Christie’s King Street in St James’s from Wednesday 14 to Wednesday 21 October 2026. The series runs in Frieze week.
Christie’s was founded by James Christie in 1766 and has sold from King Street since 1823. Its twentieth and twenty-first century departments now carry the house, which took $6.2 billion across its sales in 2025.
Mondrian finished Composition III in 1920, one of eight canvases from his move into Neo-Plasticism. It is the most important Mondrian offered at auction in Europe since 2009.
Kandinsky painted Das bunte Leben in Paris in 1907, and the canvas is dense with Russian folklore. It was restituted to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in June 2023, so it comes to the saleroom with its ownership question resolved.
The London series each October tests Europe’s supply of major modern pictures in one week. Both paintings toured Zurich, Paris, New York and Hong Kong before the London view, which opened on Thursday 8 October.