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Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
Springtime, oil on canvas 66 x 111,2 cm., signed l.l. and painted ca. 1875
1215641/Cnsg

Provenance: Kunsthandel C.M. van Gogh, Amsterdam; Veiling Haas & Spliehoff Rotterdam, 5 april 1921, lot. 47; Veiling Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 1923, lot. 105.
Literature: The Masterpieces of James and William Maris, Den Haag [1905]Max Eisler, Munchen 1922, Neuhollandische Kunst, ill. p. 219; Max eisler, 'Willem Maris, 1844-1910', Elsevier's Geillustreerd Maandschrift XLI 1911, p. 87 (met afb.); Joost Bergman, Nico de Reus, 'Willem Maris. Impressionist van de Haagse School', Zwolle/Den Haag 2012, pag. 67 (met afb. in kleur op pag. 66).

Price band: between 50.000 and 100.000 euro

Willem Maris was the younger brother of Jacob and Matthijs, with whom he shared a studio in The Hague. He preferred to paint landscapes abounding in water, with ducks or cattle in marshy pastures on a ditch or watercourse. Maris was mainly concerned in conveying the way in which light touched his subjects. ‘I don’t paint cows, I paint the effects of light’, he once said about his work. For this reason he is sometimes called the ‘Impressionist’ of the Hague School.