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Piet Mondrian: Composition with Gray and Light Brown, 1918
Source: WebMuseum (see "image archives" below)
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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
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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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Mondrian day dress, designed by Yves Saint Laurent
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
7 works online when last checked
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Piet Mondrian at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, ca.1924/25
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Composition No. 12 with Blue
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938 / Composition with Red 1939, 1938-39
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online
Piet Mondrian at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
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
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
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Composition, 1914
Abstraction, 1939-42
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Piet Mondrian in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
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
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
6 works by Piet Mondrian online
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
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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 in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: New York City I, 1942
Piet Mondrian at CGFA
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)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
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
The ArtFile
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
(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
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The Art Story
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Richard Smith on Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie
Time Magazine
"Pursuit of the Square", 1971 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Purifying Nature", 1995 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"A Disciple's Progress", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
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.
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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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