For six years, the most comprehensive biography ever written on the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian was only available in Dutch. Yet, according to a more nuanced portrait of Mondrian proposed by Hans Janssen’s meticulously researched Piet Mondriaan – Een nieuwe kunst voor een ongekend leven, translated into English this year on the 150th anniversary of Mondrian’s birth, much of the …
Piet Mondrian and the six lines that made a masterpiece ICN, Amsterdam A 1922 painting by Piet Mondrian challenged art history, defining a new era, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee, as two exhibitions celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. Today, a century later, Mondrian's 56 x 63cm Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey is on permanent display in the …
