"Violist" by Isaac Israels
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"Violist" 1925

Isaac Israels

Original oil on canvas
127 ⨯ 77 cm
Price on request

Studio 2000 Art Gallery

  • About the artwork
    Oil on canvas
    127 x 77 cm.
    Signed: lower left ‘Isaac Israels’

    Provenance: Private collection, The Netherlands; Kunsthandel Douwes, mei/juni 1974, nr. 16; Kunsthandel Rob Noortman, Hulsberg; vlg. P. Brandt, 22/28 May 1963, p 408, ill. 408.
  • About the artist

    Isaac Israels was born in Amsterdam in 1865, the son of the painter Jozef Israels. Early in his life, his family moved to The Hague. During his life as an artist Isaac exchanged ‘the grey' pallet of the Haagse school (the Hague school) for a more colourful and lively pallet.
    Israels was associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.
    Between 1880 and 1882 he studied at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, where he met George Hendrik Breitner who was to become a lifelong friend.
    He returned to Amsterdam where he was asked to join the Kring der Tachtigers (the group of Eighty). Cityscapes featuring Amsterdam and Parisian street life, fashionable ladies, the interiors of cafés and sewing workshops are amongst his most popular scenes. He is considered to be one of the most important Dutch impressionists.
    Isaac Israels died in 1934 in The Hague.

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