untitled (abstract composition), 1950 – gouache on paper 1950

Willy Boers

GouachePapierPeindre
42 ⨯ 34 cm
ConditionVery good
Prix sur demande

Van Kerkhoff Art

• Sur l'oeuvre d'art
  An original abstract gouache on paper. Painted by Willy Boers in 1950, while in Paris. Signed and dated (front, bottom, right & verso in pensil). Professionally framed in a gilt wooden frame, museumglass.
  
  
  
  About Willy Boers
  
  Willy Boers (Amsterdam 1905 – Amsterdam 1978) was a Dutch painter, sculptor and illustrator considered to be one of the main innovators of post-war Dutch art.
  
  Willy Boers was raised in a prominent Dutch-German family and must have upset his father when he decided to become a painter instead of taking over the family insurance business. He started out restoring paintings and after which he started painting his on works.
  
  In the 1930’s he started out painting figurative works related to the then prominent style of the “Nieuwe Zakelijkheid”. in 1946, Willy Boers founded the artist movement “Vrij Beelden” with Ger Gerrits. By that time Boer’s work has become abstract. In these same years he travelled often to Paris where he gotten to know the work of the prominent French abstract painters of the “École de Paris”.
  
  In Paris he exhibited four times in the “Salon des Réalités Nouvelles”. In the Netherlands he participated in several exhibitions in the Stedelijk Museum with painters like Willem Hussem, Piet Ouborg and Jan Roëde.
  
  In 1949 Boers founded a new artist movement “Creatie”. Members were among others Anton Rooskens and Eugène Brands. Like “Vrij Beelden” the movement was dedicated to “absolute schilderkunst” meaning fully dedicated to abstract art. “Creatie” was the first artists’ association fully committed to non-figurative art. They exhibited their work at Museum Fodor in Amsterdam.
  
  In the 1960’s and 1970’s Boers experimented with geometrical abstraction, collages and matter painting and his work became increasingly influenced by the American abstract expressionists.
  
  
  Signatuur
  Signed and dated 'Willy Boers Paris 23-10-50', front, bottom, right and verso in pensil
  
  Conditie
  Good original condition, some slight ondulation, professionally framed, museumglass
  
  Afmetingen
  Artwork
  Height 42,5 cm
  Width 34,5 cm
  
  Frame
  Height 70 cm
  Width 60 cm
  Depth 3 cm
• Sur l'artiste

  Willy Boers est un artiste hollandais né à Amsterdam en 1905, mort à Amsterdam en 1978. Il a suivi une formation de restaurateur mais est devenu un peintre, dessinateur et sculpteur autodidacte. Willy a également créé des portraits, des paysages, des paysages urbains, des natures mortes et de l'art abstrait.

  Il a signé son travail avec «WBoers». Il a été membre du Haagse Kunstkring jusqu'en 1940 et entre 1929 et 1941, il a rejoint la société d'art De Onafhankelijken. En 1946, il fonde, avec Ger Gerrits, le groupe Vrij Beelden qui comprend les artistes Willem van Hussem, Piet Ouborg et Jan Roëde.

  En 1950, il crée le groupe Creatie. Son travail fait partie des collections du Rijksmuseum d'Amsterdam et du Cobra Museum d'Amstelveen.

  

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