Golden Afternoon
55.9 cms x 81.3 cms (22 ins x 32 ins)
Signed and on verso inscribed "14278" and stamped
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "October 2016 Online auction" held on Thu, Oct 27, 2016.
Lot 001
Lot 001
Estimate: CAD $30,000 - $50,000
Did not sell
Did not sell
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, 1958
Private Collection, Montreal
Private Collection, Ontario
Notes:
Bernardus Johannes Blommers was a second generation Hague School painter and etcher who studied at The Hague Academy of Art. His father, lithographer Pieter Blommers, operated a print shop in The Hague, and taught Bernardus printmaking.
In the early part of his career, Blommers painted the everyday life of fisherman and their families at the village of Scheveningen, just outside of The Hague, where he established a studio with a reconstructed interior of a fisherman's cottage. As the area around The Hague became built up, he moved to the fishing village of Katwijk, 10 miles north of the city. Katwijk, with its beaches and expansive views of the North Sea, was so attractive to painters that a large artist's colony developed there. Blommers's portrayal of fisherfolk in these locations was natural and realistic, and imbued with the kind of warmth and empathy that we see in this evocative image of young women reclining in the grasses at the edge of the beach, who are gazing at the fishing boats offshore.
Blommers's genre paintings of this subject achieved an international following. His work was handled by Knoedler Gallery in Paris and New York. His paintings are in the collections of museums such as the Rijksmuseum, the Dordrecht Museum, the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, the Central Museum and the Frans Hals Museum.
A copy of the original Watson Art Galleries invoice, dated February 19, 1958, will be included with this lot. Please note the condition report for this work.
Watson Art Galleries, Montreal, 1958
Private Collection, Montreal
Private Collection, Ontario
Notes:
Bernardus Johannes Blommers was a second generation Hague School painter and etcher who studied at The Hague Academy of Art. His father, lithographer Pieter Blommers, operated a print shop in The Hague, and taught Bernardus printmaking.
In the early part of his career, Blommers painted the everyday life of fisherman and their families at the village of Scheveningen, just outside of The Hague, where he established a studio with a reconstructed interior of a fisherman's cottage. As the area around The Hague became built up, he moved to the fishing village of Katwijk, 10 miles north of the city. Katwijk, with its beaches and expansive views of the North Sea, was so attractive to painters that a large artist's colony developed there. Blommers's portrayal of fisherfolk in these locations was natural and realistic, and imbued with the kind of warmth and empathy that we see in this evocative image of young women reclining in the grasses at the edge of the beach, who are gazing at the fishing boats offshore.
Blommers's genre paintings of this subject achieved an international following. His work was handled by Knoedler Gallery in Paris and New York. His paintings are in the collections of museums such as the Rijksmuseum, the Dordrecht Museum, the Kröller-Müller Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, the Central Museum and the Frans Hals Museum.
A copy of the original Watson Art Galleries invoice, dated February 19, 1958, will be included with this lot. Please note the condition report for this work.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.