Dick Ket artwork • painting • previously for sale A still life with books and flowers in a ginger jar
Dick Ket
Den Helder 1902-1940 Bennekom
1902-1940
A still life with books and flowers in a ginger jar
oil on canvas 36.5 x 28.0 cm, signed l.l. and painted between 1925-1926
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Metzenmaeker, Best; Kunsthandel Borzo, Den Bosch, 1979.
Literature: W.J. de Gruyter en J. Mekkink, 'Dick Ket 1902-1904', Wageningen 1962 (herz. 1968, nr. 39a); Tableau 5 (1979), pag. 27 met afb.; A. Ottevanger en M. Mekkink, 'Dick Ket. Over zijn leven, ideëen en kunst', Zwolle 1994, pag. 153, nr. 37, met afb.
Exhibited: Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum, 'Dick Ket', 1962, nr. 39a. Najaarstentoonstelling 1998.
Dick Ket is best known as a painter of meticulously painted still lifes and portraits. These appeared after 1930, when due to the effects of a heart condition he was forced to withdraw to his studio. Before then, from 1919 on, he was an ebullient painter, rendering his impressions spontaneously onto canvas in deft brush strokes. He chiefly painted landscapes and cityscapes and often painted outdoors.
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