Herman Kruyder artwork • painting • previously for sale A still life with a Satsuma statue
Herman Kruyder
Lage Vuursche 1881-1935 Amsterdam
1881-1935
A still life with a Satsuma statue
oil on panel 50.0 x 38.5 cm, signed l.r. and painted before 1916
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Kunsthandel J.H. de Bois, Haarlem; Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam, inv.nr. 13249.
Literature: Laren, Singer Museum, 'Kunstenaars rond Hamdorff 1880-1940', 1886, cat.nr. 96; tent.cat. Amsterdam, Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, 'Stillevens van Renoir tot heden', 1979, cat.nr. 9; tent.cat. Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 'Herman Kruyder (1881-1935): gedoemde scheppingen', 1996, pag. 59, cat.nr. 1.33.
Exhibited: Laren, Singer Museum, 'Kunstenaars rond Hamdorff 1880-1940', 1 dec. 1885-26 januari 1886; Amsterdam, Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, 'Stillevens van Renoir tot heden', 21 april-20 mei 1979.
Originally destined to become a house painter, Herman Kruyder developed into one of the most important representatives of expressionism in the Netherlands. He no longer painted visible reality but his inner life, and used subjects that he derived from the country life around him: the village and the people, animals and flowers. Even the portraits he painted are separate from reality and bear witness to a deep, sometimes almost tormented, inner life.
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