Mondrian “made marks at the edges, then very slowly painted these lines. They look precise but they are based on intuition,” said Ulf Kuster, who organized the exhibition. For the Dutch artist, ...
Piet Mondrian’s final trio of paintings was tinted by the last place the Dutch abstract artist called home: New York. Made in quick succession after World War II pushed him to move to Manhattan in ...
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 ...
Piet Mondrian’s The Red Cloud is one of a number of the artist's pieces in the Switzerland exhibition. Kunstmuseum Den Haag Piet Mondrian’s name is indistinguishable from his signature style: blocks ...
A rare painting by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian sold for $51 million at auction late Monday night, fetching more than 20 times what the piece sold for last time it went to auction 40 years ago and ...
Surpassing Mondrian’s previous benchmark, when a 2015 Christie’s auction realised $50.5 million for a 1929 painting, the Sotheby’s sale was the first time Mondrian’s 1930 Composition No. II appeared ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The old woman sits upright at a table, her head cast down towards her hands, which are busy in her lap. The ...
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 ...
Sometime in the 2000s, I became hooked on an online video game called “Pac-Mondrian.” It was like “Pac-Man” — you gobbled dots while running from ghosts — but replaced that game’s grid labyrinth with ...
A curator concluded that a piece featuring thick, colorful tape had been hung at her museum the “wrong way around.” But it’s difficult to truly discern Mondrian’s vision for an unsigned work. By Julia ...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman ...