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

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some ...

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 ...

On show in a historic palazzo in the central Italian city of Pisa this week are about 450 works arranged by some ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Investigators discovered that various auction houses across ...

“Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute” tracks ... a successful painter of middlebrow landscapes and portraits, Piet decided at the precocious age of 14 to pursue a career ...

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Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network that makes and sells fake artworks attributed to ...

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 ...

Like many sons of preacher-men, the artist would soon rebel, ending up as the “jazz-loving pioneer of abstraction”. In Mondrian’s case, his mischievous Uncle Frits, played a decisive role in ...

Piet Mondrian’s impact on his contemporaries was ... self-denial made his eldest son decide to dedicate both life and art to the pursuit of pure pleasure. But although young Pieter swiftly ...