"Image" by Willy Boers
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"Image" 1948

Willy Boers

WoodBoardOil paintPaint
 38 ⨯ 46 cm
ConditionExcellent
Price on request

CREATIE ART

  • About the artwork
    "Image"
    1948
    oil on board
    38x46 cm
    signed and dated lower right and also signed, dated and titled verso

    provenance: family of the artist

    lit: -Frans Boers/Willy Boers(1949: not numbered page.
    -Doorbraak van de moderne kunst(Stokvis) 1984: page 135.
    -Willy Boers ( van Dooren) 1995: page 104

  • About the artist

    Willy Boers is a Dutch artist who was born in Amsterdam in 1905, he died in Amsterdam in 1978. He was trained as a restorer but became a self-taught painter, draughtsman and sculptor. Willy also created portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, still-lifes and abstract art. He signed his work with ‘WBoers’. He was a member of the Haagse Kunstkring until 1940 and between 1929 and 1941 he joined the art society De Onafhankelijken.

    In 1946 he established, along with Ger Gerrits, the group Vrij Beelden which included the artists Willem van Hussem, Piet Ouborg and Jan Roëde.

    In 1950 he set up the group Creatie. His work is included in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Cobra Museum in Amstelveen.

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Artwork details

Category
Post-War PaintingsPaintings
Style
Abstract Art Abstract Surrealism (1920s- )
Material & Technique
WoodBoardOil paintPaint
Colour
RedGreen