The Figurative Mondrian continues at the Musée Marmottan Monet (2, rue Louis-Boilly, Paris, France) through January 26. The exhibition is curated by Marianne Mathieu, Scientific Director of the ...

Visitors sit around a 10-foot-high, semitransparent cube to watch scenes of Mondrian working interspersed with vignettes of 1940s New York City, to the background of the music he loved.

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 was known for planting bizarre, forceful and one-sided kisses, some lasting 30 minutes, on women. Yet he mostly felt women got in men’s way; the feminine was “hostile to the spirit.” ...

When he painted “Broadway Boogie Woogie” in 1942-1943, Mondrian (1872-1944) had been living in New York City for just over two years. The Dutch artist was in his early 70s.

Painting and Sculpture.” But the museum director, Max Creutz, died before the show came to fruition. Piet Mondrian, Tableau No. VII (1925). Courtesy of Kunstmuseen Krefeld, via Wikimedia Commons.

Missing artworks by Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian have been recovered by police almost a decade after they were taken from the National Art Gallery in Athens.

“Mondrian’s Dress: Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian, and Pop Art” is an illustrated monograph that explores a mid-’60s moment, one that has been sitting in plain sight, largely unexamined ...

Mondrian was a fan of American jazz and would play it on the gramophone for visitors to his studio, said Küster. He also attended Josephine Baker’s dance performances in Paris.