Jan Mankes artwork • prints & multiples • for sale Two mice
Jan Mankes
Meppel 1889-1920 Eerbeek
1889-1920
Two mice
copper engraving on paper 10.7 x 13.2 cm, signed l.r. (in pencil) and executed in 1916
Price: € 1,250
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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.
