Arcadisch landschap

Details

Carel Willink (Dutch, 1900-1983)
Arcadisch landschap
signed and dated 'Willink 1938' (lower right)
oil on canvas
63 x 85.5 cm.

Literature

K. Niehaus, Levende Nederlandsche Kunst, Amsterdam 1942, p. 228 (ill.).
H.L.C. Jaffé, Willink, Amsterdam 1979, p. 222, no. 185 (ill.) and p. 83, no. 194 (ill.).

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Carel van Lier, Carel Willink Jan van Herwijnen, 15 October-3 November 1938.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Carel Willink, 14 October-19 November 1939.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Carel Willink, 12 January-4 February 1951.

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Lot Essay

Hans Jaffé stated in 1979: 'The series of paintings - made in 1935 and later - in which a time eroded sculpture stands before a wide mountainscape, is a variation on the works Straat met Standbeeld (cat.no. 157) and Stadsgezicht (cat.no. 162): The emptiness and desolation are suggested here by the contrast between the larger figure in the foreground placed against a background space which contains no trace of life (....). Arcadisch landschap would appear to be an exception but even this scene follows what Willink notes: 'A sunny landscape, former symbol of pastoral peace can form unbearable menace.' (Jaffé, p. 194)

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