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Henk Chabot artwork • painting • previously for sale The presecuted

Chabot H.  | Hendrik 'Henk' Chabot, The presecuted, oil on canvas 45.6 x 64.0 cm, signed u.r. and painted in 1944
Chabot H.  | Hendrik 'Henk' Chabot, The presecuted, oil on canvas 45.6 x 64.0 cm, signed u.r. and painted in 1944

Henk Chabot

The presecuted
oil on canvas 45.6 x 64.0 cm, signed u.r. and painted in 1944

This painting was previously for sale.

Provenance: coll. kunstenaar Dick Elffers (1910-1990), Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in bruikleen 1973-2010.
Literature: tent.cat. 'Hendrik Chabot', Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen/Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum/Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum/Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1951, cat.nr. 61 (met afb.); tent.cat. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 'Chabot schilderijen '40-'45: oorlog is buiten de wet', 1970, cat.nr. 28; Kees Vollemans, 'Chabot. De maan en het oog', Amsterdam 1991, afb. in kleur pag. 52.
Exhibited: 'Hendrik Chabot', Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1951/Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1951/ Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, 10 nov.-10 dec. 1951/Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1952; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 'Chabot schilderijen '40-'45: oorlog is buiten de wet', 25 april-5 juli 1970.

The fact that Hendrik Chabot lived near Rotterdam did not encourage him to paint the vital, active city life. Rather, he focused on figures, peasants and workers, and finally also on landscapes. In particular, he found inspiration in the flat polders around Bergschenhoek, where his studio was located. His landscapes, strongly set up under high, worked-out skies, express a fierce emotion towards his subject, to which color and form were added. The emphatic touch of his brushstrokes and the bright opulence of his yellow, ocher, brown and green were the means for this. What was dear to his heart was to give shape to the connection between man and nature.


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