Jan Sluijters artwork • painting • previously for sale A summer bouquet
Jan Sluijters
Den Bosch 1881-1957 Amsterdam
1881-1957
A summer bouquet
oil on canvas 90.7 x 71.3 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1947
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: rechtstreeks verworven door de ouders van de vorige eigenaar (coll. P. Dirkzwager, Schiedam), ca. 1950.
Literature: tent.cat. Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 'Jan Sluijters', 1951, cat.nr. 43 (met afb., als 'Zomerbloemen'); tent.cat. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Jan Sluijters. La Joie de peindre', 1951, cat.nr. 105.
Exhibited: Leiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 'Jan Sluijters', 1 juni-15 juli 1951; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Jan Sluijters. La Joie de peindre', 1951; Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, 'Jan Sluijters', 9 febr.-4 maart 1952.
Jan Sluijters along with Leo Gestel and Piet Mondrian belongs to the first early modernists. He trained at the Amsterdam Rijksacademie. He then moved to Paris (1904-1907) where his introduction to the work of Van Gogh, Cézanne and the Fauves, including Gauguin, led to him developing an entirely new visual idiom. Sluijters sought to express powerful inner feelings in his work by changing visible forms and applying an exuberant, non-realistic use of colour. Landscapes only occur in his earlier work: later he had a distinct preference for still-lifes, nudes and portraits.
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