Jan Sluijters artwork • painting • previously for sale Kermesse à la Porte Maillot, Paris
Jan Sluijters
Den Bosch 1881-1957 Amsterdam
1881-1957
Kermesse à la Porte Maillot, Paris
oil on canvas 35.0 x 27.3 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1906
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll S.B. Slijper, Blaricum.
Literature: Jubileumuitgave 25 jaar Simonis&Buunk Kunsthandel: een Keur aan Kunst', Ede/Zwolle 2003, nr. 17 (met afb. in kleur); Ingelies Vermeulen e.a., 'Nachtlicht. De schilders van het nieuwe licht 1880-1940', Haarlem 2010, afb. in kleur pag. 108, pag. 126; Feico Hoekstra e.a., 'Van Gogh tot Cremer. Nederlandse kunstenaars in Parijs', Zwolle 2015, afb. in kleur pag. 41.
Exhibited: Helmond, Gemeentemuseum, 'Maanschemer; avond- en nachtstukken van Nederlandse kunstenaars 1800-1950', jan.-febr. 1999; Ede, Simonis&Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Jubileumtentoonstelling 1978-2003: een Keur aan Kunst', 18-26 april 2003; Laren, Singer Museum, 'De kermis in de 19e- en 20e-eeuwse Nederlandse en Belgische schilderkunst' [werktitel], 9 mei-2 sept. 2007; Zwolle, Museum de Fundatie, 'Van Gogh tot Cremer', 21 sept. 2014-4 jan. 2015.
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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