Harrie Kuijten artwork • painting • for sale Bath carriages on the beach
Harrie Kuijten
Utrecht 1883-1952 Schoorl
1883-1952
Bath carriages on the beach
oil on panel 32.9 x 40.9 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1917-1925
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 10,000 - € 15,000
Provenance: coll. Kees den Tex, Bergen; veiling Glerum, Amsterdam, 29 juni 1995, lotnr. 97; coll. Rob van Vuure.
Literature: Jan Juffermans, 'Harrie Kuyten 1883-1952', Alkmaar 1983, afb. pag. 56; Willem Baars e.a., 'Harrie Kuijten 1883-1952', Amsterdam 1993, pag. 66, cat.nr. 35 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Warmenhuizen, Ursulakerk, 'Strandtaferelen en duinlandschappen', 24 juni-20 aug. 1989; Kortenhoef, Kunst aan de Dijk, 'Harrie Kuyten. Een weerzien in Kortenhoef', 3-25 juni 2023.
Kuijten achieved greatest fame with his swiftly painted beach scenes. Always fascinated by the human figure, he also painted celebrations and colorful market scenes, but primarily beach scenes, in which he shows the sunny side of life. They are generally not large in size and are without exception executed in quick, precise strokes: snapshots of seaside life on the Dutch coast. The way he paints the skies and the movement of the sea with its rolling waves, with the colorful bathers in the surf, are beautiful. From the collection of Kuijten collector Rob van Vuure.
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