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Gallery Afloat. With half a dozen residences round the world to furnish, Niarchos has no shortage of wall space. El Greco's Pietà is too big (47¼-in. by 57 in.) to follow him around the world, remains in a room specially decorated for it in Manhattan. His favorite repository is the yacht Creole, which for nearly six months of the year is the Niarchos' home afloat. In the below-decks salon he hangs some of his best, has a special place of honor where he rotates his favorite of the moment-currently Gauguin...
With awe I read of Piet Mondrian's supreme effort-when he painted a canvas composed of a white background with two black lines. One can only regret that he did not live long enough to attain the ultimate-the virgin canvas untouched by brush...
WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
...cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after Mondrian's death (in Manhattan, at 72), his recognition is reaching new heights. Paris, which had never seen a one-man Mondrian show, this spring had two. The first authoritative biography, by Michel Seuphor (Piet Mondrian; Abrams; $17.50), has just been published. Two U.S. museums are laying plans for large-scale Mondrian shows this autumn...
...balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing movement to Piet Mondrian's multi-variations within the rectangle, a constant, single theme, which Biographer Seuphor aptly calls "a kind of gigantic, plastic fugue, which it took twenty-nine years to play...