A grid-like painting featuring a patchwork of red, yellow and blue squares by Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian sold for $47.6 million on Monday. The sale kicked off a weeklong series of New York ...

However, in Mondrian’s 1912 “Bloeiende Appelboom” (“Blooming Apple Tree”), a painting in the same series, the branch diameter scaling is gone, Newberry said, with a value of 5.4.

However, in Mondrian’s 1912 “Bloeiende Appelboom” (“Blooming Apple Tree”), a painting in the same series, the branch diameter scaling is gone, Newberry said, with a value of 5.4.

Over time, his style became more abstract. By 1911 he was already at the point where he only used a series of angled lines to depict a tree in “De Grijze Boom” (“The Grey Tree”).

Piet Mondrian painted the same tree in “The gray tree” (left) and “Blooming apple tree” (right). Viewers can readily discern the tree in “The gray tree” with a branch diameter scaling exponent of 2.8.

This hints that realism is not the only requirement for a convincing tree image. A highly abstract example from Piet Mondrian’s series offers a glimpse at this idea. Even with just a few black lines ...

Tableau I by Piet Mondrian, 1921. [Image: Kunstmuseum Den Haag] When I saw Mondrian’s 1911 “Gray Tree,” I immediately recognized something about trees that I had struggled to describe.

The treeless tree ‘Polder Landscape with Silhouetted Young Tree’ by Piet Mondrian, 1900-1901. Wikimedia Commons From 1890 to 1912, Mondrian painted dozens of trees.

Piet Mondrian’s final trio of paintings was tinted by the last place the Dutch abstract artist called home: New York. Made in quick succession after World War II pushed him to move to Manhattan ...

In 1965 Yves Saint Laurent launched a series of Mondrian dresses with vertical and horizontal lines and rectangles in primary colours. The dresses sold far better, back then, than did Mondrian’s ...

Mondrian was known for planting bizarre, forceful and one-sided kisses, some lasting 30 minutes, on women. Yet he mostly felt women got in men’s way; the feminine was “hostile to the spirit.” ...