Willem Maris artwork • painting • previously for sale Willows and ducks flying up
Willem Maris
Den Haag 1844-1910
1844-1910
Willows and ducks flying up
oil on canvas 40.3 x 29.9 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1890-1900
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: coll. C.B. Tilanus, Amsterdam; veiling Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, okt. 1934, lotnr. 1078; coll. B. de Geus van den Heuvel, Nieuwersluis; veiling S.J. Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 'Collectie B. de Geus van den Heuvel', 26 april 1976, lotnr. 294 (met afb.); part bezit Nederland.
Literature: tent.cat. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Van Romantiek tot Amsterdamse School. Schilderijen uit de collectie B. de Geus van den Heuvel', 1958, cat.nr. C.61.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 'Van Romantiek tot Amsterdamse School. Schilderijen uit de collectie B. de Geus van den Heuvel', 7 juli-29 sept. 1958.
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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