Willem Adriaan Paerels
"Scheveningen Boulevard"
WILLEM PAERELS
Delft 1878-1962 Eigenbrakel
SCHEVENINGEN BOULEVARD
1907
Oil on canvas
70 x 70 cm.
Signed: lower right 'Paerels'
Provenance: Collectie M. Jefferys, Brussel (voor 1924); Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, Antwerpen; Private collection, België
Literature: Moerman, Willem Paerels 1878-1962: retrospectieve tentoonstelling georganiseerd in het raam van het Nederlands-Belgisch Cultureel Akkoord, Brussel [etc.] 1978, p. 21, no. 11: dated ’1907’ by the artist in his notes
Exhibited: Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles), Willem Paerels, September 17 1968-October 01 1968 and Amersfoort (Zonnehof), October 5 1968-November 4 1968; Brussels (Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België), March 03 1978 – April 16 1978 and Laren (Singer Museum), April 30 1978-June 11 1978, Willem Paerels 1878-1962: retrospectieve tentoonstelling georganiseerd in het raam van het Nederlands-Belgisch Cultureel Akkoord
Paerels is once called ‘the sensual of colour’. He began in an impressionist style, but after his entrance to La Libre Esthétique and his acquaintance with the French fauvists his palette changed. With Rik Wouters, Paerels is accounted one of the ‘Brabantse fauvisten’. However, Paerels considered himself first and for all impressionist.
Previous to the First World War, the had great success in Antwerp and Brussels. After spending the years of the war in The Netherlands (Scheveningen) with his parents, he lowered his colours.