The Balalaika Players by Isaac Israels

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The Balalaika Players 1890 - 1910

Isaac Israels

Huile sur toile originale
79 ⨯ 62.50 cm
ConditionExcellent
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Sur l'oeuvre d'art
Jozef Israëls’s son, Isaac Israëls was raised on a diet of painting and travel. At thirteen, he entered art school in The Hague, where his prodigious talent was soon noticed. In 1881, he began a painting that was purchased before it was completed by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. In 1886, Israëls enrolled at Amsterdam’s Art Academy, where he was considered ‘too good’.

Israëls often spent the summer months with his father in Scheveningen, where he painted seaside scenes in bright colours. In Amsterdam, Israëls spent much of his time with George Hendrik Breitner. Both were fascinated by the idea of portraying city life by capturing a passing moment in time. To convey the sense of a snapshot, they cropped their subjects abruptly. Israëls was in Paris, London and briefly in the Dutch East Indies from 1903 to 1923. He then returned to The Hague and took over his father's studio. There he remained, producing impressionist paintings in light colours.

Israëls was a frequent visitor to theatres and concerts, which allowed him to depict the vivid lives of artists of all genres from all around the world. This painting portrays two folk artists from the cossack orchestra, which performed in Paris around 1910.
Sur l'artiste
Isaac Israels est né à Amsterdam en 1865, fils du peintre Jozef Israels. Au début de sa vie, sa famille a déménagé à La Haye. Au cours de sa vie d'artiste, Isaac a échangé «la palette grise» de l'école de Haagse (l'école de La Haye) contre une palette plus colorée et plus vivante. Israels était associé au mouvement impressionniste d'Amsterdam. Entre 1880 et 1882, il étudie à la Royal Academy of Art de La Haye, où il rencontre George Hendrik Breitner qui deviendra un ami de toujours. Il est retourné à Amsterdam où il a été invité à rejoindre les Kring der Tachtigers (le groupe des quatre-vingts). Les paysages urbains avec la vie de rue d'Amsterdam et parisienne, les dames à la mode, les intérieurs de cafés et les ateliers de couture sont parmi ses scènes les plus populaires. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus importants impressionnistes hollandais. Isaac Israels est décédé en 1934 à La Haye.

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