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Piet MONDRIAN (1872–1944) was a Dutch painter who worked in the Netherlands, in Paris, in London, and finally in New York. He is famous for his abstract and non-figurative paintings. His early works were mostly traditional landscapes and from 1908 there was an influence of symbolism. While experimenting, Mondrian made his works more abstract, first in a cubist tradition, later in his own unique style. He adopted a restricted set of colors, sometimes soft pastels, eventually only red, yellow, and blue, next to black, white, and sometimes grey. Between 1918 and 1940 he made many paintings of the kind for...