Broadway Boogie Woogie

Credit: MOMA , NYC.

1942-1943

Mondrian arrived in New York in 1940, one of the many European artists who moved to the United States to escape World War II. He immediately fell in love with the city and with boogie-woogie music, to which he was introduced on his first evening in New York. Soon he began, as he said, to put a little boogie-woogie into his paintings.

Oil on canvas

50 x 50" (127 x 127 cm)