Jan van Heel artwork • painting • for sale Clowns
Jan van Heel
Rotterdam 1898-1990 Den Haag
1898-1990
Clowns
oil on canvas 100.1 x 70.3 cm, signed l.c. and to be dated ca. 1945
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 3,500
Literature: W. Schrofer, 'Jan van Heel', 's-Gravenhage 1946, cat.nr. 25, afb. 25.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 'Kunst in vrijheid', sept.-okt. 1945, cat.nr. 270.
The Hague painter Jan van Heel originally painted in a tempered Expressionist style. After a sojourn in Paris in 1946 he gradually abandoned figuration for an entirely personal idiom. He mainly used earthy colours, like russet browns, ochres and yellows for his landscapes, figures and still lifes. Van Heel was extremely active in The Hague artists’ societies Verve and Fugare, in which members were united in trying to break with pre-war artistic convention. However they were less radical than the Amsterdam Experimentalists and the Cobra group.
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