Leo Gestel artwork • painting • previously for sale A summer day near Montfoort
Leo Gestel
Woerden 1881-1941 Hilversum
1881-1941
A summer day near Montfoort
oil on canvas 70.6 x 55.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '09
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. prof. dr. Piet Visser (1919-2008), hoogleraar psychofysiologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en hoogleraar experimentele fysiologie aan de Université Libre in Brussel.
Literature: Antoon Erftemeijer, ‘Zó Hollands. Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850’, Haarlem 2011, afb. in kleur pag. 1 en pag. 70.
Exhibited: Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen, 'Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst van 1850 tot heden', 24 juni-11 sept. 2011.
Leo Gestel’s work shows influences from Impressionism, Luminism, Fauvism and Cubism. His talent, however, ensures an entirely personal, Dutch interpretation of these international art movements. Along with Jan Sluijters he is considered one of the two leading Dutch modernists. After 1915 he worked mainly in Bergen and was part of the Bergen School. He is best known for his landscapes, still lifes and portraits. His work is represented in almost every leading Dutch museum.
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