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The stark, frugal world of Piet Mondrian

The Dutch abstract painter lived for and in his art – with white furniture made from fruit boxes and whitewashed walls punctuated by cardboard rectangles painted in primary colours

‘Composition in red, yellow and blue’, by Piet Mondrian, 1921. Credit: Bridgeman Images

  • Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

    Nicholas Fox Weber

    Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 639, £40

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