Piet Mondrian, in 1909; the artist’s breakthrough into abstraction came with the co-founding of De Stijl journal Photo: Alfred Waldenburg ...

Who Was Piet Mondrian Before He Painted His Iconic Abstract Grids? A new exhibition explores the evolution of the Dutch artist’s style, 150 years after his birth ...

Fans of Piet Mondrian May Greet a New Biography of the Pioneering Abstract Painter With a Chef’s Kiss. The Mondrian that emerges from Nicholas Fox Weber’s long, thoroughly researched, and, in the end, ...

Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on ... PARIS — Reliable histories about postwar abstraction in New York always include the pivotal role played by Dutch émigré ...

Piet Mondrian, Composition With Double Line and Blue (1935). Fondation Beyeler, ... they don’t see this very scholarly distinction between figuration and abstraction,” says Kuster, ...

Artist Piet Mondrian is known today for his patterns of black lines and primary colors. But he started out painting classic Dutch landscapes. We trace his path to abstraction. Photo: Gemeentemuseum ...

Abstract painting by Piet Mondrian accidentally hung upside down for 75 years ‘I am 100 per cent certain the picture is the wrong way around,’ said the museum curator . Louis Chilton.

Piet Mondrian, The Gein Trees along the water (c.1905). Photo courtesy of Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Piet Mondrian, Red Amaryllis with blue background (1909–1910).

Abstract artist Piet Mondrian’s masterpiece, Composition No. II, is expected to achieve more than US$50 million at a Sotheby’s auction in November. The square painting, ...

Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...

Mondrian painted “Composition No. II” in 1930, when he was living in Paris and refined his grid-based abstract art with black lines and primary colors, which he may be best remembered for.

Piet Mondrian pioneered abstract painting. But he kept painting flowers — flowers that our critic Jason Farago can’t stop thinking about. What makes them so magnetic?