Jan Mankes artwork • prints & multiples • previously for sale Standing horse
Jan Mankes
Meppel 1889-1920 Eerbeek
1889-1920
Standing horse
copper engraving on paper 14.0 x 17.5 cm, signed l.r. in full (in pencil) and with mon. n the plate and executed in 1917
Literature: A. Plasschaert, Just Havelaar, 'Jan Mankes', Wassenaar 1927, pag. 60; A. Mankes-Zernike, R.N. Roland Holst, 'Jan Mankes', Wassenaar 1928, pag. 63; H.F. Bruydel-Van der Palm e.a., 'Jan Mankes, schilderijen, tekeningen en grafiek', Utrecht 1989, pag. 141; Alied Ottevanger e.a., 'Jan Mankes 1889-1920', Zwolle/Assen/Spanbroek/Arnhem 2007, pag. 229, cat.nr. Ge 25 (met afb., van een ander exemplaar, in kleur).
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.
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