Anton Koster artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Bulb fields
Anton Koster
Terneuzen 1859-1937 Haarlem
1859-1937
Bulb fields
watercolour on paper 22.2 x 44.5 cm, signed l.r.
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: kunsthandel Francois Buffa & Fils, Amsterdam.
Literature: vgl. Pieter A. Scheen, 'Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars 1750-1950', deel I, Den Haag 1969, afb. 290 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Eelde, Museum De Buitenplaats, 'Bloemen! van Jan Sluijters en tijdgenoten', 3 juli-19 sept. 2010; Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen, 'Denkend aan Holland - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst van 1850 tot heden', 24 juni-11 sept. 2011.
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.
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