Antoon Kruysen (1898–1977) - stilleven

Still life in oil on canvas by Antoon Kruysen (1898–1977), assembled around a dark bottle, onions and other vegetables, a small box and a clay pot. The objects are compactly grouped against a nearly black, reddish-brown background. The light labels, the cut onion, and the warm orange-red tones of the vegetables form strong accents within the predominantly dark palette. Characteristic is the loose, pronounced brushwork. Especially in the foreground the paint is applied thickly and paste-like, with short, lively strokes in which cream, ocher, brown, green and red are placed side by side and on top of each other. The shapes are not sharply outlined, but emerge from color and paint texture. Signed in the lower right 'Kruysen'. Canvas dimensions about 55 × 40 cm; framed about 67 × 52 × 4 cm. Biography of the artist Antoon Kruysen (Boxtel, 1898 – Chartres, 1977), full name Antonius Petrus Everhardus Kruysen, was a Dutch expressionist painter and the son of painter Jan Kruysen, from whom he received his first lessons. He then studied at the art academy in Rotterdam and studied in Geneva. From the twenties he spent extended periods in France, where modern French painting formed an important context for his development. After a period in the Netherlands he settled again in France in 1947; from 1955 he lived in Chartres. Kruysen's oeuvre includes landscapes, urban and village scenes, figure studies, portraits and still lifes. His painting is characterized by spontaneous, expressionist brushwork, strong color contrasts and a highly material handling of paint. His artistic career is documented in the Netherlands, among others, by the Kruysenhuis in Oirschot.

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