Piet MondrianDutch, 1872–1944Broadway Boogie Woogie
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Broadway Boogie Woogie” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Broadway Boogie Woogie is an oil on canvas painting by Piet Mondrian, completed in 1943, after he had moved to New York in 1940.
Details
- Accession number
- 73.1943
In the catalog
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Piet Mondrian
The whole life23 September 1940
Sailing from Liverpool to New York
After the Netherlands were invaded and Paris fell, Mondrian left London and on 23 September 1940 sailed from Liverpool aboard the Cunard White Star liner RMS Samaria for New York, where he remained until his death.
c. 1941
A night at Café Society after the rheumatism
The year before his seventieth birthday Mondrian marked his emergence from a long bout of rheumatism with a wild night out at Café Society in New York.
autumn 1943
His last studio on East 59th Street
In the autumn of 1943 Mondrian moved into his second and final Manhattan studio, painted the walls the same off-white as his easel and made furniture from orange and apple crates; he said that the eight large compositions of coloured paper on the walls made it the best space he had ever lived in.
1 February 1944
Pneumonia: his final illness
Mondrian died of pneumonia after only a few months in his last studio; “Victory Boogie Woogie” was left unfinished.
1 February 1944
Died
