Willem Witsen artwork • painting • for sale The Oude Waal in winter, Amsterdam
Willem Witsen
Amsterdam 1860-1923
1860-1923
The Oude Waal in winter, Amsterdam
oil on panel 30.3 x 44.3 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1912
This painting is for sale.
Price: € 26,500
Provenance: veiling Ade Picard Tajan, 13 april 1989, Parijs; Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, 1933; veiling Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 9 okt. 1934, lotnr. 156 (met afb.).
Literature: tent.cat. Amsterdam, Kunsthandel E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., 'Willem Witsen. Tentoonstelling van zijn werk', 1933, cat.nr. 10 (als 'Oude Waal').
Exhibited: Amsterdam, E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., 'Willem Witsen. Tentoonstelling van zijn werk, okt.-nov. 1933.
Willem Witsen attended the Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, between 1876 and 1884, and there became friends with the painters E. Karsen, Tholen, Breitner and Israels. After a stay in London, where he became acquainted with Whistler’s work, Witsen began painting dreamy, quiet cityscapes in a dark palette that were to become his specialism. Unlike Breitner and Israels’ bustling city impressions, Witsen saw Amsterdam as a monument to timeless beauty. He also painted landscapes and sometimes still lifes and portraits.
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