Frans Bakker artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Summer in Scheveningen
Frans Bakker
Rotterdam 1871-1944 Den Haag
1871-1944
Summer in Scheveningen
watercolour on paper 24.0 x 34.1 cm, signed l.r. and dated '34
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Born in Rotterdam, Frans Bakker lived and worked in Indonesia from 1920 to 1932, where he became a well-known painter of impressionistic landscapes, harbours and scenes of village life on Java and Sumatra. The sharp eye for detail evinced in these works remained characteristic of his style after returning to the Netherlands. Settling in The Hague, the city itself and the nearby beaches and sea inspired him to produce oil and watercolour paintings that blur the boundaries between townscapes, beachscapes and animated genre scenes.
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