Willem Maris artwork • painting • previously for sale Morning twilight
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
Morning twilight
oil on panel 41.5 x 66.0 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1869
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. G. Menalda, Hilversum; coll. mevr. Menalda-Cremers, Hilversum; veiling Frederik Muller & Co, Amsterdam, 'Succession Mme. Vve. G. Menalda à Hilversum', 10 nov. 1908, lotnr. 28; coll. mr R.A.W.J.J. Cremers, Hilversum; veiling S.J. Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 6 okt. 1965, lotnr. 398 (met afb.); coll. G.J. Marsman, Hilversum, 1965; Borzo Kunsthandel, Den Bosch, 1979; part. bezit Nederland.
Literature: tent.cat. Oss, Museum Jan Cunen, 'Met de ogen van de schilder', dec. 1982-febr. 1983, cat.nr. 9 (vervangend schilderij); Joost Bergman, Nico de Reus, 'Willem Maris. Impressionist van de Haagse School', Zwolle/Den Haag 2012, pag. 55, pag. 57, afb. 56 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, bruikleen mr R.A.W.J.J. Cremers, jan. 1921-jan. 1929, inv.nr. 228 M; Oss, Museum Jan Cunen, 'Met de ogen van de schilder', dec. 1982-febr. 1983.
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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