Piet Mondrian fled the Netherlands to make art in Paris, London and New York. He was drawn to the excitement of urban life but remained unsparing about his work.

Mondrian needing to point that out in the title seems notably fussy, but says something else, too. To me, it speaks of a general frustration with trying to capture the world as it is, an ...

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 ...

When Mondrian sorted out his own style and theory (in the early years of World War I), he resolved to simplify all nature in vertical and horizontal (masculine and feminine) strokes, make ...

Even abstract paintings such as Piet Mondrian's 1912 cubist Gray Tree, which doesn’t visually show treelike colours, can be ...

A grid-like painting featuring a patchwork of red, 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 ...

The painting, created in 1930, was last auctioned in 1983, when it fetched a then-record $2.15 million. It is one of only three Mondrian works to feature the dominant red square at the upper right ...

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 ...

One of Piet Mondrian’s signature abstract paintings sold for $51 million on Monday, setting a new auction record for the Dutch artist’s work.