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?

One of Piet Mondrian’s iconic abstract paintings sold for $51 million at Sotheby’s New York on Monday, setting a new auction record for the Dutch artist’s work. Featuring his signature blue ...

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.” ...

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 ...

The studio comes with a mythology: it is seen, somewhat romantically, as place for pure creation, continuing in space the artist’s thinking process. In the case of the studios Piet Mondrian ...

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.

Big Number $50.6 million. That was Mondrian’s previous auction record, set when “Composition No. III, with Red, Blue, Yellow, and Black” was auctioned off in 2015. $50.6 million.

Vincent van Gogh and Piet Mondrian are convenient foils, personifying swirls and straight lines, nature and abstraction, license and restraint. The Dutchmen, however, were in many ways alike. They ...