‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a crossdressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
- Posted on January 12, 2026
- By The Guardian
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‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a crossdressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?

Piet Mondrian found fame, glory and fortune with his grid-like paintings filled with basic colours. But did many of his ideas came from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent who died in obscurity