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Wim Oepts artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Study of a woman's head

Oepts W.A.  | Willem Anthonie 'Wim' Oepts, Study of a woman's head, pen on paper 20.0 x 11.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '36

Wim Oepts

Study of a woman's head
pen on paper 20.0 x 11.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '36

This work on paper was previously for sale.

Literature: Marie Louise van Aubel e.a., 'Willem Anthonie Oepts 1904-1988', Zwolle 2011, pag. 249, cat.nr. TK. 037 (met afb.).

Wim Oepts first earned his spurs in the Dutch art world with social-realist paintings. In 1938 he left for Paris where he had painting lessons from Emile-Othon Friesz and became acquainted with the work of Pierre Bonnard and André Derain. There he came to the conclusion that colour was the very essence of painting. This led to a visit to the South of France and his resulting paintings of villages and Mediterranean landscapes are striking for their colourful palette. After 1945 Oepts often worked with violet, bright yellow and cobalt blue, in search of a compromise between figuration and abstraction. In the early seventies his paintings reached their zenith. Oepts had been able to find the correct balance between monumentality and detail.


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