Clown by Isaac Israels
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Clown 1865 - 1934

Isaac Israels

Black chalkPaperChalk
 29 ⨯ 41 cm
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  • About the artwork
    Black chalk on paper, signed
    29 x 41 cm
    In a similar fashion, Isaac Israels created a lithograph which looks like a drawing
  • 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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Artwork details

Category
Works on Paper19th Century Works on Paper
Subject
HumanClownMan
Style
Impressionism19th Century ArtImpressionism (second half 19th)
Material & Technique
Black chalkPaperChalk
Colour
WhiteBlack