Composition IX

Composition IX is a painting from one of the leaders of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg. The painting, completed in 1918, hangs in the Kunstmuseum, The Hague, Netherlands. The work bears Van Doesburg's monogram and the year 1917 at the bottom right and is considered a 're-presentation' of an earlier work by Van Doesburg, Card Players, from 1916-17.

During the creation of the painting, Van Doesburg's ideas about modern painitng were, so it appears from the numerous writing he made in that year, still in development. In the same year, he established the journal bearing the name De Stijl with other members of the group it is said that Composition IX is inspired by the work of Vilmos Huszár, for examples his Composition with white head, and the reading man on the cover of De Stijl journal.