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Mondrian's sold for $51 million

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"One of Piet Mondrian's iconic abstract paintings sold for $51 million at Sotheby's New York on Monday, setting a new auction record for the Dutch artist's work. Featuring his signature blue, red, white and yellow squares, "Composition No. II" had been advertised as being among "the most significant" artworks by the painter ever to appear on the collectors' market. The painting, created in 1930, was last auctioned in 1983, when it fetched a then-record $2.15 million. "'Composition No. II' embodies everything you could want from a Mondrian — it is a seminal painting that is both crucial to the development of Modern art and emblematic of the enduring appeal of the Modern aesthetic, characterized by a serene sense of compositional balance and spatial order, and with superb provenance," Dawes said. Mondrian moved to Paris in 1912 after being impressed by the early Cubist work of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. There, he began to experiment with abstract and fragmented ways of representing reality. He increasingly used only vertical and horizontal lines." 11/15/22 https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/piet-mondrian-composition-auction-intl-scli/index.html

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