What was up with Piet Mondrian and those kisses? Among the discoveries in a new biography of the pioneering abstract painter by Nicholas Fox Weber, “Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The same is true of the Dutch-born painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). His grids and super-luminous yellows, reds and whites are instantly identifiable. Nicholas Fox Weber’s new biography ...

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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 ...

“Mondrian: His Life ... Following the model of his uncle, a successful painter of middlebrow landscapes and portraits, Piet decided at the precocious age of 14 to pursue a career in art.

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 ...