Shop art print and framed art Broadway Boogie-Woogie by Piet Mondrian

Broadway Boogie-Woogie is the last completed painting by Piet Mondrian, painted in New York in 1942 and 1943. It measures 127 × 127 cm (50 × 50 inches). It is kept at MoMA in New York, thanks to a gift from Maria Martins. Fleeing Paris, Mondrian arrived in New York on 3 October 1940. As he had done in Paris, Mondrian whitewashed his studio and then laid out coloured rectangles and squares on the walls, arranging them as studies in rhythm and form. In New York, Mondrian retouched some of the canvases he had brought from Paris (where he had been living since 1938) and undertook his last works, which marked profound transformations. These were New York City I (1940-1942, Musée national d'Art moderne, Paris), New York City II (1941, Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen), New York, New York (1941, unfinished. Private collection), Broadway Boogie-Woogie and Victory Boogie-Woogie (1942-1944, unfinished. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum). In the 1930s, in Paris and then in London, Mondrian had moved on. There is a photograph, taken in his Paris studio around October 1933, in which the artist poses in costume next to two recent canvases on an easel, foreshadowing many of the changes to come. Above, Composition in Diamond with Four Yellow Lines (80 × 80 cm. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum) shows for the first time lines drawn in a colour other than black. Below, Composition with Coloured Square (The Hague, Gemeentemuseum) shows doubled lines. From 1935 onwards, the colour red became [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the abstract art style.

 

« Broadway Boogie-Woogie » is kept at Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York, USA.

 

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