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Johannes Carolus Bernardus 'Jan' Sluijters
Den Bosch 1881-1957 Amsterdam
Kermesse à la Porte Maillot, Paris, oil on canvas 35 x 27,3 cm., signed l.r. and dated 1906

Annotatie: 'Kermesse à la Porte Maillot'.
Provenance: coll S.B. Slijper, Blaricum.
Literature: Jubileumuitgave 25 jaar Simonis&Buunk Kunsthandel: een Keur aan Kunst', Ede/Zwolle 2003, nr. 17 (met afb. in kleur); Ingelies Vermeulen e.a., 'Nachtlicht. De schilders van het nieuwe licht 1880-1940', Haarlem 2010, afb. in kleur pag. 108, pag. 126.

Jan Sluijters along with Gestel and Mondrian belongs to the first early modernists. He trained at the Amsterdam Rijksacademie. He then moved to Paris (1904-1907) where his introduction to the work of Van Gogh, Cézanne and the Fauves, including Gauguin, led to him developing an entirely new visual idiom. Sluijters sought to express powerful inner feelings in his work by changing visible forms and applying an exuberant, non-realistic use of colour. Landscapes only occur in his earlier work: later he had a distinct preference for still-lifes, nudes and portraits.