but his name is these days synonymous with modernism. Piet Mondrian and the six lines that made a masterpiece Mondrian: The joy of being square His work had a huge influence, not only on the art ...

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 ...

The artist’s father ... “a” of the family name “because he considered his nephew’s work so bizarre that he didn’t want their work confused”. While Mondrian’s works from his ...

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 ...