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 ...

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some ...

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 ...

Italy’s art police are investigating 38 people being and have seized more than 2,000 works of art since beginning the ...

Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Investigators discovered that various auction houses across ...

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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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 ...