Mondrian paintings broadway boogie woogie

Broadway Boogie-Woogie is the last painting Mondrian completed. In the early phases of its genesis, the two 1942 drawings in the Newman Collection, it still shows many points of coincidence with the painting preceded it, New York City I.

In the preliminary studies rhythm of the painting is determined by the long lines of the grid, while other accents indicate the insertion of little bands of unbounded color, characteristic of the enlivening alterations that Mondrian made in New York on the paintings of his last years in Europe.

One example of a painting so changed is Composition London, which in its present state - that is, after the changes Mondrian made on it in New York - must be roughly contemporaneous with the Broadway Boogie-Woogie sketches.

In the completion of Broadway Boogie-Woogie the same sort of process took place as in the final reworking of Composition London.

The painting seems initially to have been based