Pastel and pencil on paper 77 x 57 cm, signed lower left and dated 1927
Annotation on the reverse:
'De Vriendinnen Leo Gestel 1927'.
Provenance:
A. Gestel-Overtoom, Blaricum; coll. P.A. Regnault, Laren.
Literature:
F.M. Huebner, Opgang 37, Bij het werk van Leo Gestel, 1932, image pag. 580; P. Fierens, l'Art Hollandais Contemporain, Parijs 1933, afbeelding 18; J. Slagter, Leo Gestel, Den Haag 1946, image 18; P. Boyens, Sint-Martens-Latem. Kunstenaarsdorp in Vlaanderen, Sint-Martens-Latem 1998, image pag. 127; J. Bouwhuis, Leo Gestel een onbekende collectie werken op papier, Zwolle 1999, image pag. 98; R. Smithuis, De bewijzen van hun reizen: De Bergense School op reis in de jaren twintig, Bergen 2007, image pag. 66.
Leo Gestel is generally referred to as one of the great Dutch Modern artists, a title he bears ex aequo with Jan Sluijters. Leo Gestel was a painter, both in oil and watercolour, and he drew, predominantly landscapes, figures, still-lifes and flowers. He created his own style, heavily influenced by impressionism, luminism, fauvism and cubism. From 1915, Leo Gestel worked in the picturesque Dutch village Bergen, and was a representative of the ...
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