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 ...

This screenprint was printed for the portfolio "A Portfolio of 10 Paintings" Published and printed by New Haven: Ives-Sillman Inc., 1967. In very good condition (vivid colors), slight crease in the ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Pac-Mondrian closes the perceptual distance between fine art and video games by combining Piet Mondrian's Modernist masterpiece 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' with Toru Iwatani's classic video game Pac-Man.

Piet Mondrian’s impact on his contemporaries was nicely summed up by the English painter Ben Nicholson, who was baffled at first by Mondrian’s paintings but amazed and exhilarated by the ...