Edgar Fernhout (1912-1976)

Stilleven met verflap

Details

Edgar Fernhout (1912-1976)
Stilleven met verflap
signed and dated lower right Fernhout 46, and signed and dated again and inscribed with title on the backing
oil on canvas
54 x 38 cm

Provenance

A.v.R. Mackay, Blaricum

Literature

Aloys van den Berk, e.a., Fernhout schilder, Amsterdam 1990, no. 130

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunstzaal Van Lier, E. Fernhout, 2 March - 28 March 1946 Basel, Kunsthalle, Art hollandais moderne, May - June 1946, no. 22 Lausanne, Muse Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Art hollandais moderne, 30 June - 28 July 1946, no. 22
Bern, Kunsthalle, Art hollandais moderne, 3 August - 25 September 1946, no. 22
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Hedendaagse schilderkunst, 1947, no. 9
The Hague, Kunsthandel Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, Edgar Fernhout, 10 - 31 May 1947, no. 10
Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe-museum, Edgar Fernhout, 8 March - 7 April 1963, cat.no.4
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Edgar Fernhout, 3 May - 3 June 1963, no. 4

Lot Essay

After World War II Edgar Fernhout settled in Amsterdam where he found a studio where he would live and work for ten more years. The present lot is one of the few works he produced during this period, in which the development Fernhout had made throughout the war is quite obvious. During these years he made some changes in his style which proved to be essential for the rest of his oeuvre. Little by little he had ceded his perfectionist and extremely meticulous way of painting and tried to find other means of expression. However, in his choice of subject matter he continued focusing on his own living environment and on traditional painterly genres like, in this case, the still life. (Aloys van den Beek, op.cit, Amsterdam, p. 43-52)

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