Robert Kenner, in ~rt& An-tiques (Mar. 1991), Art & Antiques Associates, 89 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10003.
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian's abstract ar- rangements of right angles and primary colors can be seen on everything from bedsheets to bathroom tiles. But Mondrian (1 872-1 944) himself remains a somewhat mysterious figure. Art historians have por- trayed him as having made an orderly ar- tistic progression from landscape painter to grid maker, but to tidily portray him thus, says...