Hendrik Willem Mesdag artwork • painting • for sale Departure of the fishing fleet, Scheveningen
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Groningen 1831-1915 Den Haag
1831-1915
Departure of the fishing fleet, Scheveningen
oil on canvas 50.5 x 40.5 cm, signed l.r.
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 100.000 or above
Provenance: kunsthandel James Connell & Sons, Glasgow; veiling Phillips, Glasgow, 17 okt. 1990, lotnr. 69; Rob Kattenburg Gallery, Breukelen, 1992; coll. Hein en Toni Besselaar, Princeton/Den Haag; part. bezit Verenigde Staten.
Literature: Johan Poort, 'Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915). Oeuvrecatalogus supplement', Wassenaar 1997, pag. 63, afb. 2013.26; Johan Poort, 'Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915). De Schilder van de Noordzee', Wassenaar 2001, afb. in kleur pag. 102, Poortnr. 2013.26; Johan Poort, 'Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915). Oeuvrecatalogus in beeld', Wassenaar 2001, pag. 40, afb. 610/2013.26.
Exhibited: Maastricht, Rob Kattenburg Gallery, The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), 1992.
Mesdag at his best: a blue sky, a turbulent North Sea, and Scheveningen barges. From Scheveningen via Scotland and the American city of Princeton back to the Netherlands. 'You have to see the sea before you, live with it every day, otherwise it will amount to nothing.' H.W. Mesdag
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