Piet Mondrian found fame, glory and fortune with his grid-like paintings filled with basic colours. But did many of his ideas came from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British tale ...
Piet Mondrian, the groundbreaking Dutch Modernist, is having a moment this fall. A new biography, Piet Mondrian: A Life, was released to rave reviews last month, and a retrospective marking the 150th ...
(CNN) — One of Piet Mondrian’s iconic abstract paintings sold for $51 million at Sotheby’s New York on Monday, setting a new auction record for the Dutch artist’s work. Featuring his signature blue, ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Diane Daniel, Special to The Washington Post THE HAGUE — You might notice it from the highway, in the form of a high-rise sporting a colorful grid on its ...
Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...
“In a squalid yard behind the clamour of the Gare Montparnasse, a dingy staircase leads to Piet Mondrian's door,” the journalist W F A Röell wrote in 1926, when he arrived at the studio of the great ...
Piet Mondrian's New York City I (1941) © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, c/o Beeldrecht, Amsterdam, Holland, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf / Walter Klein ...
“You can say that Mondrian wasn’t even a visual artist,” said the curator of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth. “He was a composer.” By Nina Siegal THE HAGUE — The best way ...
Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s 1922 painting Compositie nr. II has changed hands for a record $51 million (€49.4 million) at auction in New York. It is the highest figure ever paid for a Mondrian, ...