Anton Koster artwork • painting • previously for sale Working in the tulip fields, Overveen
Anton Koster
Terneuzen 1859-1937 Haarlem
1859-1937
Working in the tulip fields, Overveen
oil on canvas 52.4 x 75.6 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Kunsthandel H.J. van Dijk, Amsterdam.
Literature: vgl.: Floor de Graaf, 'Anton L. Koster (1859-1937). Schilder van bloembollenvelden', Zwolle 2017, pag. 91, afb. 94 en pag. 92, afb. 95; Antoon Erftemeijer, 'Mag het ook mooi zijn?'Haarlemse impressionisten en realisten', Haarlem 2020, afb. in kleur pag. 22; Werner van den Belt, Bob Hardus, 'De schilders van de Duin- en Bollenstreek, Zwolle, 2021, afb. in kleur pag. 153.
Exhibited: Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, 'Mag het ook mooi zijn? Haarlemse impressionisten en realisten', 10 okt. 2020-28 febr. 2021; Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 'Terra Libra', 10 sept. 2023-28 jan. 2024; Lisse, Museum De Zwarte Tulp, 'Anton L. Koster: Tussen de Bollen', 24 maart-8 sept. 2024.
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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