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 ...

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

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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They are among the very most famous artworks left to us by the twentieth century: Piet Mondrian’s geometric ... relaxed new biography of the artist, “the motifs he invented would appear ...

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 ...

In Mondrian’s case, his mischievous Uncle Frits, played a decisive role in steering the young artist towards worship at a different altar. Frits worked part-time in the family store, in The ...