‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?

Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent ...
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Piet Mondrian painting fetches record $51M at rare auction

(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, ...
Artnet

A Spectacular Mondrian Heading to Sotheby’s This November Is Poised to Fetch Over $50 Million—and Make Auction History

An exceptional painting by the groundbreaking Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian is set to be the highlight of Sotheby’s New York’s forthcoming Modern Evening Auction on November 14. The price is likely to ...
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A Piet Mondrian Painting Sold for a Record Breaking $51 Million at Auction

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 ...
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Piet Mondrian’s Abstract Masterpiece ‘Composition No. II’ Could Fetch $50 Million at Auction

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 ...
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Mondrian Before Abstraction

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 ...
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Piet Mondrian Is One of the Most Influential Artists of the Modern Era. So Why Is His Market So Volatile?

One hundred and fifty years after his birth, Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s work still feels as radical as ever. That’s the thesis of a new exhibition, “Mondrian Evolution,” at the Fondation Beyeler in ...