Gerrit Benner artwork • painting • for sale Farm yard
Gerrit Benner
Leeuwarden 1897-1981 Nijemirdum
1897-1981
Farm yard
oil on canvas 60.0 x 75.2 cm, signed on the reverse
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 22,000
Provenance: Stichting Kunst en Bedrijf, Amsterdam, alwaar verworven voor de coll. Koninklijke Shell, Den Haag in 1985.
Literature: Erik P. Hermida e.a., 'Modern art travels East-West: Corporate collections from Singapore and the Netherlands', Stichting Onderneming & Kunst, Haarlem 1990, pag. 126 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Rotterdam, Beurs, 'Modern art travels East-West: Corporate collections from Singapore and the Netherlands', 7-24 Juni 1990.
The subject matter of Gerrit Benner’s paintings was nearly always the Frisian landscape with its sweeping horizons, farmhouses, dunes and cattle grazing on the land. At the same time he was not concerned with purely depicting reality, but expressing his deep admiration for this kind of nature in simple forms and using the same four or five colours. Benner was self taught and worked in the culturally fairly isolated province of Friesland until 1953, when he moved to Amsterdam. Here he was absorbed into the post-war renewal movement that dominated the city’s artistic climate at the time.
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