Piet Mondrian fled the Netherlands to make art in Paris, London and New York. He was drawn to the excitement of urban life ...

A 1930s painting by Piet Mondrian has sold for $51m (£43m) in a New York auction, a record for the artist's work. The piece was last sold in 1983 for $2.15m, which is equivalent to $6.4m (£5.4m ...

An artwork by the abstract Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in various galleries for 75 years, an art historian has said. Despite the recent discovery, the work ...

A painting by the renowned Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in art galleries for 75 years, according to an art historian, per The Guardian. The 1941 abstract painting "New ...

“The cubist geometrizing of form became a guide to Mondrian,” Fox Weber writes. This culminated in his most significant, lasting work, those simple but painstaking geometric paintings of the ...

A more tangible loss to our understanding of Mondrian’s oeuvre is the number of paintings that the Nazis confiscated and likely destroyed. As demand for Mondrian’s paintings steadily increased ...

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Recent biographies of three iconic artists -- Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and Alexander Calder -- paint a far more nuanced picture. Their lives suggest that while hardship may shape an artist's ...

Piet Mondrian’s impact on his contemporaries was nicely summed up by the English painter Ben Nicholson, who was baffled at first by Mondrian’s paintings but amazed and exhilarated by the ...