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 ...

Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 collaboration with the abstract artist Piet Mondrian is one of the most instantly recognisable ...

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 ...

MONDRIAN: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute ... The same is true of the Dutch-born painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). His grids and super-luminous yellows, reds and whites are ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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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More information: Christopher J. Kingsbury et al, Molecular Symmetry and Art: Visualizing the Near‐Symmetry of Molecules in Piet Mondrian's De Stijl, Angewandte Chemie (2024). DOI: 10.1002/ange ...

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 ...