Willem de Zwart artwork • painting • for sale The painter's children looking at picture books
Willem de Zwart
Den Haag 1862-1931
1862-1931
The painter's children looking at picture books
oil on canvas laid down on board 33.4 x 29.5 cm, signed l.r.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 10,800
Provenance: kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, inv.nr. 2924, ca. 1905; coll. R.C.A.L. Jansen van Afferden, Den Haag, inv.nr. 181A.
With a choice of subjects rooted in the Hague School paired with a style and use of colour associated with the Amsterdam Impressionists, Willem de Zwart is sometimes referred to as the 'Breitner of The Hague'. His landscapes, figural scenes and still lifes are rendered in deft, bold brushstrokes, thickly applied, sometimes straight from the tube, in vivid shades of lavish red, yellow and blue that imbue his paintings with brilliant life.
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