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Antonie Louis 'Anton L.' Koster
Terneuzen 1859-1937 Haarlem
De tulipfields 'Leeuwenstein', Hillegom, oil on canvas 60 x 73,2 cm., signed l.r.
1115578/Coll.III cv

Annotatie: op spieraam voorzien van inktstempel eigendom Koningin Emma en van domeinbrandmerk Paleis Soestdijk, Groep I, inv.nr. 460, jaren '30 van de 20e eeuw, op lijst voorzien van zegel eigendom Koningin Emma, Appt. 117, inv.nr. 1.
Provenance: coll. koningin Emma (1858-1934), Paleis Soestdijk, Groep I, inv.nr. 460, jaren '30 van de 20e eeuw, Appt. 117, inv.nr. 1, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van koningin Juliana; nalatenschap H.K.H. Prinses Juliana (1909-2004), Koningin der Nederlanden van 1948 tot 1980.

Price band: between 50.000 and 100.000 euro

The landscape artist Anton Koster was born in Zeeland. In 1880 he settled for a time in The Hague, where he trained in painting at the city’s academy of art. He then embarked on a two year, study trip to the Pyrenees. The sense of warm, vibrant colours he encountered there , was practically translated into his work after 1902, when he moved permanently to Haarlem and then settled in nearby Heemstede to concentrate on painting the bulb fields. Even to this day he is still one of the most gifted exponents of the genre.