Piet Mondrian fled the Netherlands to make art in Paris, London and New York. He was drawn to the excitement of urban life ...

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 ... both life and art to the pursuit ...

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

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 ...

Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network that makes and sells fake artworks attributed to ...

In "Espectro en Rojo," a geometric grouping of color and shape fills the composition. Interspersed among the boxy shapes are stylized elements that appear figural, reminiscent of ancient form.

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

The 1920s was a period of cultural revolution that came soon after the traumatic events of World War I. The mass-scale ...

Investigators discovered six forgery workshops and seized more than 2,100 fake artworks with a potential market value of about $215 million.

The same is true of the Dutch-born painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944 ... But one of Mondrian’s uncles was a successful commercial artist who gave him lessons and set him on his way.

Police seized hundreds of millions of euros worth of forged paintings attributed to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Banksy and ...