Farm near Duivendrecht

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c. 1916

Piet Mondrian
Dutch, 1872–1944

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 after attending an exhibition of the Cubist paintings of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in 1911. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905. Nine of the twenty known related paintings and drawings of the farm, however, were created later, during World War I. Mondrian likely returned to the subject because his wartime patrons generally preferred his earlier naturalistic compositions to his recent experiments with Cubism.

Status: On View, Gallery 391
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Piet Mondrian
Title: Farm near Duivendrecht
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1911–1921
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "Piet Mondriaan"
Dimensions: 86.3 × 107.9 cm (34 × 42 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg
Reference Number: 2001.479
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John Canaday, Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolio 4, Abstraction (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958), 16, 28, pl. 42 (ill.) (as Landscape wtih Farmhouse, 1906).
John Canaday, Mainstreams of Modern Art (New York: Holt, 1959), 490 (ill.), 492 (as Landscape wtih Farmhouse, 1906).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects 20th Century, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1963), 25 (ill.), 26 (as Landscape with Farmhouse).
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Mondriaan in de collectie van het Haags Gemeentemuseum: Catalogus 1964 (Den Haag: Haags Gemeetemuseum, 1964), 105.
John Coplans, Serial Imagery, exh. cat. (Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1968), 38, 39, cat. 44 (ill.), 144 (as Farm at Duivendrecht, 1906).
Cor Blok, Piet Mondriaan : een catalogus van zijn werk in Nederlands openbaar bezit (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1974), 173, no. IIIe.
Barabara Buenger, “A Later Version of Mondrian’s Farm at Duivendrecht,” Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin (1981–83): 36, 37 (ill), 49–52( as Farm at Duivendrecht, c. 1914–1916), version IIIe.
Joop M. Joosten and Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné, 1911–1944, v. 2 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996), 464, no. C8 (ill.).
Ulf Küster, Susanne Gaensheimer, Kathrin Bessen, Susanne Meyer–Büser, eds., Mondrian Evolution, exh. cat. (Riehen/Basel, Switzerland: Foundation Beyeler; Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; The Hague: Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2022), 18, 19, fig. 15 (color ill.), 122-23 (ill.), 245, (ill.).

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Piet Mondrian, Nov. 6–Dec. 16, 1946, not in cat.; Kunsthalle Basel, Feb.6–Mar. 2, 1947 (Amsterdam only).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects 20th Century, Oct. 3–Nov. 17, 1963, no cat. no. (as Landscape with Farmhouse).
Art Gallery of Toronto, Piet Mondrian, 1872–1944, Feb. 12–Mar. 20, 1966, not in cat.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Apr. 8–May 9, 1966; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, June 15–Aug. 7, 1966 (Philadelphia only).
Pasadena Art Museum, Serial Imagery, Sept. 17–Oct. 27, 1968, cat. 44; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Museum, Nov. 17–Dec. 22, 1968; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jan. 25–Feb.23, 1969 (as Farm at Duivendrecht, 1906).
Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Mondrian Evolution, June 5–Oct. 9, 2022, no cat. no.; Düsseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein–Westfalen, Oct. 29, 2022–Feb. 12, 2023.

The artist; Dr. Eduard van der Hoop (died 1939) and Lea van der Hoop (died 1938), Amsterdam, c. 1916 [according to notes from Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg included on deed of gift, Nov. 18, 2001, in curatorial object file]; by descent to Dolly J. van der Hoop, Amsterdam [list of lenders to Amsterdam 1946, Stedelijk Museum, Library and Archives, copy in curatorial object file]; by marriage to Isaac (died 1973) and Dolly J. van der Hoop Schoenberg (died 2014, Madison, WI), 1950; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.

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