Lot Essay
Loosjes-Terpstra wrote about the painting 'Herfst', now in the Kröller-Müller Museum, a text which could have been written for the painting in the present lot
"Toorop held on to the principles of Signac. His return to pure divisionism can be seen in works with subjects from Zealand, all from 1908.
They have all been painted with the same procedure: the canvas has first been covered with a reddish-brown colour, over this layer the whole composition is layed out in squares, brick-like brushstrokes in light, clear colours. The result is strikingly mosaic-like.(....)
In the painting erfst the outlines of trees, the road and the peasant-girls are dissolved in a pall mall of dots and squares. Rose, orange and yellow spots give the impression of sunlight and shadow."
(See A.B. Loosjes-Terpstra, Moderne Kunst in Nederland 1900-1914, Utrecht 1984, p. 12 - 13)
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist's work being prepared by G.W.C. van Wezel
See colour illustration
"Toorop held on to the principles of Signac. His return to pure divisionism can be seen in works with subjects from Zealand, all from 1908.
They have all been painted with the same procedure: the canvas has first been covered with a reddish-brown colour, over this layer the whole composition is layed out in squares, brick-like brushstrokes in light, clear colours. The result is strikingly mosaic-like.(....)
In the painting erfst the outlines of trees, the road and the peasant-girls are dissolved in a pall mall of dots and squares. Rose, orange and yellow spots give the impression of sunlight and shadow."
(See A.B. Loosjes-Terpstra, Moderne Kunst in Nederland 1900-1914, Utrecht 1984, p. 12 - 13)
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist's work being prepared by G.W.C. van Wezel
See colour illustration