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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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He is a purist in form and method: Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute is exceptionally thorough (rivalling biographies of Napoleon at 650 pages) and reveals a fanatical ...

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 ...

dubbed Piet after the famed abstract painter Piet Mondrian. The language uses 20 distinct colors, with the colors cycling from red to yellow to green to cyan to blue to magenta and the lightness ...

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