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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

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 ...