Broadway Boogie Woogie

'Broadway Boogie-Woogie', painted in 1942–1943 in Piet Mondrian's New York exile, was the artist's final completed canvas and a radical reinvention of his earlier neoplastic vocabulary. The black grid dissolves into syncopated small squares of yellow, red, blue, and grey that shimmer across the canvas like the pulsating flow of Broadway traffic and the boogie-woogie jazz Mondrian had fallen in love with in America. Bequeathed by his friend Harry Holtzman in 1943, it entered the Museum of Modern Art in New York shortly after Mondrian's death in 1944.

Exhibition Venue

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands