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Willy Boers artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Droomhuis (Dream house)

Willy Boers

Droomhuis (Dream house)
gouache on paper 41.8 x 29.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1947

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Provenance: collectie Onno Boers, zoon van de kunstenaar.
Literature: 'Algemeen Dagblad', 31 okt. 1947; Elmyra M.H. van Dooren, 'Willy Boers 1905-1978', Naarden 1995, pag. 326.
Exhibited: Den Haag, Kunstzaal Scherft, '2 Broers exposeren', 18 okt.-8 nov. 1947; Amsterdam, Gebouw Huystee, atelier dr. Leerink, 'Willy Boers, gouaches/P.J. Braat, plastieken', febr.-maart 1948.

The Amsterdam painter Willy Boers was one of the key figures involved in the post Second World War renewal of visual art in the Netherlands. To this end, he became one of the co-founders of the Vrij Beelden (New Images) group in 1946, that also included Hussem, Roëde and Ouburg, and who exhibited regularly at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Vrij Beelden painters chose to work in an abstract and experimental style, freely building on existing movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism. This was in contrast to Cobra artists, who broke away entirely from the prevailing idiom. Boers’ work became completely abstract after 1945, with evident influences from Kandinsky. In 1950, along with artists like Rooskens and Brands, he co-founded the Creation group, in which abstraction and the experimental again played a role. As well as being a naturally talented painter, he was a gifted author, writing many enlightening articles on abstract art.


Willy Boers | Brown with 3 green and 1 purple stripe, collage on paper, 78.0 x 42.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated Aug 1977

Willy Boers

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Brown with 3 green and 1 purple stripe

Willy Boers | Montage en collage I (Montage and collage), collage on paper, 52.7 x 51.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated sept 1974

Willy Boers

watercolour • drawing • for sale

Montage en collage I (Montage and collage)

Willy Boers | Portrait of Frieda Hunziker, oil on canvas, 50.6 x 35.4 cm, signed u.r. and dated 1941

Willy Boers

painting • for sale

Portrait of Frieda Hunziker

Willy Boers | Verloren stad (Lost city), oil on canvas, 75.2 x 59.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated '59

Willy Boers

painting • for sale

Verloren stad (Lost city)

Willy Boers | Vluchtig moment (Fleeting moment), oil on board, 36.7 x 21.8 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1951

Willy Boers

painting • for sale

Vluchtig moment (Fleeting moment)


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