Will Leewens artwork • painting • for sale Figures in a green landscape
Will Leewens
Den Haag 1923-1986
1923-1986
Figures in a green landscape
oil on canvas 60.1 x 80.1 cm, signed l.l.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 4,500
Provenance: Kunsthandel Knoester, Den Haag.
Literature: Ton Knoester en Roelie Knoester-Penninkhof, 'Nieuwe Haagse School', Schiedam/Den Haag 2002, afb. in kleur pag. 140.
Exhibited: Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 'Nieuwe Haagse School', 5 april-28 sept. 2003; Heino, Museum De Fundatie/Het Nijenhuis, 'De lyriek van het landschap – 100 jaar expressionistische landschapsschilderkunst in Nederland, 30 april-2 okt. 2016.
The Hague painter Will Leewens, brother-in-law of Jan Roëde, exhibited together with Willy and Frans Boers, Roëde, Hussem, Ouborg and Nanninga in the post-war years with the experimental artist group 'Vrij Beelden' (1947-1953). Like the members of the CoBrA group, they oppose traditional, figurative art. In the late 1950s, Leewens briefly joined the Informelen. He experiments with new use of materials but remains faithful to his own design language - rectangles and squares. In the years that followed, round shapes and colours dominated in his work, which he arranged side by side.
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