From the artist's life
A passionate dancer, Mondrian celebrated jazz and New York in his last completed work, the syncopated Broadway Boogie Woogie.
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Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) reduced painting to its purest elements — straight black lines, white space and blocks of primary colour. His rigorous grids became one of the defining images of modern art and design.
Mondrian's De Stijl grids shaped modern architecture, graphic design and fashion for a century.
- Co-founded De Stijl, the movement of pure line, plane and primary colour.
- Limited his palette to red, yellow, blue, black and white.
- His grids still echo in logos, buildings and fashion today.
Key works
Where to start
Complete list of key works
Works with a dedicated ArtAtlas page are highlighted in gold.
- Broadway Boogie WoogieOn ArtAtlas
- Composition II in Red, Blue, and YellowOn ArtAtlas
- Victory Boogie WoogieListed for reference
- The Red TreeListed for reference
- Gray TreeListed for reference
- New York CityListed for reference
- EvolutionListed for reference
- Composition 10 in Black and WhiteListed for reference
- Lighthouse in WestkapelleListed for reference
- The Red MillListed for reference
1942
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie is an oil on canvas painting by Piet Mondrian, completed in 1943, after he had moved to New York in 1940.
1930
Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow
The canvas is tiny — just 45.5 × 45.5 cm — yet it has become one of the most reproduced images in 20th-century art history, appearing on everything from IKEA posters to Yves Saint Laurent dresses.