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A 1922 painting by Piet Mondrian fetched $47.6 million at auction, becoming the Dutch artist’s third highest-selling work.
Mondrian’s unique geometric style and modern approach preceded the the rise of abstract art in the 1940s and 1950s.
Mondrian purged his art of depth and detail during World War I. Clean planes of red, yellow and blue lie amid glossy, thickly painted lines of black. An abstract, geometric picture — black lines ...
One of Piet Mondrian’s iconic Modernist paintings may have been hanging upside down for decade, according to research from an art historian ... palette and striking geometric lines.
If you thought Piet Mondrian’s art was all abstract geometric forms and primary colours, a new exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum will have you reconsidering this notion. Upon entering the first room, ...
An artwork by the abstract Dutch painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in various galleries for 75 years, an art historian ... language with the geometric structure and the reduction ...
The brief for Mondrian is harder to extract from ... towards women and was obsessively focused on a strict and geometric attitude to art and life.” Janssen establishes by abundant testimony ...
“Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute” tracks ... those simple but painstaking geometric paintings of the ‘20s and ‘30s. Fox Weber sees Mondrian’s lines in every ...
yellow and blue squares by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian sold for $47.6 million on Monday. The sale kicked off a weeklong series of New York auctions that will test the art market’s mettle amid ...