Anton Mauve artwork • painting • previously for sale Wood gatherer with horse-drawn cart
Anton Mauve
Zaandam 1838-1888 Arnhem
1838-1888
Wood gatherer with horse-drawn cart
oil on canvas 33.8 x 54.1 cm, signed l.r. and painted 1875-1880
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. James Staats Forbes, Esq., Londen; Julius Oehme, New York; coll. Meyer H. Lehman, New York; coll. Mrs. Elsie Lehman Weil, New York; veiling Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 febr. 1958, lotnr. 71 (met afb.), aldaar gekocht door de vader van de vorige eigenaar (part. bezit Verenigde Staten).
Literature: Saskia de Bodt, Michiel Plomp (red.), 'Anton Mauve 1838-1888', Bussum/Haarlem/Laren 2009, pag. 211, cat.nr. 79a; tent.cat. Breda, Breda's Museum, 'In kringen van de jonge Vincent', 2015, cat.nr. 26 (met afb. in kleur); tent.cat. Hannover, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, 'Mythos Heimat. Worpswede und die europäischen Künstlerkolonien', Dresden 2016, pag. 196, afb. 59 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Laren, Singer Museum, 'Anton Mauve', 15 sept. 2009-17 jan. 2010; Breda, Breda's Museum, 'In kringen van de jonge Vincent', 14 juli t/m 1 nov. 2015; Hannover (Duitsland), Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, 'Mythos Heimat. Worpswede und die europäischen Künstlerkolonien', 18 maart-26 juni 2016.
Anton Mauve is one of the foremost painters of the Hague School. He received his training from the animal painters P.F. van Os and Wouterus Verschuur. He also worked for a time in the Gelderland village of Oosterbeek with P.J.C. Gabriel. In his paintings he combines landscape and animals. After some wanderings he settled in The Hague in 1871. Later he moved to Laren, where he painted the heathland with herds of woolly sheep melting into the silver grey tones of the landscape. One of his favourite spots was an area of waste land situated just outside Laren, which later became known as the Mauve Sands.
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