Turtel
Signed and dated lower right, 1988
Watercolour on paper
29,5 x 39,5 cm.
Lilly with corps (nightversion)
Signed and dated 1990, edition 2/14
Lithograph on paper
122 x 80 cm.
Literature: R. Hodel, Erik Andriesse Fast Forward, Nijmegen 2007, p. 51 & 102.
Amaryllis
Unsigned
Woodprint and gouache on silk
30 x 29 cm.
Provenance: Marcel Kalksma (Handmade Prints)
Willem Witsen were a multi-purpose man; he was painter, water-colour trick, draughtsman, etser, writer and photographer.In 1860, was he born in Amsterdam and got its training to the academies of Amsterdam and Antwerp.He had an active share in the movement of eighty, where he touched bevriend with important artists, such as Isaac Israels, Jan Veth and George hendrik Breitner.
Witsen travelled much and lived a number of years in London, where he started with painting sfeervolle, grown still town faces, mostly with snow, miss or rain. He was influenced by the work of Whistler. In the Netherlands he lived including in Ede and dordrecht.