Willem Bastiaan Tholen artwork • painting • for sale Winter in old Scheveningen
Willem Bastiaan Tholen
Amsterdam 1860-1931 Den Haag
1860-1931
Winter in old Scheveningen
oil on canvas 100.1 x 160.4 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1891
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 50,000 - € 100,000
Provenance: vermoedelijk Kunsthandel D. Sala & Zonen, Den Haag; Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, 's-Gravenhage; Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, 1999; coll. B. Meijer, Wassenaar, inv.nr. 251; part. bezit Nederland.
Literature: ‘Bij de afbeeldingen naar W.B. Tholen’, ‘Elsevier’s Geïllustreerd Maandschrift' 3, vol. VI (1893), afb. pag. 245; H. de Boer, ‘W.B. Tholen’, ‘Op de hoogte’, Vol. 22, 1925, afb. pag. 250-254; R.S. Bakels, ‘W.B. Tholen, 150 reproducties naar werken van zijn hand, den kunstenaar op zijn 70sten verjaardag aangeboden', 's-Gravenhage 1930, pag. 379, cat.nr. 11 (als 'Scheveningen in den winter', 1891') met afb. voorin; Pieter A. Scheen, ‘Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1950’, 's-Gravenhage 1970, afb. 353.
Willem Bastiaan Tholen was a pupil of Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel. His early landscapes, painted around Giethoorn and Kampen, bear the clear stamp of his teacher. Later he painted mostly portraits and woodland, town and coastal scenes in a painterly style and bright palette. After 1895 Tholen would take his sailboat, the Eudia, on meandering trips over the old Zuiderzee and the rivers and waterways of Zealand and Holland, painting countless views of ports and the water.
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