Willem Maris artwork • painting • for sale Ducks settling down on a polder canal
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
Ducks settling down on a polder canal
oil on panel 36.6 x 25.7 cm, signed l.r.
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 9,200
Literature: tent.cat. 's-Hertogenbosch, Kunsthandel Borzo, 'Jubileumtentoonstelling: Impressionisten', 1974, cat.nr. 68.
Exhibited: 's-Hertogenbosch, Kunathandel Borzo, 'Jubileumtentoonstelling: Impressionisten', 27 april-18 mei 1974.
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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