Jan van Heel artwork • painting • previously for sale Dolls
Jan van Heel
Rotterdam 1898-1990 Den Haag
1898-1990
Dolls
oil on canvas 80.0 x 60.2 cm, signed l.c. and dated '54
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, inv.nr. 13-K-1954, inzending voor de Jacob Marisprijs 1954, daarna door het museum verworven; collectie Artoteek, Den Haag, inv.nr. A 10875.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Jan van Heel: schilderijen, gouaches', 1957, cat.nr. 2
Exhibited: Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Jan van Heel: schilderijen, gouaches', 4 okt.-2 dec. 1957.
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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