(CNN) — 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, ...
Piet Mondrian, the groundbreaking Dutch Modernist, is having a moment this fall. A new biography, Piet Mondrian: A Life, was released to rave reviews last month, and a retrospective marking the 150th ...
Abstract artist Piet Mondrian’s masterpiece, Composition No. II, is expected to achieve more than US$50 million at a Sotheby’s auction in November. The square painting, created in 1930, features the ...
A painting from one of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s most famous eras is expected to sell for more than $50 million at Sotheby’s in November, the auction house says, more than 20 times higher than the ...
“Quintessential works by Piet Mondrian rarely come to auction as many are housed in the most prestigious museum collections around the world,” Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of impressionist and modern ...
Surpassing Mondrian’s previous benchmark, when a 2015 Christie’s auction realised $50.5 million for a 1929 painting, the Sotheby’s sale was the first time Mondrian’s 1930 Composition No. II appeared ...
Piet Mondrian, “Windmill in Twilight” (c. 1907-1908), oil on canvas, 67.5 x 117.5 cm; © Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands (all images courtesy ...
The organizers of a large Piet Mondrian exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel are forging ahead with a provocative thesis: that the artist never truly abandoned nature. The show, which will ...