Jan de Boer artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Psyche
Jan de Boer
Harlingen 1877-1946 Hoorn
1877-1946
Psyche
pastel on paper laid down on cardboard 40.0 x 49.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated '25
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Literature: Frans Hendriks, 'Jan de Boer', 'De Wereldpost' 25 maart 1926, afb. pag. 930-931.
'Painter of symbolic images, mushrooms and deep-sea flora'. This is how the work of the painter Jan de Boer is characterized in 1937. As the son of a merchant captain, De Boer would originally go to sail, but he opted for an artistic career. In 1892 he moved to Amsterdam, where he started working as a decoration and pottery painter and gradually developed as a free artist. Around 1907 his work consisted of heather and forest views and figures in a landscape. Between 1914 and 1916 he took a philosophical study. Then, from 1917 onwards, he painted images based on imagination, the realm of myths and mysticism.
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