Jan Sluijters
"Moeder met kind op arm, Greet met Rob, ca. 1923"
JAN SLUIJTERS
’s-Hertogenbosch 1881-1957 Amsterdam
MOTHER WITH CHILD, GREET WITH ROB
Amsterdam, ca. 1923
Mixed technique on paper
63,5 x 42 cm.
Signed: lower left
This work is included in the catalog raisonné, by Jacqueline de Raad of the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), no. 100963
Provenance: verso ‘Eigendom Elisa Kuyper-Sluijters – moeder met kind op de arm’.
Exhibited: Jan Sluijters 1881-1957, Aquarellen en tekeningen, ’s-Hertogenbosch 08-06-1991-25-08-1991 (Noordbrabants Museum).
Literature: Anita Hopmans, Jan Sluijters 1881-1957, Aquarellen en tekeningen, uitgave bij tentoonstelling ’s-Hertogenbosch 08-06-1991-25-08-1991 (Noordbrabants Museum), Zwolle 1991, p. 185, nr. 132 (ill.).
The artwork of Jan Sluijters is of great importance for Dutch art history. Together with Piet Mondriaan and Leo Gestel, Sluijters was a forerunner in the young avant-garde. From the academy until the First World War, Sluijters experimented with many styles as luminism, fauvism, cubism and expressionism. After the war, he was highly appreciated as a painter of portraits, nudes, flower still lifes and domestic scenes, often with his wife and/or children, in a moderate realistic-expressionistic style.