Geer van Velde
1898-1977
Composition: on the beach, ca. 1940
Oil on canvas
81,7 x 99.3 cm.
Signed: lower right 'G.v.V'
Price on request
Provenance: Private collection, The Netherlands; Kunsthandel Simonis & buunk, Ede; Private collection; Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer, Amsterdam.
Geer van Velde as well as his brother Bram started as housepainters in their hometown Lisse near Haarlem, Holland. In 1925 they left for Paris where fauvism and cubism was the style of the day. In these early days of their artistic careers, both Geer and Bram painted colourful, expressionist landscapes, figures and still lifes. Since 1938 Geer van Velde gradually developed the style he became well-known for. Figurism disappeares in favour of well balanced compositions with geometrical abstract forms in grayish subdued, light colours.
