Han van Meegeren artwork • painting • previously for sale Christ blesses the poor and the ill
Han van Meegeren
Deventer 1889-1947 Amsterdam
1889-1947
Christ blesses the poor and the ill
oil on painter's board 60.3 x 48.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1922
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part. bezit Duitsland.
Han van Meegeren became known for his forgeries of Vermeer in the 1930s and 1940s, which managed to fool even experts. As a result, his own artistic talent has often been overlooked. He produced drawings, watercolours and oils of mainly impressionistic genre scenes, scenes of fashionable life and romanticised Biblical representations, and was also much in demand as a portrait painter.
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