Jan Mankes artwork • prints & multiples • for sale Four mice
Jan Mankes
Meppel 1889-1920 Eerbeek
1889-1920
Four mice
etching 23.6 x 15.8 cm, signed l.r. and executed 1916
Price: € 1,200
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Jan Mankes, who died of tuberculosis at a young age, was a solitary individual in Dutch art. In 1903 he began working as an apprentice at a Delft stained-glass atelier but in 1908 chose to be a full-time artist instead. He withdrew to his parental home in the Friesian countryside, where he created small, finely painted works of landscapes, people, animals and flowers. His work is characterised by an immense restraint and stillness. It has a dreamlike quality, is vaguely symbolic and, above all, delicate.
