Farm near Duivendrecht

Though Piet Mondrian is best known for his nonrepresentational paintings, his basic vision was rooted in landscape. He was particularly inspired by the flat topography of his native Holland, a subject he returned to even after he had begun working in an abstract style. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905. Nine of the 20 known related paintings and drawings of the farm, however, were created later, during World War I.