Oil on canvas 70.5 x 90.5 cm, signed lower left and dated 1914
Annotation lower left: ‘Mallorca’.
Provenance:
Private Coll. The Netherlands since ca 1989.
Literature:
Tent. exh. Van Voorst van Beest gallery, Leo Gestel 1881-1941, Den Haag 1989, with image; Jan Rudolph de Lorm, Caroline Roodenburg-Schadd, Leo Gestel, Bussum 2015, image pag. 102; Caroline Roodenburg-Schadd, Leo Gestel op Mallorca, Zwolle 2022, image pag. 41 en 87, cat. nr. S48.
Exhibition:
Laren, Singer museum, Leo Gestel 1881-1941, 25 Jan – 25 May 2015. Bergen, Museum Kranenburgh, Leo Gestel op Mallorca, 16 Apr.-18 Sep. 2022.
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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