Jan Sluijters artwork • painting • for sale Landscape near Amsterdam
Jan Sluijters
Den Bosch 1881-1957 Amsterdam
1881-1957
Landscape near Amsterdam
oil on canvas 42.9 x 52.2 cm, signed u.l. with monogram and dated '09 (indistinct)
This painting is for sale.
Provenance: veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17-29 april 1975, lotnr. 638 (als ‘Spoorbaantje’); veiling Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 26-28 april 1977, lotnr. 424 (als ‘Spoorlijntje bij Sloterdijk’); Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut, Amsterdam, ca. 1979; veiling Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 17 dec. 1996, lotnr. 160 (als ‘Station te Sloterdijk’); part. bezit Almelo.
Literature: Jacqueline de Raad, 'Jan Sluijters: het geschilderde oeuvre', RKD Studies 2014 (als 'Landschap in de omgeving van Amsterdam').
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut, 'Najaarstentoonstelling', 15 sept. -28 okt. 1979.
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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