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

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 ...

MONDRIAN: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute, by Nicholas Fox Weber The painter David Salle once wrote — he was quoting a friend — that you could recognize one of Alex Katz’s ...

“Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute” tracks the artist’s story with care and precision, debunking several longstanding myths about Mondrian along the way. While it has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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As Nicholas Fox Weber shows in “Mondrian: His Life, His Art, and His Quest for the Absolute,” much of the first 40 years of the painter’s life proved a hard slog. Mondrian struggled to find ...