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Item Number: 133709
Title: Goltzius to Van Gogh : Drawings and Paintings from the P. and N. de Boer Foundation
Author: Buijs, Hans ; Ger Luijten
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789068686685
Description: Bussum: Thoth, 2014. 31cm., hardcover, 277pp. with numerous color plates. English text. Exhibition held at Fondation Custodia, Paris. Summary: The Amsterdam art dealer Piet de Boer (1894-1974) built up a major collection of paintings and rawings during his lifetime, and in 1964 he decided to transfer it to the P. & N. de Boer Foundation. This book contains a choice selection of works that reflects the beadth of what he harvested: from the drawings and paintings by Hendrick Goltzius, Jacques de Gheyn an dmany other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masters, to a small core of works by Vincent van Gogh. His preference was for drawings and paintings of a timeless nature. Many of the sheets he acquired are astonishingly modern and beautifully preserved. The paintings include a group of early flower still lifes, and the drawings too are striking for the flowers, insects and other creatures observed from life that betra De Boer's training as a biologist. A group of art historians contributed the texts for this colourful book, which is intended as a homage to the feeling for quality and great conoisseurship of a collector who followed his own path. In addition to works by the artists mentioned above, there are paintings and drawings by Balthasar van der Ast, Ambroius Bosschaert, Esaias van de Velde, Hendrick Avercamp, Cornelis van Haarlem, Joachim Wtewael, Roelant Savery, Abraham Bloemaert, Albert Cuyp, Rembrandt, and others. Many of them are published here for the first time.
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