Marlow Moss: Five Things to Know

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Marlow Moss’s radical achievement is gaining recognition, with the Rijksmuseum acquiring three of her works in 2023.

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Turning point: she was born Marjorie Jewel Moss but changed her name and adopted male clothing after she moved to Paris as a young artist in the 1920s.

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She was a friend of Piet Mondrian who urged her to move to New York as he did at the outbreak of WW2 but she chose to stay in England with her partner.

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Her partner was the Dutch writer Netty Nijhoff, who said that Moss and Mondrian were well matched, describing them as two “lone wolves”.

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Market breakthrough: White, Black, Blue and Red (1944) set a new auction record for Moss when it sold for $828,100 at Sotheby's in 2025.