Geheimzinnig treffen (Mysterious encounter) by Willy Boers
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Geheimzinnig treffen (Mysterious encounter) 1948

Willy Boers

InkIndian InkPaper
36 ⨯ 29 cm
ConditionExcellent
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  • About the artwork
    Boers, Willy Herman Friederich ('Willy'); Amsterdam 1905 - 1978 Amsterdam
    Titel; Geheimzinnig treffen (Mysterious encounter), Indian ink on paper
    36,2 x 29,5 cm., signed, dated l.r.: 'Willy Boers, 1948'. verso: Willy Boers 1948, o.i. inkt en 'geheimzinnig treffen'
    Provenance: private collection the Netherlands
    Exhibitions: On loan until 2018, nr. 23 in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, expositie 'Eigen weg' in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, z.j.
    Van Lier Amsterdam nr. 45, 1949, Toonzolder Antwerpen 1955
    Literature: drs. Elmyra H.M. van Doorn; 'Willy Boers 19015 - 1978' V+K Publishing/Inmerc, Naarden 1995, page. 378 (oeuvre catalog)
  • About the artist

    Willy Boers is a Dutch artist who was born in Amsterdam in 1905, he died in Amsterdam in 1978. He was trained as a restorer but became a self-taught painter, draughtsman and sculptor. Willy also created portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, still-lifes and abstract art. He signed his work with ‘WBoers’. He was a member of the Haagse Kunstkring until 1940 and between 1929 and 1941 he joined the art society De Onafhankelijken.

    In 1946 he established, along with Ger Gerrits, the group Vrij Beelden which included the artists Willem van Hussem, Piet Ouborg and Jan Roëde.

    In 1950 he set up the group Creatie. His work is included in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Cobra Museum in Amstelveen.