Lilies

细节

Jacobus van Looy (Dutch, 1855-1930)
Lilies
signed twice 'Jac v Looy' (lower right)
oil on canvas
53 x 137 cm.

来源

See previous lot.

出版

Schilderijen en Teekenwerk van Jacobus van Looy in het "Huis Van Looy" te Haarlem, 1934, p. 4.
J. van der Smit (ed.), Jacobus van Looy, 1855-1930. 'Niets is zoo mooi als zien..', Haarlem 1998, no's. 41 and 109, pp. 136 and 158, ill.

展览

Haarlem, Huis Van Looy, 1934-1948/49 (where hanging in the Great Room, on loan).
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Jacobus van Looy, 1855-1930. 'Niets is zoo mooi als zien...', 19 December 1998-7 maart 1999, no. 109, ill.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Van Looy's oeuvre includes a large number of decorative paintings filled with compositions of flowers or fruit, viewed in close-up. Most of them were painted at the second Haarlem home of the artist and his wife Titia van Gelder, to which they moved in 1913. In the garden of this house and studio in Kleine Houtweg, built to their specifications, Titia grew a large variety of plants whose flowers and fruit Van Looy painted, often en plein air. These works they generally kept, to adorn their own interior.

The elongated painting Lelies may be regarded as a precursor of the type of work the artist was later to produce in Haarlem. At that time he was living in Soest, before the couple moved in 1907 to their first house in Haarlem. According to Titia's notes, he painted the lilies outside in the garden.

Van Looy repeated the motif of white lilies in other works, such as a four-panel polyptych combining white and red lilies with red poppies, which he executed in 1914 (collection Stichting Jacobus van Looy, Haarlem).

We are grateful to Drs Wiepke Loos for writing the catalogue note.