Anton Koster artwork • painting • previously for sale Hyacinths and tulipfields, Overveen
Anton Koster
Terneuzen 1859-1937 Haarlem
1859-1937
Hyacinths and tulipfields, Overveen
oil on canvas 60.0 x 73.2 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Koningin Emma (1858-1934), Paleis Soestdijk, daarna door vererving in bezit gekomen van Koningin Juliana; nalatenschap H.K.H. Prinses Juliana (1909-2004), Koningin der Nederlanden van 1948 tot 1980. Thans collectie Rose-Marie en Eijk de Mol van Otterloo.
Literature: Antoon Erftemeijer, ‘Zó Hollands. Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850’, Haarlem 2011, afb. in kleur pag. 41; Floor de Graaf, 'Anton L. Koster (1859-1937). Schilder van bloembollenvelden', Zwolle 2017, pag. 93 en pag. 91, afb. 94 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen, 'Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst van 1850 tot heden', 24 juni-11 sept. 2011; Lisse, Museum De Zwarte Tulp, 'Naar de bollen. Anton L. Koster, schilder van bollenvelden', 16 sept. 2017-29 april 2018.
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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