Bernard Pothast artwork • painting • previously for sale Playing with the doll
Bernard Pothast
Hal (België) 1882-1966 Laren (N.H.)
1882-1966
Playing with the doll
oil on canvas 34.9 x 30.4 cm, signed l.r.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: The Cooling Galleries Ltd., Londen; part. bezit Groot-Brittannië.
The Belgium-born painter Bernard Pothast first lived and worked in Amsterdam and then settled in Laren in 1911. There he joined the Laren School, to which painters like Hendrik Kever and Albert Neuhuys had once belonged. He painted the lives of the simple peasant folk in and around the farms and on the land. In particular his interiors of peasant women and children emanate an engaging serenity.
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