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Everything in his life was reasoned or calculated. He was a compulsive neurotic and could never bear to see anything disordered or untidy. He seemed to suffer acutely, for instance, if a table had not been laid with perfect symmetry.
| | - Hannah Höch on Piet Mondrian, quoted by Edouard Roditi |
Piet Mondrian Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Piet Mondrian available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 11 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Mondrian day dress, designed by Yves Saint Laurent
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Composition with Grid 1, 1918, 1918
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Composition No. 12 with Blue
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Fox Trot B
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Brabant Farmyard
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Trees, ca.1912
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Line of Trees in Marshy Landscape, 1905/06
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian) 
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(You need to click the "right" arrow eight times)
Musée Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (in French)
Femmes dans un bois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
18 works by Mondrian
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
State Museums of Florence, Italy
Self-portrait, 1918
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Lozenge Composition with Two Lines, 1931
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2007 exhibition
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
3 paintings online
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "Modern" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Composition XIV, 1913
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Piet Mondrian
Website about Piet Mondrian and his paintings
Piet Mondrian at The Artchive
Piet Mondrian at The Athenaeum
9 works online
Piet Mondrian in the WebMuseum
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Piet Mondrian at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for a work from a 2007 exhibition
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for 2 works from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The ArtFile
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Mondriaanhuis Foundation, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Some background information on the artist, but no artwork whatsoever
Kilidavid
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
Repository of Abstract Art
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red and Grey, 1922
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Piet Mondrian 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The Art Story
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Richard Smith on Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie
Multimedia:
Mondrimat
Interactive game allowing web surfers to create Mondrian-like images
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Mondrian's Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Piet Mondrian's New York City 2
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
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Mondrian: On the Humanity of Abstract Painting
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Natural Reality and Abstract Reality
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Masters of Art: Mondrian
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Mondrian: Cameo
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