Mark Stevens, art critic for Newsweek, The New Republic, and New York magazine and co-author with Annalyn Swan of Francis Bacon: Revelations and De Kooning: An American Master writes:
In Mondrian, the monk of modernism finally gets the flesh-and-blood portrait he deserves. The lifelong ‘quest for the absolute’ does not shelter Mondrian from the temptations of love, the rewards and difficulties of friendship, or the profoundly playful spirit of jazz. Instead they enrich his art. This monk can dance.
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute by Nicholas Fox Weber will be published in the English language by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2024.
Nicholas Fox Weber has been the executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for four decades. He is the author of iBauhaus, Le Corbusier, Balthus, and Patron Saints, among others. His next book, Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute will be published by Knopf in October. He lives in Connecticut, Paris, and Ireland.