George Hendrik Breitner artwork • watercolour • drawing • for sale Standing nude
George Hendrik Breitner
Rotterdam 1857-1923 Amsterdam
1857-1923
Standing nude
charcoal on paper 56.0 x 30.0 cm, signed l.r. with initials and drawn ca. 1900
This work on paper is for sale.
Provenance: atelier Breitner; veiling atelier Breitner, Frederik Muller & Cie., 13 mei 1924, cat.nr. 93; kunsthandel François Buffa & Fils., Amsterdam; kunsthandel Frans Buffa & Zonen, Amsterdam, inv.nr. 6910. Part. coll. Vaud, Zwitserland.
Literature: Literatuur: Adriaan Venema, 'Breitner 1857-1923 afb. pag 76
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Frans Buffa & Zonen, 'Tentoonstelling G.H.Breitner', nov. 1928, cat.nr. 81; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Breitner en Amsterdam', 1947.
G.H. Breitner is an important impressionist painter of Amsterdam’s city views, setting down the street life onto canvas with bold, sweeping brushstrokes. He settled in the capital in 1886. Breitner also painted figures, nudes and military subjects – he was fascinated by horses and their riders. He etched as well but was a major Impressionist chiefly in his watercolours.
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