Han van Meegeren artwork • painting • previously for sale Snowball fight
Han van Meegeren
Deventer 1889-1947 Amsterdam
1889-1947
Snowball fight
oil on canvas 63.0 x 71.0 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1944-1945
This painting was previously for sale.
Literature: tent.cat., Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, 'Exposición de Pintura Holandesa Antigua y Contemporanea', 1949, cat.nr. 15 (met afb.); Frederik H. Kreuger, 'Han van Meegeren Revisited. His Art & List of Works', Delft 2010, cat.nr. K118-Aze.6A (met afb. in kleur, als 'Kinderen in de sneeuw')
Exhibited: Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, 'Exposición de Pintura Holandesa Antigua y Contemporanea', maart 1949.
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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