This is a watercolor by Jan Sluijters, depicting a baby. The work is signed in the middle right. Sluijters, together with Leo Gestel and Piet Mondrian, is considered one of the first Dutch modernists. In the early 20th century, he sought inspiration from the European avant-garde in Paris, where he encountered movements such as Neo-Impressionism, Fauvism, Luminism, Cubism, and Expressionism at the Salon des Indépendants. Over the following fifteen years, he experimented with nearly all of these styles. As an ambitious and highly skilled painter, Sluijters was constantly searching for new forms of expression and played an important role in introducing light and color into Dutch painting.
Dimensions: 32 × 40 cm
Framed dimensions: 58 x 71 cm
Provenance:
Christie’s Amsterdam, 03-09-2002
From a Dutch private collection
