Willem Maris artwork • painting • for sale A polder landscape with farmer and barge
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
A polder landscape with farmer and barge
oil on canvas 66.3 x 94.5 cm, painted ca. 1906
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 15,000
Provenance: mevrouw A.J.G. Maris-van Bijlevelt; Kunsthandel A.H. Bies, Eindhoven.
Literature: tent.cat. Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 'Maris Tentoonstelling', 1935, pag. 95, cat.nr. 288; Joost Bergman, Nico de Reus, 'Willem Maris. Impressionist van de Haagse School', Zwolle/Den Haag 2012, pag. 55, pag. 117 (met afb. in kleur op pag. 115).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 'Maris Tentoonstelling', 22 dec. 1935-2 febr. 1936; Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, 'Willem Maris (1844-1910) - Impressionist van de Haagse School', 21 jan.-9 april 2012; Winterswijk, Villa Mondriaan, 'Mondriaan en Maris: De erfelijke last van Simon', 29 apr.-25 sept. 2022.
Willem Maris was the younger brother of Jacob and Matthijs, with whom he shared a studio in The Hague. He preferred to paint landscapes abounding in water, with ducks or cattle in marshy pastures on a ditch or watercourse. Maris was mainly concerned in conveying the way in which light touched his subjects. ‘I don’t paint cows, I paint the effects of light’, he once said about his work. For this reason he is sometimes called the ‘Impressionist’ of the Hague School.
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