A landscape with houses in Positano - Li Parlatti

After having returned from his first stay in America (1916-1919) Adriaan Lubbers developed a strong friendship with Leo Gestel, under whose influence he started painting in the dark expressionist style of the Bergense school. Both artists and their wives spent the winter of 1923 together, living and working at the Amalfi coast in the South of Italy. In January 1924 Lubbers leaves his company to move to Positano, where he painted the present lot, depicting Li Parlatti, with an accumulation of the stone houses of Positano in the background. His style and use of colour have, by that time, changed to a more Cubist approach. The monograph on Lubbers' work published in 1925 by Italo Tavolato shows the fast recognition the artist obtained in Italy during the period 1924-1926.

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