Farm at Duivendrecht

Piet Mondrian

Pencil or chalk on paper

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

This drawing belongs to Mondrian's celebrated series of works depicting a farmhouse near Duivendrecht, a small village outside Amsterdam, rendered with attentiveness to light, reflection, and the flat Dutch landscape. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905 and returned to the subject repeatedly, producing approximately twenty known related paintings and drawings over the following decade, reflecting his serial working method. The work sits within his early period, when his art was rooted in naturalistic landscape observation while beginning to shift toward a more structured, compositionally focused approach influenced by Post-Impressionism and, later, Cubism. As a drawing, it exemplifies Mondrian's practice of using works on paper to explore structural line and form—qualities that would prove foundational to his later, fully abstract Neoplasticist style.