The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian left an unmistakable mark on the world of art -- which is why a city in his homeland is paying him tribute. Mark Phillips takes us on a walking tour: Walk along any ...
Piet Mondrian never intended to go to London. The dream was always New York, that modern place of vertical steel, fashion, and the jazz the Dutchman adored dancing to. Besides, American collectors had ...
The heirs of Piet Mondrian have filed a lawsuit in a US district court seeking the return of a quartet of paintings by the Dutch artist— reportedly valued at over $200 million—from the Kunstmuseen ...
History is usually written by the victors. History of art is usually written by the curators. The museums, the specialists, the ones who arrange the art galleries we sometimes visit. But sometimes, ...
Piet Mondrian in his studio in Amsterdam, Spring 1906. (image courtesy RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History) Two of the great European modernist painters, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, have ...
Hilma af Klint, "The Evolution, The WUS/Seven-Pointed Star Series, Group VI, No.15" (1908) (courtesy the Hilma af Klint Foundation) LONDON — Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (b. 1872) and Swedish artist ...
A painting by one of the pioneers of abstract art has broken the artist's own record by selling for more than $75 million at auction. Composition No. II was finished in 1930, one of almost 30 of Dutch ...
While resident in London (he arrived in 1938 before the Nazi invasion of France), Piet Mondrian caught the eye of a brainy female Oxford University graduate. Henry Moore, his Belsize Park neighbour, ...
She was a Swedish mystic who believed angels guided her work. Why has this overlooked pioneer now been paired with Piet Mondrian, a jazz-mad Dutchman rebelling against his dad’s religion? The answer l ...
For his contribution to abstract art, Piet Mondrian is regularly regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. But there's much more to this Dutch painter than the seemingly ...
Luxury Swiss skincare brand La Prairie has announced a conservation project of 4 works by artist Piet Mondrian through the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland. PICTURED HERE: Piet Mondrian Tableau No. I, ...
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