In news that is sure to delight detractors of modern art, an abstract painting by Piet Mondrian at a German museum was found to have been hanging upside down ever since it was first exhibited — for ...

The recent discovery that a picture by the Dutch (and, latterly, New York) painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in the German museum where it has lived for half a century seemed to evoke ...

BERLIN (AP) — The German city of Krefeld is opening an investigation into disputed works by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian that have been part of the city's Kaiser Wilhelm Museum collection for decades.

While Mondrian is overshadowed by more-famous Dutch artists Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt van Rijn, he was considered a leader of modern art by the time he moved to New York City in 1940. (He died ...

Editor’s Note: This article was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction’s conclusion. One of Piet Mondrian’s iconic abstract paintings sold for $51 million at Sotheby ...

Piet Mondrian's New York City I (1941) © Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, c/o Beeldrecht, Amsterdam, Holland, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf / Walter Klein ...

On the surface, Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint made very different work. But an exhibition at Tate Modern explores the pair’s shared obsessions, including astrology, X-rays and atoms. By Emily ...

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From 1908 to 1911, Piet Mondrian lived and worked at Sarphatipark 42, a building designed for artists. (© Mondrian/Holtzman Trust, all images courtesy Thames & Hudson) Edited by Dutch designer Cees W.