An abstract, geometric picture — black ... After his youthful Dutch landscapes, after some Cubist efforts in Paris, Mondrian purged his art of depth and detail during World War I.

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... When Piet Mondrian arrived in Paris in 1911, he was nearly 40 years old and had been working in a style influenced by his interest ...

The human being, the original subject of art that had concerned ... the Pinault family’s private museum in Paris’s 2nd arrondissement, there is not one abstract canvas in sight.