Piet Mondriaan: Victory Boogie Woogie (1944)

Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan (after 1906 Mondrian), was a Dutch painter and contributor to the De Stijl art movement, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors. He died of pneumonia in 1944. Victory Boogie Woogie is his last, unfinished work, and it has been in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague since 1998. It was purchased at a cost of 80 million guilders (approximately 35 million euros) from the American collector Samuel Irving Newhouse.