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Anton Rooskensartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsman • printmakerHorst 1906-1976 Amsterdam

biography of Joseph Antoon 'Anton' Rooskens

Anton Rooskens had been working as an artist for some time when, in 1945, he made a radical turnabout and began working in a free, unfettered idiom. This led to him to joining the Netherlands Experimental Group and then the Cobra artists. Rooskens drew inspiration for his abstract expressionist pictures from ‘primitive’ African and pre-Columbian art, which had been discovered by many artists after the war. Thus, idols, masks, shields and typical African ornament can be found in nearly all his works of the 40s and 50s, which are also dominated by a lively interplay of lines and liberal use of black. After 1965 the compositions become increasingly colorful. The shapes often have black outlines, and bird motifs in red, yellow and blue are used extensively.


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Anton Rooskens | Composition, oil on board, 49.6 x 35.2 cm, painted ca. mid 50s

Anton Rooskens

painting • for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.1 x 49.7 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

prints & multiples • for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.0 x 49.6 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

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Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, lithograph, 70.0 x 49.6 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '73 (in pencil)

Anton Rooskens

prints & multiples • for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Figures, gouache on paper, 37.5 x 49.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '68

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Figures


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Anton Rooskens | Flower still life, oil on canvas, 60.0 x 50.6 cm, signed l.l.

Anton Rooskens

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Flower still life

Anton Rooskens | Flowers in a vase, oil on canvas, 89.8 x 75.2 cm, signed l.r. and late 1930s

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Flowers in a vase

Anton Rooskens | Chrysanthemums, oil on canvas, 90.0 x 75.4 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1938-1941

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Chrysanthemums

Anton Rooskens | Figure and bird, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 61.8 x 48.2 cm, signed u.r. and dated '61

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painting • previously for sale

Figure and bird

Anton Rooskens | Farmer and chicken, oil on canvas, 40.2 x 50.0 cm, signed u.r. and dated '72

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Farmer and chicken

Anton Rooskens | Composition, oil on paper, 47.8 x 64.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated '64

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painting • previously for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | 'Penthouse', oil on board, 100.5 x 121.5 cm, signed u.r. and dated '55

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'Penthouse'

Anton Rooskens | Composition, oil on board, 80.0 x 100.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated '58

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painting • previously for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Untitled, oil on panel, 25.0 x 20.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated '74

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Untitled

Anton Rooskens | Composition, oil on canvas, 59.0 x 78.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '70

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painting • previously for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Figure with birds, oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '71

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painting • previously for sale

Figure with birds

Anton Rooskens | Abstract composition, oil on canvas, 50.0 x 61.0 cm, signed u.r. and dated '51

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painting • previously for sale

Abstract composition

Anton Rooskens | South Sea Motif, oil on canvas, 56.0 x 70.2 cm, signed u.l. and dated '51

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South Sea Motif

Anton Rooskens | Untitled, gouache on paper, 58.7 x 49.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '72

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Untitled

Anton Rooskens | Singing bird, gouache on paper, 64.2 x 49.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '74

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watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Singing bird

Anton Rooskens | Untitled, gouache on paper, 36.5 x 49.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '70

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Untitled

Anton Rooskens | Composition, gouache on paper, 31.7 x 43.5 cm, signed l.c. and dated '53

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Composition, gouache on paper laid down on board, 16.0 x 46.4 cm, signed l.r. and dated '56

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Composition

Anton Rooskens | Spring, ink and gouache on paper, 64.7 x 49.7 cm, signed l.r. and dated '72

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Spring

Anton Rooskens | Composition with bird, gouache on paper, 48.7 x 63.8 cm, signed l.l. and dated '74

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Composition with bird

Anton Rooskens | Untitled, watercolour and gouache on paper, 37.5 x 50.5 cm, signed l.r. and painted '70

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Untitled

Anton Rooskens | Abstract composition, gouache on paper, 42.8 x 22.0 cm, signed m.l. and dated '54

Anton Rooskens

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Abstract composition


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