Eugène Brands artwork • painting • previously for sale Boy with guitar
Eugène Brands
Amsterdam 1913-2002
1913-2002
Boy with guitar
oil on canvas 75.4 x 60.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated on the stretcher 1970
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1975, inv.nr. 11836; coll. Wolters-Schweitzer, Bilthoven.
Just when you expect Brands to have left figuration behind, he paints this 'Boy with Guitar' in 1970. A dreamy figure with a musical instrument appears against a light background in a warm color palette, but just as you think you've almost seen it in focus, it fades softly into the background.
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