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Willy Boers artwork • painting • previously for sale Imaginative activity

Willy Boers

Imaginative activity
oil on canvas 60.0 x 58.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1949

This painting was previously for sale.

Provenance: veiling Christie's, Amsterdam, 22 mei 1990, lotnr. 120; coll. H. Klasema, Bergen op Zoom.
Literature: tent.cat. Amsterdam, Kunstzaal Van Lier, 'Frans en Willy Boers', 1949, cat.nr. 9; Hans Redeker 'Creatie', 'Vrij Nederland', 31 jan. 1953; Elmyra M.H. van Dooren, 'Willy Boers 1905-1978', Naarden 1995, pag. 306.
Exhibited: Amsterdam, Kunstzaal Van Lier, 'Frans en Willy Boers', 16 maart-13 mei 1949; Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, 'Creatie', 17 jan.-1 maart 1953; Antwerpen, België, Toonzolder, 'Willy Boers, schilderijen, gouaches, tekeningen', 2-15 sept. 1955.

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.


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