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Why did Piet Mondrian leave Victory Boogie Woogie unfinished?
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Piet Mondrian
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian did not leave Victory Boogie Woogie unfinished due to a stylistic choice or a change in artistic direction; rather, it remained incomplete because he passed away. Mondrian succumbed to pneumonia in 1944, which brought his work on the painting to an abrupt end.12