Isaac Israels artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A portrait of Lola Cornero, Scheveningen
Isaac Israels
Amsterdam 1865-1934 Den Haag
1865-1934
A portrait of Lola Cornero, Scheveningen
watercolour on paper 47.2 x 30.0 cm, signed l.r. and painted circa 1919
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. mr G. Cohen Tervaert, Bussum; coll. J.M.P. Glerum, Amsterdam, inv.nr. A 156; veiling deel nalatenschap J.M.P. Glerum bij Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 1933.
Literature: J.H. Reisel, 'Isaac Israels. Portret van een Hollandse impressionist', Amsterdam 1967, afbeelding op pag. 171; S. de Bodt, J. Kapelle e.a., 'Isaac Israels. Hollands impressionist', Rotterdam 1999, pag. 78, afb. 106 (in kleur); Antoon Erftemeijer, 'Israels aan zee: Hollandse en Italiaanse strandtaferelen van Isaac Israels (1865-1934)', Haarlem 2007, pag. 36 (met afb. 42 in kleur op pag. 37).
Exhibited: Rotterdam, Kunsthal, 'Isaac Israels. Hollands impressionist', sept. 1999-jan. 2000; Scheveningen, Museum Panorama Mesdag, 'Schilderkunst in Scheveningen', mei-sept. 2000; Haarlem, De Hallen, 'Israels aan zee: Hollandse en Italiaanse strandtaferelen van Isaac Israels (1865-1934), 9 juni-19 aug. 2007.
Isaac Israels, together with George Hendrik Breitner, was the leading representative of the group of Amsterdam Impressionists. He painted fragments of city life he captured in the capital’s shopping streets, coffee houses and café-chantants, where busy urban living was played out. In a few apt charcoal lines or quick, spontaneous brushstrokes, with subtle colour accents, he captured everything he saw. Israels also painted beach scenes at Scheveningen and was an adept portrait artist. In 1903 he settled in Paris for several years.
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