Wouter van Smorenburg artwork • painting • previously for sale A farm in spring
Wouter van Smorenburg
Hilversum 1880-1918 Muiderberg
1880-1918
A farm in spring
oil on canvas 94.5 x 154.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '01
This painting was previously for sale.
Wouter van Smorenburg is one of the painters who were inspired by the polder land and the lakes around Muiderberg and Kortenhoef. Initially he worked in the dark palette of the Hague School, but between 1910 and 1915 he innovated. He transitions to a powerful pointille in short, broad brushstrokes and uses a lighter palette. He depicts apparently simple subjects such as the Dutch water landscape with fields, ditches and willows under moving cloudy skies with bravura and in fine color nuances.
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